Previous weeks of 50KM training:
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Another week in the books! I am cutting back again this week and aiming for 25 – 30 miles (crazy that’s a cutback week for me) and then I will build for two more weeks before TAPER is here. Wow, that is nuts!
Monday – REST
A much-needed rest day that also included a much needed massage! She spent the entire hour on my legs and it was heavenly. I am getting another one four days before the race!
Tuesday – 55 minute run (4 miles / 6.4 km) + 75-minute flow yoga class
Normal Tuesday trail loop and my favourite yoga class after work! I was finally getting back into my groove with yoga last week (went twice over four days) and then this stupid heat wave hit and the last place I want to be is the hot yoga studio. Anyways, I had an AMAZING class last Tuesday night and it really showed me how much strength I lost taking all that time off. I’m going to try and go at least once a week until the heat wave passes and then up it to twice because I know how beneficial it is for my running!
Wednesday – 2 hours, 30 minute run (11 miles / 18 km)
Big post work run! I felt pretty crappy on this run. I did not eat properly during the day to fuel for such a long evening run and I crashed close to the end. Thank god Carmine had an extra granola bar to share with me or they probably would have had to drag me the last couple of km.
Thursday – 15 minute strength workout
Despite my huge run on Wednesday evening I woke up with the urge to sweat on Thursday morning so I did a quick upper body workout from my Nike Training Club App. It involved lots of push-ups!
Friday – 2 hours, 10 minutes run (~9.3 miles / 15 km)
A gorgeous run to the Norvan Falls in Lynn Valley with Solana!
Saturday – 3 hour run (~10 miles / 16 km)
An extremely hilly and technical run on the Diez Vistas loop in the Port Moody area. I didn’t really touch on this in my recap yesterday because I had so much to talk about but I LOVED the technical up and downhill. The first couple of hours of this run FLEW by for me because I was so focused on my foot placement and not tripping over a rock or root. Despite how insanely hilly it was it was actually the last part of this run, which was a couple of rolling hills km around a lake, that was the most difficult for me and I think it was more a mental game. It just seemed to go on and on and on. But the hilly technical stuff flew by!
Sunday – REST!
Driving back from Vancouver and then wedding festivities on Sunday!
Totals:
Miles / Km – 34.3 miles / 55.2 km
Miles / km to date – 391 miles / 629.16 km
Time on my feet – 8 hours, 40 minutes
Elevation Gain – 8,194 feet
Yoga – 1 practice for a total of 75 minutes
Strength Training – 1 workout for a total of 15 minutes
Chloe’s Miles/km – 15 miles / 24.1 km
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A solid week of training. I only ran four times last week instead of the five or six runs I’ve been logging a week, however 3 out of 4 of those runs were 2+ hours long. Saturday’s run was actually 3.5 hours total with breaks for eating and regrouping. Also for 8 hours, 40 minutes of running my mileage is fairly low and I’m just trying not to let that discourage me because I’m right on track with the time on my feet that my plan calls for.
Solana (who is an epic trail runner that I totally look up to!) said I did really well on the trails she took me on this past weekend and that made me feel way better about my training and made me realize that all my hard work IS paying off. I am getting stronger and I was able to hold my own on the hilly, technical trails I saw in Vancouver last weekend – which will be much more similar to Squamish than the trails I train on at home.
Six weeks to go. It’s crunch time!
