This past week has been a great training week. The last time I wrote in here I had just gotten back from Burlington and my next workout was Tuesday night track at Tufts. That workout was a challenge, but felt great. We did 5 x [1000 hard, 200 medium, 400 hard, 400 medium]. The 'medium' sections were supposed to be a kind of active recovery, where we were still keeping our pace honest (not jogging at negative speed) but just bringing down the pace from the hard effort being put forth in the 1000s and the 400s. I am clearly a distance runner, because even though the 1000s felt hard, I was able to kind of get into a rhythm and enjoy that distance so much more than multiple hard, short sprinting sets.
Wednesday night - I had NO idea it was supposed to really really snow, so I headed out my door around 6:00pm to run. When I started, it was flurrying a bit, but nothing too bad. About two miles into my run it was full on snowing. As in I had to run with my head down and I still could hardly see because of the large amount of snow coming down. It was a fairly dangerous and difficult run, but I logged about 6.2 miles.
Last night was Crossroads, and the Dana Farber running coach (Jack Fultz, winner of the '76 Boston Marathon) told me that I should run hard for the first portion of the run and then take it easy for the remaining miles in preparation for my long run/race this weekend. I did just that and ended up having one of my best crossroads runs this week. I ran hard from Woodland to Washington Square (about 6 miles) and then brought my pace down for the remaining three miles into Crossroads.
I'm feeling a tiny bit under the weather today (which is not surprising seeing as I feel as though everyone around me has been sick). Hopefully I can fend off whatever this is, at least until after Sunday. Tonight will be a short 3-4 mile run up to Cleveland Circle and back in Brookline. Then I plan to rest up tomorrow before the relay on Sunday.
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