I've exercised poetic license in the title of this post to describe, as accurately and succinctly as possible, how my past week of training has gone. I struggled through nearly every run, feeling good (and performing well) on only one of them. I blame myself for an ill-advised 34-mile cycling excursion last Sunday afternoon and then forcing myself to stick to my planned 10-miler the following morning when a shorter recovery run would've been better advised. I never really recovered from that, ending my week with a botched 22-mile long run that ended up being more like 21.25 miles, where I bonked shortly after mile 16 and ended up walking large portions at the end. As a result, I've scrapped today's 5-mile recovery. Lesson learned. Moving on.
Training Recap
Here's the obligatory summary of the week's activities:
| EXERCISE | TOTAL
MILES | TOTAL
CALORIE BURN |
Running
four runs and one simulated run, including a long run of 21.25 miles (estimated, due to my Garmin messing up), two 10-mile runs, one 5-mile recovery (on the Arc Trainer), and seven 0.45-mile hill repeats (four uphills and three downhills) that, with warm-up, recovery, and cool-down, totaled 9 miles | 55.25 | 4,764 |
Other
one spinning class for 46 minutes | N/A | 482 |
| TOTALS: | 55.25 | 5,246 |
I've now logged just over 745 miles of running since I started training for Boston. (That's a lot of mileage, so maybe I was due for a bad week anyway.) Interestingly enough, my estimated total training mileage closely approximates the 920-mile distance, as the crow flies, between my home city (Evansville, Indiana) and Boston. I've started tracking where I am on this "virtual run", and I would currently be about four miles Northeast of Ellenville, New York. (See point "B" on the map above.) Barring the unforseen, I should roll into Boston in my final week of training. Pretty cool!
Fundraising Update
Thanks to contributions from Brandy Houchin, Nick Braun, and Evelyn Brady, my fundraising total has risen to $1,828. This puts me at 56 percent of the fundraising minimum that I
must come up with. Put in the context of my virtual journey from Evansville to Boston, my fundraising progress would put me over 225 miles behind my running progress. (The money's in Coalport, Pennsylvania.) With only five weeks left, there's some serious catching up to do!
This Week's "Title Track"
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