#Sub5orBust: Week 3 Training Update (November 3 - November 10, 2019)

Sunday, 11/3 → Rest (volunteered at a local half marathon!)

Monday, 11/4 → 5 mile run (treadmill) + phase 1 lift + stretch

Tuesday, 11/5 → 5 mile run (treadmill) + phase 1 lift + stretch

Wednesday, 11/6 → Volleyball match

Thursday, 11/7 → Rest

Friday, 11/8 → 3 miles incline (treadmill) + phase 1 lift + stretch

Saturday, 11/9 → Rest (went to a wedding in Maine!)
Sunday, 11/10 → 10 miles

Another week of training down! This was an 8-day week in order to accommodate for a trip up to Maine for a wedding (I'll share pics later this week!). Our original plan was to drive up Friday night and I was going to get my long run in on Saturday morning with plenty of time to spare to get primped before the wedding, but Thursday night rolled around, we had both been working late pretty much every day that week, and we just weren't in the right head space to get ourselves packed and ready to hit the road after work on Friday. SO I changed up my training schedule and got my long run in the day after the wedding instead. Woop woop!

Last Sunday (11/3) Cassie and I volunteered for the Ocean View Half Marathon in Ipswich, MA. This race is put on by Yukan Run, which is a race company that has put on quite a few of the races I've run in the past! They do a great program where if you volunteer for one of their races, they'll give you a free entry to another one of their races in the future. I did this back in 2014 and really enjoyed my experience volunteering with them, so when Cassie asked if I wanted to join her I said yes! We had so much fun handing out water and Gatorade to runners and meeting the other women we volunteered with, who were all badass runners themselves. Cassie and I will be running the Happy Holidays Half Merrython on December 1st (which will be my third time running this race - check out when I ran it in 2013 and 2018!) for our free race entry. You know I love me a good festive race, so I'll absolutely we rocking an ugly sweater while I run!

I finally tracked down a pace chart to work off of during my training. Time is something that I haven't really paid too close attention to during my running career. It's usually been a "oh wow, I ran faster than normal!" kinda thing instead of "I NEED TO HIT THIS PACE" kinda thing. Now that I'm working toward a specific time goal, I'm trying to use all the tools I can at my disposal in order to accurately train for a sub-5. I guess the *slowest* that I can run and still hit a sub-5 is 11:26/mile, so I've been trying to stay faster than that in my training runs, especially when I start to get tired. I snapped the photo above for reference during my 10-miler yesterday. I'm happy to report that I ran well under that pace for the entire run! 

DEM HILLS

I'm not sure if I'm ~supposed~ to try and run faster during long runs while I'm training, and I'm thinking that when I start to get into the longer mileages (15+) I'll try to aim to hit my paces so I can save my legs from fatiguing in the later miles (you can see my last two miles I was definitely feeling it), but for now I'm really happy with how training has been going and I'm really proud of myself for keeping up with all of my workouts. 

On to week 4!
(But not without some long run pics from this week, of course!)

(Oh! And for those wondering how I'm doing on the 100 miles in November challenge, I am currently 34.89 miles in. It is my hope to get to 50 by Friday [11/15], when we'll be halfway through the month. My training should allow me to get there, no problem, but keep your fingers crossed for me!)