You could also relegate your speed sessions to their own days, twice a weel and run easy the rest of the week. Thereby dropping the intermittent marathon paced miles sprinkled in runs throughout the week that are in addition to the two speed sessions.

 

I know why you are doing them, but the guy who excels at that is on a completely different level.

I have always trained with a high content of MP miles in my training (and have actually been criticized for training too fast too often...), but I never do more than one speed workout a week (outside of simple strides, hills and MP miles). Two would just kill me.

 

If by "honest", you mean "idiotic", then I will agree with you.

Damn.

Go ahead and kick yourself but you have a lot going on outside of running, so I can see how that happened.

There is no way really to paint it in a positive light, it's just one of those things that happens.

It happened to me once and I can tell you this, it will never happen again.

 Two would just kill me.

You know? I do not know how many he is doing now that you mention it. Two speed and one long is what I assumed but you are right, not everyone does that.

I didn't run this morning, I woke up feeling "blah" and just the idea of going out in the warm and humid yuckiness had me wanting to go back to sleep

I did go to the gym though, for an hour on Biceps, Triceps and Chest.

My sweet girl is gone. Watched her try to play earlier this morning and then she really struggled to catch her breath, had to sit up. I'm going to miss her a ton, but I'm glad I didn't wait for her to get any worse. She left peacefully with me petting her and looking into her eyes.

Need to eat something and then I'm going to go run some trails to clear my head.

AC is repaired, under warranty or the maintenance plan, so no cost.  6.8 very rough miles. I stopped at a gas station for Gatorade after 4.5 cause I was beat.

DaveP, nice AG win. Getting to a race late is my nightmare.

Lauren,  RIP kitty. Hope the run can help clear your mind, the run I took after we put our dog really did that.

LRB, hope you found a restroom or a tree. Or if you resorted to a Gatorade bottle, you did not share that with the runners.

 

I have a question regarding the 25-30% MP content of our weekly mileage: are we supposed to run them at what we "hope" our MP will be in 18 weeks, or at what it would be today if we ran a marathon? Because I'd really like to run a 3:25 next October, but I'm only running MP miles for a 3:30 finish time at the moment, because I feel that's where my physical condition really is at now. As it improves over the next few weeks, I will adjust the pace in consequence. Is it possible that you're running your MP miles too fast at this point in the cycle?

 

I'm confused about all this. Maybe Jay could help with an answer... And don't worry about the group. They are runners, they will understand... You can always go back to them later.

 

Congrats on another high mileage week!

Since I don't run on a treadmill, the paces I run at don't need to be dialed in. The way I see it, there is the McMillan equivalent MP, and the MP I more realistically expect to hold. Those are my training MP miles limits. If I'm running faster than McMillan MP, I slow down, and if I run slower than the MP I expect to hold, I go faster.

I don't consider MP running as speed running. To me, speed is Daniels' Threshold pace and faster. But MP running is harder than Easy paced running. So my body probably feels it, even though it's not really speed running. Sigh. There is always something.