Well, I'm slightly out of order this week. I'll normally do my long runs on Saturday, but since we'll be on a plane tomorrow morning (to Hawaii!), I thought I'd knock it out on my day off today. I'll fit in another cross training workout at the hotel this weekend.
Anyway, Key Run #3 this week was scheduled to be 8 miles at Planned Marathon Pace (PMP) + 30 seconds. My current PMP is 9:52, so I should have run this is 10:22.
I ran it in 10:03. Oops? I'm a little confused by this whole long run thing. The 10:03 pace for me was pretty easy and laid back. Why would I want to go even slower? How does that help my training?
I am also not yet a believer in these pace charts. I have never been fast no matter what the distance. But it turns out I am pretty good at churning out a steady pace for miles. So who's to say that even though I run a slow 5k I can't run a faster marathon than predicted. (Well, probably not at Big Sur.) Anyway, I guess I should just trust the experts.
I had planned to head out to new grounds today, but out of laziness I just went through Golden Gate Park again. Lovely run. And even though I usually dread the upping of the long run mileage every week, since I had just run 6 miles on Wednesday, partly at tempo pace, 8 easy miles didn't scare me in the least. And it was pretty easy - hooray!
Total Week 1 Mileage: 18.5
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