I had grand plans to include a few photos and a recipe with this post but the weekend got away from me.
Week five was a great week for training! Running felt so much easier after running with a head cold all of last week. In particular, this week's long run of 8 miles felt so much better than last week's 7-miler.
My triumph of the week was today's run. Sunday is my "no walk day" run and I managed to do 3.98 miles in 40 minutes exactly. I haven't had a run like that in *years*. I'm considering changing one of my weekday interval runs to a "no walk day" run to try to improve some more. My rule used to be that I would not use run-walk intervals for any run less than 6-7 miles. I'd like to get back to 6-miles without walk breaks level of fitness for sure.
Week five summary
All of my runs in week five were downtown on various running trails...very flat terrain, but it was a bit windy for a couple of runs.
Monday - rest
Tuesday - 4 miles, 5:1 run-walk
Wednesday - 40 minutes, 5:1 run-walk
Thursday - 35:00 recovery run, slow, 2:1 intervals
Friday - rest
Saturday - 8.15 mile long run, 5:1 intervals
Sunday - 3.98 miles, no walk breaks
Looking forward to tomorrow's rest day!!
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