Training in Montana

I'm not sure how sustainable my current training plan is. It's 2 months out from the marathon and the mileage is feeling burdensome. I'll do my best and we'll see how I can modify it. I modified today's run as the plan called for 9 but I needed more sleep than that. I considered ditching the run entirely but finally rolled out of bed to do 6.

6 TM miles while watching women's figure skating and snowboarding slopestyle. That 15 year old Russian figure skater was amazing. If you get a chance to watch her, it's worth it. Her style, expression, and athleticism were very moving. And the slopestyle is just a blast to watch.

4 TM miles at the gym at lunch. Got a TM next to a fan, so I had a nice breeze on me the entire time. Progressive 6, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5, 8.0. Amazed at how much my leg speed has improved over the past couple months. I wasn't breathing very hard at 8.0 and a while back that would have been a stretch workout.

After 2 straight weeks of sub-freezing temperatures, and most of the time having below zero windchill, we finally hit above 32 and the 10 day forecast is all above freezing during the day. Looking forward to this snow melting and doing more outdoor running.

Yassooooooo!!!!! I ran on the TM at the Y so I couldn't yell that out loud this morning. Did 6 X 800s this morning in a Yasso-prescribed pace of 6:30, but actually 6:27 on the TM at 9.3 mph. They were much easier than the last ones I did, the first half of which were uphill. Not sure how well TM Yassos prepare one for a road race, but it will have to do. Warmed up 1 mile, then started the 800s, .25 cool down in between (walked for .10, then jogged at 10:00 pace for .15). Cooled down with 3/4 of a mile.

The schedule called for a half marathon today, so planned rest days on Thursday and Friday. I got up this morning planning on running a half marathon effort, headed down to the Y after dropping off my son for a Boy Scout merit badge day, and I did not feel it. I was so tired. My work is one block away, so I went to my work and laid down on the couch and took a 90 minute nap before I needed to head off to coach a basketball game. I was not feeling well and it felt so good to lay down. After the little girl's basketball game I headed back to the Y to shower, then went back to my work to lay down again before my 9th grade son's basketball game. The long & short is that it was a wise move to not run as I felt worse all day.