With 7 weeks of training between now and the Berlin Marathon I could not be more excited. This training recap is my first one dedicated to Berlin! The triathlon is over so now all my focus is on preparing my body to meet or exceed my pace goals on September 28th. After a lapse in training during vacation I came back to Geneva last week ready to put in the effort. My body thanked me for the break and responded with strong splits during every run. Last week was, dare I say it, perfect week of training. I slept at least 7 hours each night, I practiced yoga once, I got back in the habit of doing weights and core work, I logged each of my runs, and I ate well. Here’s a run down of what workouts made last week so successful!
Monday: Sweet, beautiful rest day including 10 hours of sleep!
Tuesday:
Morning: This week’s speed intervals were longer than normal but I felt strong during the entire workout! 1 mile warm-up, 2×1600 (7:43, 7:48), 2×800 (7:48, 7:41), followed by a 1 mile cool down.
Evening: 2 hours of intense power yoga including 8 crow poses!
Wednesday: I knew I wanted to do some weights at home but couldn’t settle on one workout. After skimming my Pinterest workout board I ended up doing 1 round of Julie’s 30 minute living room workout and two rounds of my favorite 5 minute strength workout!
Thursday: In between hospital visits and a few work conference calls, Anne helped take my mind off Bo’s surgery through ALL the workouts! We started the day with an early morning 6 mile tempo run including 4 sub 9 miles. We had so much fun chatting and catching up that the run flew by and before I knew it we were at our turn around point! The weather was so nice, that we biked 14 miles through Geneva to enjoy some sightseeing and mountain views! By the end of the day, between walking to the hospital and around town we logged 3 miles of walking too!
Friday: I woke up feeling like I’d been hit by a truck after all our activity the previous day. This called for an active rest day including 3 miles of walking, foam rolling and some evening stretching.
Saturday: A near perfect, strong 15 mile long run.
Sunday: I spent most of the day cleaning the house, taking care of Bo and catching up on work. Around 5 I was super antsy since I hadn’t left the house so I did 30 minutes of random weights and core exercises including lots of pushups, planks, dips, and arm exercises.
I feel really confident about the next few weeks of training as we don’t have any travel planned due to Bo’s surgery. While work is going to be pretty busy I have no excuses for missing workouts.
It must have felt especially good to finish 15 miles on Saturday after feeling so bad the day before. Looks like a great week of training for your upcoming marathon – similar to the way I train with biking and other exercises, too.
Yes it did Tina! Also each week I go into my long run unsure what to expect since I’m using a different plan this year but so far so good! Now I just need to keep the strength training up for the next 7 weeks! 🙂
Yes to smashing your 15 mile long run! It seems like running less and making it more worthwhile is working better for both of us!
Amen Charlie! I am really loving running less this time around. Fingers crossed it works come Sept 28!
There really is something to be said about dedicated rest days!
Hope Bo is doing well!