Week 4 in Review.

Week 4 is in the books! After Monday nights track workout, I enjoyed my rest day on Tuesday and just did some weight/core training rather than a run. Wednesday, however, was my next shot at the weekly tempo-run. As I mentioned, due to poor planning, last week's was a disaster, so I was happy to go to an old familiar trail (Highline Canal Trail - which I used for much of my training during my 1st marathon effort, in 2011) to try to lay down a better effort.
The goal was 6-miles at 6:06 pace. This trail is packed gravel with rolling terrain. I got on it a little late again and only was in the light of day for the first 1.5 miles of the tempo, but this week, with my new headlamp, I was able to stay a little more consistent, producing the following splits:

5:56, 6:06, 5:56 out

6:11, 6:09, 6:12 back

6:05/mi average

I'm finding that the issue I am having mostly is my lack of endurance. It's just going to take some time to get that built back up. 

Ahh well, after that workout, the rest of this week was all easy running. 6 on Thurs, 8 on Fri, 8 on Sat and a final, easy, 6 today. All of these went fine, but I did go up to the mountains on Friday afternoon and had to do my 8-miles at 9200ft and 25 degree temps. It was pretty cold as the wind was blowing off of lake Dillon, and it certainly kicked my lungs' ass, but I was happy to get thru it at under 7:25 pace. 

Hard to believe that raceday is just 3 months from tomorrow! I'm excited, but have LOTS of work to do between now and then. Starting with tomorrow's track workout... Happy Training everyone!