Another cell phone photo of Clement Park. BUT, you will note that some of the lake is actually thawing! I ran last night after work, my least favorite time to run, because it was supposed to snow today. But alas, the sun is shining today. I hope the weather will be nice tomorrow because I need to get a long run in. I ran only 13.44 miles this week. 4 miles on Monday, 2.08 miles on Tuesday, 3.10 miles on Thursday, and 4.25 on Friday. My times are abysmal. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I am certain there is something wrong because instead of improving, my fitness seems to be declining.
One encouraging note... I have the Nike + iPod gadget, which gets me signed on for all of the wonderful functionality of Nikeplus.com. Part of that is a leaderboard for each age group. In women 55 to 59 years old, I am now in 9th place in terms of total mileage. It really meant a lot to me to break the top ten.
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If it's any comfort to you, my training schedule had me running the least number of miles last week of the entire 14-week program – four days of four miles each. Perhaps your body intuitively knew that you were supposed to cut back a bit before the next few weeks of sustained effort.
Congrats on 9th! Thanks for stopping by. Yes it was awesome to run for 2 hours.
I know some people like to run every day but I like to have at least one day's rest in between my runs. When I was training for the half marathon I ran 4 times a week which did call for two consecutive days, but I always had a rest day before my long run.
After the half marathon I cut back to 3 times a week, two middle distance runs with one long run at the weekend, with no obvious bad effects so I guess 3 times a week is enough for me.
Everybody is different and you have to listen to your own body. 3 quality runs may be better than 4-5 runs that leave you feeling not so good.
Well done on your 9th place!
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