New High Mileage Month, and Steady Training

Welcome everyone ! This week (May 27 - June 2, 2012) contained the Patriot Half Marathon that I reviewed on my last post, as well as just some "normal" training runs. The temperatures have remained largely in the low to mid 70's during this week, and Saturday was relatively light since I planned a long run for early Sunday morning.

The soreness / stiffness in my knees has continued, most especially when I either have a hard effort, or have 2-3 days in a row. I've been either taking a rest day from anything involving my legs, or doing a gentle bike ride the following day when that occurs, and that has worked thus far. The balancing act continues.

While this last week's mileage wasn't anything spectacular (although I have managed to keep my running mileage in the 30+ mpw range and have for the last 5 weeks in a row, and 7 out of the last 9), I did manage to blow my previous high-water mark for monthly mileage completely out of the water, taking it from 129.6 miles (April 2012), to 157.35 miles for May !!!

Of course, setting another high-water mark like that probably won't occur for a bit, but it was fun to pass the 150 mile mark without feeling like I was going out of my way or risking injury to do so. :-)


Here is what last week looked like...

Day	Activity	Distance (in miles)	Avg. Heart Rate	Max Heart Rate
Sunday	Cycling	21.01	---	---
Monday	Running	13.14	---	---
Tuesday	Rest Day	----	---	---
Wednesday	Running	6.08	150	168
Thursday	Running	6.39	143	155
Friday	Running	8.42	143	154
Saturday	Cycling	21.20	102	133
	Running	1.21	134	150

 These are my time and distance totals for the week:

Activity	Time Total	Distance Total (in miles)
Running	5:08:19	35.24
Cycling	2:55:39	42.21
--------------	--------------	--------------
Overall Total	8:03:58	77.45

Day	Activity	Sets	Reps	Recovery Interval
Sunday	Rest Day	---	---	---
Monday	Rest Day	---	---	---
Tuesday	Rest Day	---	---	---
Wednesday	Pullups	5	8	5:00
Thursday	Dips	8	10	3:00
Friday	Situps	1	25	----
Saturday	Pullups	1	13	----
	Situps	1	50	----

Even though it didn't really feel like it, I had a pretty light week of cross training this last week. At least I've managed to start slowly working back in some ab-specific work, even though it is situps. Of all the ab-specific exercises, these are (in my opinion) the least focused on the abdominals, but it is a part of this month's challenge so I'll stick with these and see where I end up this month.


Happy Running Everyone !!!