Well, I did it, I finished my first week of training for the Zumbro Endurance Race 100 mile. This was my first week of training under Jake Hegge from Trail Transformation and it was a good one. Here's a little recap of things.
Monday: REST. This was normal for me, I have been taking Mondays off since beginning training for Wild Duluth.
Tuesday: Hill day! Tuesday's assignment was 20 minute warm up, then 10x 1 minute hill repeats with recovery just being what it took to go back down at easy effort, and a 20 minute cool down. Workout felt good, Those 1 minute repeats were deceptive. The first few felt almost too easy, but the ones near the end really hammered me. Also, I was dumb, misread the schedule and only did a 10 minute cool down... I really need to read better.
Wednesday: Wednesday was trail day. Assignment was 60 minutes trail running at easy pace. I headed to Giant's Ridge and went up, over, and back, on the snowshoe trails. It was a great run.
Thursday: REST. Ugh, really? Another rest day? I'm used to 6 days a week.... trust the process, this is why you hired a coach....
Friday: Another trail run day, and another up and over. This time I had the nice addition of the temp being -6F (-21C). Run still felt good, and I actually felt slightly overdressed.
Saturday: Cruise Intervals. Saturday is now my speed work day. I ran my 20 minute warm up and got down to business. The assignment was 3x 1 Mile Cruise intervals at 7:20 pace, with 2 minute recovery. Again, I misread the schedule... I thought it was supposed to be 7:30 intervals.... Oh well, interval splits were 7:25, 7:27, 7:28 so, within 10 seconds of the real goal. Followed the intervals up with a 10 minute cool down.
Sunday: Final run of the week. Assignment for Sunday was a trail run of 90 minutes. I ended up getting in 6.3 miles in 90 minutes, for an average pace of 14:02. I'm not breaking any speed records but, considering that mile 5 took me 20 minutes, I'm not going to complain. The downhills really helped me make up time.
Total distance: 27 miles
Total Time on Feet: 5:21:41
Mileage is lower than 'I've been at, but the quality of the workouts is amazing. I keep reminding myself, Quality beats out Quantity. It's still early on in my training cycle, My mileage will go up, I just have to allow myself to ease into the higher intensity that Jake has me doing. I just tell myself to rrust the system and keep pounding the trails.
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