DD has a slight fever and stomach ache so I am watching her while DW and DS are at church.  I will have to get my 17 done this afternoon.

Temps will be in the high 30s to low 40s so it will be interesting on how I choose to dress.  I know during a race I would be in shorts and a singlet but, training paces would make that a little cold.  Lightweight tights and a light longsleeve shirt?

Once I am on the road I cant drop anything off anywhere.

Sprinkles - We are soooooo opposite when it comes to caloric intake.  Yesterday I drank about 7 bottles of water and ate 3 servings of brown rice with either fish or mediterrainian veggie patties, a big bowl of udon noodles with spinach and pork loin, a slice of lemon bread, an orange, and some Belvita crackers.  I eat like this and maintain weight during higher mileage weeks.

I do hope that you get to feeling more energetic and find a way to keep yourself fueled for the mileage.  To quote Pfitz ,"the program is designed to make you tired".  That being the case, anything you can do to stay ahead of getting tired seems critical.

Amik - Good attitude, and way to push through the negatives.  You are practicing mental toughness without even realizing it!  The worst of times in training make you stronger in races.  Put the mental strength days in your memory bank and pull them up when you need them during a race.  When I passed mile 22 at Indianapolis, the first thought I had was "youve got this".  That thought was generated by comparing how I felt to training runs and how I felt at mile 22 (miserable) during my first marathon.  It took about 2 seconds for me to gather information and tell myself the race was in the bag.

Onemile - You are Kicking Ass!

Docket - What race was this.  I am glad you are feeling better this morning.

Ami and Onemile- Thanks for the encouragement- I feel a LOT better today- I enjoyed some ice cream last night and a nice piece of chocolate bread with pb this morning and ran fine.

Indiana - I have a pretty fast metabolic rate too, and I'm not underweight or anything - the first thing to fall off the wagon for me when I'm busy is properly eating for marathon training - that's why I work with the sports RD.  i LOVE rice and Udon though - you have excellent taste in food

Cbus- I definitely have no elevated heartrate issues, so I think I'm fine- I just needed extra sleep.  I'm keeping the mileage a little lower than Pfitz recommends- this week was 47 prescribed, I did 41 - its hard for me to get there with work and such, so I'll deal.

13.1 marathon pace miles today.  I crossed the tape at 1:50, but don't know what my actual net time was- I guess I will find out- my watch says 1:56 but I did 0.6 mi warmup before the race.  Splits were pretty solid- Central Park is good and hilly, so they tend to vary a lot.  All in all nice race and good team support.  I ran the first few mi with a teammate but took off after that - I'm a really good hill runner and like to really take them by storm on training runs.

Sprinkles - those are some long work hours ! hang in there though. Nice job on the HM. It sounds like your plan is working even with work/life balance stuff going on in the short term

One Mile - nice job on the 10 miler !  PS - stop sending snow over here 

Banshee - are you still listening to 5 finger Death Punch for your runs - lol ! don't get me started on motivational songs - i may have to open a new thread on that ! lol

Indy - left you a post on the Pfitz post. Hope you're feeling better

For me - I did my weekly 10 miler - I also finally signed up for my fall race and getting my plans together for ramping up

Great job, Sprinkles!

If you are under settings and manage my activities, click on the run activity.  This will bring up more options and you can add different workout types.

Can someone please tell me how to customize the "run" activity to add a workout like "treadmill" ? I see in the setting you can add another activity "run/bike/walk" but i can't find where you can modify the type

 

thanks for any help !

You're welcome!  Someone had to show me last week!

Hey all,

Got in 12 miles @ 8:57, and it was brutal. But that gives me 50 for the week. I'm kinda curious if I could run a marathon @ 9:08 pace on this plan. Even though my LR tops out at 12, I'm only 5 short of someone on Pfitz 55 for the week.

Sprink and Indi, great runs.

Onemile, the LR at a slightly faster pace has been tough. The LR definitely feels like a long workout rather than a long easy run.

Hi everyone!  You guys get so talkative when I'm not around and I have trouble catching up!

Cbus, Sprinkles, and Indi: Nice runs today Also, Sprinkles, I hear you on the nutrition issues when you're training.  I was there when I started training Pfitz.  You'll strike the balance eventually.

14 for me today, 8:43 pace overall.  Awful headwind for about the last 4 miles.  Getting excited for Shamrock.