Training in Montana

Snowed 4-5" last night so did my run on the TM this morning at home. Tired and sore legs from Saturday's run so I almost slept in today and skipped the run entirely, but I couldn't do that. I need these last few good runs.

Warmup for 1/2 mile, then most miles at 7.0/8:34 pace. Last two miles I needed to hurry so bumped to 8.0/7:30 and held it. My tired legs wanted to stop but they were just being lazy and it wasn't hard to continue on. Sweatfest, however.

Taper on! I love tapering. My tired legs love the taper.

Muddy roads outside so treadmill at home. Legs were tired but not too bad. Fastest paces hit were 7.5 at the end.

6 X hills on the home treadmill. Roads outside still muddy and nasty and my hill is 2 miles away. I'm still tired from my weekend run, so didn't want to wake up early enough to get to my hill. This is the 3rd 20 miler of this training cycle and I know realize that the long effort wears me out for most of the next week. It's probably my age more than anything.

1 mile warmup at 10:00 pace, then 1/2 mile hills. 7 mph/9% incline for the first quarter, but that was a bit much. Walked 1/2 mile at 4 mph and 0%, then 7 mph/8% for the remaining hills. On one of them I forgot my math and I should've been done at .25 miles but my addled brain continued on and when I got to .35 and my legs were dying I realized I had gone too far.

Looking forward to April 19th. I'm ready to get this marathon behind me and return to a more normal schedule.

I am fatigued and I don't know what's going on. I got good sleep the last two nights, no run on Thursday, and I just couldn't do it this morning. Meant to do 4 pace miles, so warmed up with a 10 minute mile then upped the TM to 7:24 pace and the first mile was so tough. Like running in concrete. After 1 mile I slowed the TM to walking pace and walked for 1/4 mile, then back to MP and it was still tough. I figured my body is really tired and no sense pushing it 2 weeks from the race so I threw in the towel. Packed it in. Got on my bike and went home. Quit. Hmph.

I'm pretty sure I'm not fighting a sickness so I'm baffled at feeling this tired in the middle of a low mileage week. Hopefully I get some good rest this weekend and feel better Monday as today's run was definitely not a confidence booster.

Thanks to Camille Herron's blog about heavy legs during tapering I stopped feeling sorry for myself and my fatigued heavy legs and went for my run. I told my wife last night that I needed to test out my birthday present so I charged up my new garmin 110 and used it on this run. Ah... so nice to once again know my pace as I run. Went up my Veyo hill and I felt great. Not sure my total pace up that hill but I think that mile was 8:40 or so. Awesome. 

Average pace for entire run was 8:05. Last half were in MP range. This is the confidence booster I needed. 

8:53, 8:42, 8:28, 8:37 (241 ft incline), 8:55, 8:30, 8:42, 7:29, 7:04, 7:13, 7:31 (114 ft up), 7:18, 7:18.