Last month I had a great time in Houston, Texas to watch the Olympic Trials for both the men's and women's marathon, and then run the next day in the Chevron Houston Marathon.
I ended up with a very good time for me. It was my best marathon time, 3:19:45. It was a Boston Qualifier (3:25:00) and I was very happy to get that out of the way before the heavy toll of 12 marathons in 12 months.
February is a month that I do not have a race. The next event is the Trailbreaker in Waukesha, Wisconsin the last day of March. I will have 5 Marathons in less than 90 days. That is what happens when you take February off.
The 5 races are:
March 31 Trailbreaker Marathon, Waukesha, Wisconsin
April 28 Northern Lake Marathon, Brainerd, Minnesota
May 12 Brookings Marathon, Brookings, South Dakota
May 27 Med City Marathon, Rochester, Minnesota
June 16 Grandma's Marathon, Duluth, Minnesota
Training is going along but I don't feel real motivated. I am struggling in my mind if I am still in recovery mode from my last marathon or am I in build up mode for my next marathon.
So I find myself in the first few miles of my run negotiating with myself about how much to push more miles or less miles.
Ideally, I would like to be running 60-70 miles a week with Monday's off during the 3 build up weeks. But I am more like 40-50 with 2 days off.
Overall my body is healthy but it is tired. To get it moving a bit I did a 7 mile run yesterday and during the first half I incorporated a telephone pole fartlek. (sprint from one telephone pole to the next, then rest jog for a pole, then sprint again and repeat to the end of the road.) Then finished easy.
Today I had a nice run with Bob Timmons. It felt good.
Until next time,
Mike
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