Week 6

Week 6


Another week come and gone. My dad and I did our 16k on Monday because it was Family Day so it worked better for my dad's schedule. However, because of this the rest of my running schedule got shifted around a bit. I only actually ran my 6k tempo and the 8k steady with my dad (which was only 5k because of time constraints). An unexpected blizzard cancelled my 10k tempo so I swam instead. The off week allowed me to rest up a bit and since this coincided with my reading week I caught up on a bunch of sleep :)

This morning dad and I did 19k, and it was a gorgeous day for a run, as was last week- but I think we both felt better this week. While it was great run, I didn't sleep well last night and the distance has jumped up enough that I could feel the effects on my body after the run- sore legs, tiredness, hunger, some bruises and blisters appearing on my feet- stuff that hasn't appeared so far this season. But I expect I will get very familiar with being sore now. The distances are jumping up quickly. We do 23k next week, then 26, drop down for a week (and do 19k), then we're in the meat of it- 29k, 32k, 29k, and then everything starts to drop down again for the taper.

Good news though- we (and by we I mean my father) found 2 bibs on craig's list for Around the Bay at the end of March, which we had originally planned on doing as a training run as it lands on the weekend we are supposed to do a 29k run, but we didn't register in time, so we gave up hope.
If this works out, it will be exciting to run Around the Bay, even if we just use it as a training run, so we'll probably be the last ones in, but that's okay :)