Week 5 - MCM Training...

This past weekend I was up visiting family in Derry, NH. It was FUN, as always! My cousin and her husband are just hilarious! Saturday we went down to Salisbury Beach, MA so I could get a couple of slices of my most favorite pizza at Tripoli and we did a little walking on the beach. And per my mom's wishes spread some of her ashes there. We also did this in Ocean City, MD last year. It was nice to be able to do that. Afterwards we headed to Portsmouth, NH to walk around that town and do a little shopping. Portsmouth reminds me of Old Town Alexandria. We had a delicious late dinner that night then watched an old 80's movie. On Sunday their daughter was doing a sprint-ish tri (the run was 4.4 miles long) and I got to go cheer her on! She had a pretty good race...except for a minor detour she ended up taking on the bike course (course marshall sent her and another rider the wrong way actually) and the extra bit of running she did (out the wrong way) out of T2. All in all she said she felt good and had FUN! It was a great race and a very nice venue. The race results are not yet up. After the race we headed into Boston for lunch. We found food at Quincy Market at Fanueil Hall. I had a very yummy prime rib cheesesteak from The Prime Shoppe!

So since week 5 was going to be a weird week, because I was going to be out of town over the weekend when I would normally do the long run, I opted to move that up a couple days and do it after work/dinner on Thursday. On the treadmill no less. OMG...

Week 5 actual workouts:

Day 29 – 5 miles at 10:39
Day 30 – swim 1.92 with Team Z in the morning; bike – spin 10.25 miles after work
Day 31 – tempo run, 6 miles, with 4 at 9:16; mile 1 was at 10:02, mile 6 was at 10:22
Day 32 – long run (done early) 16.02 miles at 10:54 (treadmill)
Day 33 – rest/xt – travel (walked around airports)
Day 34 – rest/xt – walked a lot - Salisbury Beach, MA and Portsmouth, NH
Day 35 – rest/xt – walked a lot - Sharon's Back Tri, Sharon, MA and Boston, MA (walked around airports some more)

Actual run miles: 27.02 (4 short)

Week 6 preview:

So, tonight and/or tomorrow night I may add a couple of miles to make up for the 4 I missed last week. But we'll see. I did get the long run in and that is more important. Tonight I have a meeting at the school at 7PM plus an errand - two actually - to do after. So I may not worry about those 4 miles. I will have a similar problem in week 7 as I am supposed to be out of town again that weekend...I have my first of three 20-milers scheduled for that Saturday!

Day 36 – easy 4 at 11:05
Day 37 – rest/xt
Day 38 – speedwork 7 including 3x1600 at 8:57 with 800 jogs in between
Day 39 – easy 3 at 11:05
Day 40 – rest/xt
Day 41 – long 18 at 11:05
Day 42 – rest/xt

Happy and Healthy Training!