2016 Training Log : 10/10 - 10/16

Quality: 12 mile long run on Sunday.

Trail: N/A

Easy: 6 runs for 28 miles.

Cycling: N/A

Total:  7 runs for 40 miles.

This week brought on a mid week trip to NE Mississippi for work. When I'm on these trips solo I usually have no problem getting in my normal volume. When I travel with others, however, I'm always cutting runs short so they're not waiting on me. It always becomes a stressful thing that I don't enjoy very much. A lot of this stress would be alleviated if my lazy butt would get up early to knock these runs out.

I did luck out in finding a park very close to the hotel that had some offroad trails along with the paved variety. I ended up doing all of my runs here with my only complaint being that there wasn't more to it. Each "loop" was only about 3 miles long, but it sure beat banging the miles out on a treadmill. I'm going to have to figure out a solution for travelling as I don't have any solo trips coming up soon.

With my long run on Sunday I actually hit a 20 day run streak. I've toyed with streaking off & on with my longest being 251 days. During that streak was probably the best shape I've been in so I've thought about bringing the streak back. There will be a lot of starts to it before it sticks, especially with my busy travel schedule coming up. Hopefully once the streak gets going it will make it easier to get motivated for the shorter easy days. The only reason the last streak got broken was from a car accident on the way to run. I still wanted to put in at least a mile but I'm pretty sure that would have resulted in a divorce.

Next week brings a trip to Denver, CO. I couldn't be more excited about the opportunity to get up into the mountains. One of the few places I'd live outside of Kentucky.

2016 Training Log : 10/3 - 10/9

Quality: 10 mile long run on Sunday at Legacy Trail.

Trail: N/A

Easy: 6 runs for 17 miles.

Cycling: N/A

Total:  7 runs for 27 miles.

Disney vacations are usually where training plans go out the window. Usually there just isn't enough time to get in any kind of run & with the amount of walking it might even be detrimental. In the past I've always tried to maintain a normal volume, with some super early wake ups. This always had me leaving the vacation wishing for another one immediately after. This time I decided to just run whatever I felt like & had time for.

This resulted in mostly 2 & 3 mile runs in the mornings before heading to the park. Thankfully I was able to get out every day, even if it was just for 20 minutes. I figured the extra 4-6 miles of walking each day would more than make up for any loss of volume.

We ended up leaving a day early due to the hurricane & drove the ~14 hours straight back home. Even after being in a car that long & getting home at 4am I was able to wake up the next day & get in a 3 mile effort. Sunday saw a slight return to normal with a 10 mile long run at Legacy Trail. Unfortunately my travel schedule only picks up from here on out so running with any kind of consistency is going to be a challenge.

2016 Training Log : 9/26 - 10/2

Quality: N/A

Trail: N/A

Easy: 7 runs for 23 miles.

Cycling: N/A

Total:  7 runs for 23 miles.

The original intent for this week was to just take the whole week off to recover from the 100k before going into a short ramp up for the Rough 50k. Due to my failed attempt at the 100k distance, only making it ~64km, I decided to just go with a reverse taper of sorts. Nothing extreme just a bunch of 2, 3 & 4 mile runs.

My legs were definitely screaming at me for the first part of the week but seemed to quiet down by the end. Hopefully this sped up the recovery process instead of hindering it. With a trip to Disney next week, which entails a ton of walking, I plan to keep the running easy & just do what I feel like each morning.

Not Yo Momma's 100k - September 24, 2016

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