Notes
Good long run this morning. Another one in the books! And early too, done by 8am. Felt pretty good for the most part. Started to feel a little fatigued around 10 miles but not bad. After 11 miles I decided to test that a bit and throw in an up-tempo mile. 6:24 pace and felt fine, same amount of little fatigued before and after. Brought it home for 13. Did a few strides after but I was definitely tired for those, lol.
And I made a running plan yesterday too. It will carry me into April and 60+ mile weeks. I thought of jumping up in mileage next week but decided against it. I should take things slowly and not make exceptions. So next week will be my third of 50mpw, then a down week, then up from there. 3 weeks up, 1 week down progressions. Will help me to settle into the routine also, and make this sustainable. I was also thinking on my run today, you're not really falling behind on the recovery weeks. Because you are "absorbing" the training; well, recovering! Consolidate those gains from the previous weeks and go into the next jump up fresh. Probably the fastest way up overall, because otherwise you'd accumulate too much stress and have setbacks.
So anyways I'm happy with the plan. It will put me in the 60s before any races I care about. First thing I have planned is Soup Kitchen, then Pack, then duathlons, all a month apart. I think once I make the plan for that time period I will figure out what races I'm really doing. Depends on my training goals, what "phase" I'm in, etc. I will probably use the races more as fitness tests than actual goal races for the first month or two. Not sure when I plan on peaking yet. I am willing to put a lot of time into base building, but at the same time at some point I should be giving myself race stimuli. Or at least different pace stimuli like I, T, etc. Will decide when I get there. 60mpw first.