Training Update: Progress Continues
The running has continued moving in the right direction since my last update. I'm consistently running 5 days per week. I just completed my first 30-mile week of the year and also my longest run (11 miles). I'm on a streak of 20 miles or more per week for 19 consecutive weeks. I have recently gone to a pattern of two "hard" weeks followed by one rest week. I did 13 "strider" workouts (really 30-second intervals) over 11 weeks and worked some of the repeats to faster than 6 min/mile (10 mph) pace. My peak paces on some of those repeats were around 5 min/mile. I don't have blazing sprint speed (by any stretch of the imagination), but I'm quite pleased with the improvement in my stride at faster speeds. Now I've just started a new training phase with a focus on hill work (and some additional work on speed as well...some longer "R" repeats to use Jack Daniels' terminology). This is in preparation for future training...I like to do maxV