14 March - Sessions 56-61

2057 PDT - So far I have failed at doing better with the daily updates! In my own defense, I am on travel attending a school in beautiful Pt Hueneme, California. I have been busier than anticipated and at the end of the day, the blog updates aren't a priority. It took several days to get over the jet lag too, which didn't help.

I have kept training though. Good thing Monday (7 March) was a rest day. After traveling all day to California, Monday was a much needed rest day.

Not much to say about my training runs this past week. You can look at the data. My interval day on Thursday was tough. Like usual I misjudged my warm up distance and the distance I would cover while doing the intervals, so I ended up doing almost 8 miles instead of the prescribed 6. Also on one of the intervals I miscounted the laps and did an extra 400m. It was good though. I was surprised I averaged less than 6 minute miles on fast portions. Wow!

I did modify my SnC routines though. As part of the class I am taking, we do PT twice a week. This week we did a body conditioning class on Tuesday and some kind of workout in the pool on Thursday, so I skipped the Wednesday SnC session. I went to the gym Friday as usual, but there was no TRX so I modified the routine a bit. I still had a good workout I think.

My calves have been bothering me quite a bit this week. I felt like I needed an extra rest day prior to my LSD on Sunday (more on that later) so I skipped Saturday's workout. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I am a little concerned. They haven't been too bad today as I write this (14 March), so we'll see how this week goes.


Edinburgh Marathon Training Session 57
Edinburgh Marathon Training Session 58
Edinburgh Marathon Training Session 59