January 100 Mile Run Challenge! (Page 10)

Originally posted by MechEChick I've hit 80 (well 79.93 counts as 80 right?) as of now. Woot! My Z2 runs have been faster than I would have guessed for that heart rate, so I'm going to blow past the 100 mark easily this month.

Awesome! Nice work

I was debating when to take a rest week and that got decided for me on Monday when work and other things forced me to take a rare day off.  I've been hitting the last three weeks hard and when I'm in the heart of my tri training season I do three on, one off.  I'll absorb and recovery from this block and then ramp up weekly mileage again.  Working toward at least a 50 mile week. 

Ran 3 x 1.5 miles @ 96 second a quarter on the track last night. 

I was hoping to move into my faster group but It might just be that I need to run a touch slower when I am logging marathon mileage. 

It could also just be that the workout was a little too close to my depletion run (only a day of 'rest' in between.)

Going forward I will hold my volume through this week and then step back a little next week, which works great because I'm headed down to LA and then Mammoth at the end of the week.

Ran an easy 5 miles tonight.  I am backing off this week to recover from cumulative fatigue.  Starting to feel much more spring in my step.

I'm a little disappointed though because my target race on March 1st is now sold out.  I waited too long to register.  I'm not sure what to do now.  Anyone know of a flat, fast marathon Feb 22 or March 1st preferably somewhere above freezing?

Ran a very easy paced 15 miles today.  Wasn't really planning to do much since this has been a recovery week but my son is visiting from California so wanted to spend some quality time.  After all my recent miles it felt like a walk in the park.  We ran out and back on a flat, rural trail that used to be a railway.  It was a great time.  Also, it got me to my monthly goal of 150 miles so I'm pretty happy about that.  Legs feel great.  Now I just need to find a race. 

Easy Paced 13 miles?  Easy paced 15 miles?  I didn't even know those could be used in the same sentence.  For me anything over 9-10 miles is definitely not easy.

This week I totaled up 29.5 miles which puts me at 94 miles for the month.  So as long as things go as planned I should reach the 100 mile mark tomorrow.

Lots of folks doing some great running.  Many impressive totals and some amazing growth.  Wow, Mary, you are turning into a running machine.

I've got 37 for the week and 155.5 for the month.  More miles than I had planned but couldn't pass up a long run with my son.  He's a pretty good runner and did a couple of marathons last year but for once he was the one limping around after our run.  I'm going to try to push it up to 50 miles next week.