Welcome to September! I can’t believe how quickly the summer flew by; here we are at Labor Day weekend…And just three weeks out from the Fargo Marathon!
Here’s how training went this past week:
Monday: After traveling to Hood to Coast, I decided it would be best to wait to run with others until I waited a few days and then got a Covid test, so solo runs for most of this week.
I slept in before work and did 4 miles over lunch with Ruth, 8:45 min/mile average, followed by another 4 miles in the evening, 8:55 min/mile average. 8 miles total.
Tuesday: 6 miles with Ruth before work, 8:40 min/mile average. 30 minute strength for runners via the Peloton app after work.
Wednesday: Monster workout!
I had to start bright and early too, to be ready for an 8 am zoom meeting.
3 easy, barely awake
2 x (800m at marathon pace, 800m tempo), i.e. 2 miles straight with no recovery- well, marathon pace is the recovery!
400m easy jog
4x(400m hard, 90 second jog)
400m easy jog
3x(800m at marathon pace, 800m tempo), i.e. 3 miles straight with no recovery
400m jog
4x(200m hard, 200m jog)
Recover to 12 miles, 8:55 min/mile average- whew!
Dustin and I got covid tests (drive through nasal swabs at Park Nicollet; negative!)
Bocce after work. Only one week left in the season!
Thursday: Rest from running. I still took the dogs for a few walks and did a barre class at the Bar Method, but no running.
Friday: Ruth (my vizsla) and I met up with Christie for a morning run. I had a Garmin snafu and didn’t start my Garmin until we were two miles in! So only 5.6 on my Garmin, but it was probably more like 7.5 total, 9 min/mile average.
Saturday: Longest long run before Fargo, 21 miles, 8:57 min/mile average.
I ran it all solo, except for a few miles when I randomly ran into a woman I coach, Molly, so we did some miles together. It was really nice to get to know her better!
Saturday evening, our friends Sarah and Jeremy hosted a little beer tasting + birthday party for their dog Odin (who we have dogsat before.)
Ruth was very excited about the “barkuterie” board that Sarah made for the pups!
Sunday: 7 miles with Ruth & Dustin, 8:45 min/mile average. Beautiful 65 degree and sunny morning! I hope to do another Peloton strength class later today.
Summary: 61 miles of running, 1 barre class, a few Peloton strength classes
3 weeks to go until marathon 36, state 25!
I’m linking up with Running on the Fly and Confessions of a Mother Runner as part of their Weekly Rundown. Check it out!
I also can’t believe that it’s already September. Honestly, it doesn’t feel like a holiday weekend to me either, but I won’t complain and definitely appreciate the day off work.
Another awesome week of training for you. Awesome job on that 21 mile long run too! I love that photo of Ruth leaning toward the barkuterie board – too funny!
She doesn’t normally get things like hot dogs and popcorn so she was in heaven!
wow that marathon is coming up fast.
Hooray for negative COVID test
I’m glad testing is so easy and free!
That barkuterie board is the cutest! Are your Vs as obsessed with popcorn as ours are?! ha!
Great week of running! I’m so impressed with your early morning miles – all before 8a! Send me some of that morning workout energy! Excited for you to run Fargo!
Ruth and Matilda hadn’t had much popcorn before (I’m not a big popcorn person so we just don’t have it!) but they LOVED it. They were in heaven with all the special treats!
What a great week- you did that killer workout midweek and then a 21 mile long run! Sounds like the weather has improved a bit.
The dog birthday party is so, so cute (love how they paired it with a beer tasting- you obviously have some fun friends.)
Good luck! Are you in your taper?
Yep! Taper Time!
Yes, where did our summer go??? September sure was in a hurry to arrive! Great job on all those runs, especially that 20-miler!
Oops, I meant 21-miler…every mile counts!
Hah, true! Thanks Kim!
Fantastic job on your long run! You are so ready and I can’t wait to see you bring it in 3 weeks!
Haha barkuterie board. I LOVE IT! Apparently, so did the pups.
Thanks Wendy!
Congrats on what sounds like a great peak long run! You are ready! Somehow I missed the fact that you were at HTC, but I’ve been really behind on commenting & reading — nice though!
Ruth. LOL — Bandit would be very excited by that, too. Today he found a towel in a small wastebasket that ahem someone didn’t cover, and proceeded to eat half of it. Someone ahem thinks he’s so good — that because someone else is careful for the most part not to leave bad stuff in his reach! Ok, rant over.
Yep! I ran Hood to Coast. My first relay!
OMG, the dogs licking their chops is so cute! I really admire and appreciate how cautious you were about covid—glad your tests were negative!
Thank you Coco! It’s so easy to just get tested to be sure.
Way to crush your long run! You are so ready for this one. NIce week of training for you. Thanks for linking up
Thanks Deb!
Great week of training. Way to knock out those 12 miles before an 8am meeting! The 21 miler sounds like it went well too. You are ready for this!!
Thanks Lisa! I’m excited!
Barkuterie! Too cute! I’ll bet they loved that! Wow on 3 weeks and congrats on that capstone long run. You’ve so got this! I always referred to my final 20+ miler of marathon training as a 5-town tour of the Chicago suburbs. Haha!
ha, I love it! 5-town tour 🙂
Just 3 weeks to go – wow! You’ll be more than ready. Another great training week for you!
thanks Michelle! Summer flew by!
Looks like a great week! Your workouts are looking so strong! Glad you got negative covid tests after traveling. Only 3 weeks to go!!
It’s so easy to test, might as well be safe!
Amazing! You are so ready!
I found the cutest little charcuterie board at Target in the (3) dollar spot. I bought it to make a barkcuterie board for Luna.
I love it! Can’t wait to see pictures.
You had another great week of training!
“Barkuterie board” – that’s awesome and I can certainly understand why Ruth would be excited!
She’s never had such fun human treats!
aww barkuterie!
Glad you had the peave of mind of the negative test.
Don’t you just love those world’s largest small town moments when you run into someone you know?