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Week #9, January 22-28

M OFF
T Ran 3.76 miles
W Did not run
TH Ran 2.52 miles
F Ran 3.81 miles
S Ran 8.98 miles
S OFF

Tuesday’s run was done early in the morning.  The temperature was in the low 30s but it didn’t feel too cold.  There was some snow coming down so I was extra careful to as not to fall.

My students were coughing and sneezing early in the week and I ended up with a cold.  On Wednesday I was feeling horrible and couldn’t wait to get home.  Once home I kept taking medicine with Emergen-C and went to bed early.  I missed my quality session workout but did one on Saturday.

I ordered a new headlamp (Black Diamond Storm) from Amazon and received it on Wednesday.  I got a chance to use it during Thursday’s run.  It is bright and I love it!

I had plans after school on Friday so I did my run in the morning.  A 5am wake up call to get this done.  I felt great!  It was in the high 30s and I did get warm on this run.

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I was a bit nervous about my quality session run on Saturday.  I had to do a 5 mile warmup, 2 x 10 minute intervals @10:45 pace with 3 minutes recovery then 1 x 5 minute interval @10:02 pace and then a 15 minute cooldown.  I was afraid that I wasn’t going to hit the paces.  It was sunny and a perfect day for a run.  I hit all of my paces!  I was so happy (and almost cried) when I saw my stats (10:34; 10:35; 9:47).  I’ve never done a 5 mile warmup and was actually kind of bored with it but I simply took my time and enjoyed the warm weather.  Oh, and I noticed this at the end of my workout but my run ended at 8.98 miles.  If I would have seen this before, I would have kept on running to make it out to an even 9 miles.  

Another great week of marathon training.  My run on Saturday gave me a MAJOR confidence boost and that was exactly was I needed during this marathon training.  I cannot believe that the Illinois Marathon is in 3 months!!

Total mileage for the week: 19.08
Total mileage for this training cycle: 158.36
Total mileage for the year: 79.57

Here’s how training has gone so far:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8

How was YOUR week?  Have you been doing your runs inside or outside?

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12 Comments on Illinois Marathon Training Recap, Week 9

  1. Congrats on another great week of training! It seems like everyone is sick now, especially children. So sorry that you got a cold 🙁 Hope that you are feeling better now.

    • Thank you. Can you believe that I got sick again? I thought I was better but Sunday evening I started sneezing and coughing again. No bueno.

  2. My runs are a mixture of inside & outside.

    5 mile warmup? I’d probably like it. 🙂 It really takes me a couple of miles to warm up anyway. And I love hitting the paces! Great week!

    • Thank you! I just thought it was weird because I’ve never had to do one that long. So in a way it was pleasant.

  3. Great job with your runs this week! That would drive my crazy to end a run at .98 but what counts is that you hit all your paces!!

    • Thanks! It drove me crazy when I saw those numbers. But then I realized that regardless I still had a great run! 🙂

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