I'm bringing workouts back
Happy New Year to all easy gait lurkers! I hope everyone has a healthy, mileage filled year full of PRs.
Saturday marked the start of the Boston Marathon training for me. I did a pretty easy ladder in the ARWR around the 8 mile loop. After a 15 minute warm-up I went straight into the 1,2,3,4,3,2,1 intervals at 5 minute/mile effort. 1 min rest in between the intervals. Felt very good. I have no idea if I was running 5 min pace or not but it was just a get the legs going type of workout anyway. Saturday evening I did a 5 mile shake-out on the ARWR trails. After the workout I drove into BU to watch my wife and other NB boston club runners race at the mini meet. She ran a great 3k for her in 10:07. You can see her head here behind allison and emily.
Sunday was relatively quiet long run. With Christy Mae for the first 10 and then I ran the last 6 alone through memorial forest and the assabet river cinder road. 1:50:10 which was my longest run in a while. Felt very comfortable, much more so than my first long runs for the fall marathon. I then watched the Pats beat the titans in one of slowest, most difficult to watch, football games of all time. They cemented their 4th seed for the playoffs and will face off against the J-E-T-S jets jets jets at 1:00 pm on Sunday. Let's hope it works out better for the Pats this time around than the last time the Jets came to Foxborough.
Today was an easy six in sudbury state forest in the am and the lake boone road loop in the evening with christy mae.
Tomorrow is the first track workout for me on the boards at Reggie. Should be interesting to see how the legs will respond.
That's all I got.