Carmel 2020 Week 1

April 4th 2020 Carmel Indiana
Goal: 2:51
This Week's Training

Runs: 7
Milage: 67
Workouts: 4 mile threshold (6:20 --> 6:04)
Long Run: 17 miles with a fast finish

Week 1 for the 2020 Carmel Marathon is in the books, so to speak. My primary goals for this week were just to get back into the training groove and get a decent amount of milage in while getting back to the 7 day a week running thing. Honestly, it feels like I just raced a marathon about a month ago......

The biggest challenge this week was probably the 7 day a week running. I haven't run on Sunday in about 5 weeks and I kind of got used to having a day off. But days off don't help you run fast marathons, at least they don't help me run fast marathons.

The other challenge this week was the threshold run. With the short turn around I was a little afraid that I wouldn't do very well. I really didn't feel like I needed to knock that workout out of the park but I also didn't want to suffer thru it at a pace slower that where I need to be and have to deal with the disappointment and the discouragement. The work out was fine; nothing to write home about but nothing to worry about either. You can see the workout on strava if you are interested.

The long run went really well. The group we formed throughout summer/fall that affectionately became known as The Kokomo Running Club is still holding up. This week Chad and I drove down to Broad Ripple to meet Steve and Thomas and run in their back yard for a change. We ended up rolling the last 8 of a 17 mile run with a nice sized group from Indy Runners. It nice to get 10 or 12 runners going at a decent clip, it really makes you feel like you are part of something. The Kokomo Running Club ended up running a nice impromptu fast finish (strava link) dropping the pace from 7 down to 6:20 over the last 4 miles.

That's really all there is to say about week 1. Goals for week 2 are to build the milage a little more, add a double day and to run the last 8 miles of our long run at MP (6:35).

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