#Sub5orBust: Week 4 Training Update (November 11 - November 17, 2019)

Monday, 11/11 → Rest

Tuesday, 11/12 → 6.32 mile run (treadmill)

Wednesday, 11/13 → 5.41 mile run (treadmill) + phase 1 lift + stretch + volleyball match

Thursday, 11/14 → Rest

Friday, 11/15 → 35 minute run (treadmill) (equating to 3.5 miles!)

Saturday, 11/16 → Rest
Sunday, 11/17 → 7 mile run + phase 1 lift

100 miles in November Update: 57.12/100 miles completed
My picture was also featured in the first 100 mile challenge recap on Angie's blog!

For whatever reason last week was a bit more difficult to find the motivation to get my runs in. I think now that it's getting darker out earlier all I want to do when I leave the office for the day is go home and hibernate! I've been keeping myself motivated by telling myself that I might as well get to the gym on campus and get my work out done because if I leave campus right at the end of the day I'll just be sitting in traffic anyway. Whatever gets you to do the work out, right? 😋 It has been a bummer not being able to enjoy the sunlight during most of my runs, but hopefully I cab get at least one outdoor run in a week during these darker months.

I checked out a new trail for my long run on Sunday with mixed results. Unfortunately the first mile and a half of the trail was an un-managed TRAIL, which I am definitely not used to running, and there were constant breaks on the path to account for roads without a seamless next entry. I feel like any time a got to a point where the road came through the path, I had to stand on the side of the road for a good 30 seconds at a time trying to figure out where to go next! My overall pace for the run was pretty similar to last week's long run at 10:40, but my splits were all over the place. That's what you get when you put a road runner on the trail for the first time in a while! 😂

My legs felt like lead for pretty much every one of my runs last week, so I think training fatigue is definitely setting in. I also wasn't great about stretching last week, so I need to make sure I'm doing better about that each day! This is the point in training (entering week #5) where I've been notorious for starting to slack, so I'm going to try to continue to focus on one workout at a time and continue on work on slowly improving over time. Only 12 weeks left until race day! 🎉