Here we are, about to start our last week of summer vacation. Or, my kids are at least. I’ve been crazy busy trying to get back on track with my job, our house, my marathon training, and this blog. All of them seemed to take a backseat to traveling with the family this summer, but now it’s time to pay the piper.
My training this week went better than previous weeks, at least from a hitting my paces standpoint. I did shorten a couple of run and miss one entirely, but I had a successful pace run on Wednesday where I actually had a couple of sub-10 miles.
My 10 miler on Friday also went way better than the 16 miles I did in feels like 105*.
Then I celebrated my birthday. Oops. OK, it was a pretty awesome birthday, but I paid for it on Saturday. Some day I’ll learn that anything other than beer makes me an unhappy camper the next day.
This coming week is a heavy mileage week, if I hit all the miles. It will be my first 50+ mile week for this marathon! I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous. It’s been a while since I ran like that… Thankfully, the weather here has been decidedly un-August-like, so running has actually been pleasant most days.
As we wrap up August, it’s also time to get back on track with Tuesdays on the Run. I’ve had a hard time keeping up this summer, but know that I read more than I comment because I suck at commenting from my phone. But, I’m back, the kids start school soon, and life will settle into a schedule again. With that in mind, here’s our upcoming Tuesdays on the Run schedule. This Tuesday, of course, is rate your month, if you are looking for a topic.
| Sep 6 | Will your training schedule change for fall? How? |
| Sep 13 | Best/Worst of Summer |
| Sep 20 | Fall race schedule |
| Sep 27 | Rate your month/year so far |
| Oct 4 | Favorite thing about fall running |
| Oct 11 | If I didn’t run… (finish the sentence however you want) |
| Oct 18 | Favorite new running product |
| Oct 25 | Rate your month |
I look forward to catching back up with everything and everyone, especially since I expect the next month of intense training will mean lots of being too tired to do anything but play on my computer.
How was your summer? Is your life “school year” focused?
I’m linking up with HoHo and MissSippiPiddlin for the Weekly Wrap and Courtney from Eat Pray Run DC for my training update.
ahhh yes.
first week of school last week and I MADE IT WITHOUT IT BEING REMOTELY SCHOOL YEAR FOCUSED.
but this week? it’s here 🙂 I caint avoid it.
Happy belated birthday! My birthday was the previous weekend I too know the feeling of needing to stick to beer, hindsight is always 20/20, lol!
I hope you have a good week of training!
I’ve finally reached that point in my life, or my kid’s life, that my life doesn’t necessarily revolve around the school year anymore. While it is nice, I would be lying if I said that I didn’t miss all of the excitement of school supplies, ‘meet the teachers’ and those sweet first day of school pictures! Enjoy them, they will be gone before you know it!
I’m back at school this week so now it becomes tricky trying to fit everything in as well! Good luck as you enter higher mileage. Glad the weather is cooling off a bit for you.
Feels like 105? Ouch!! I don’t miss those temps at all. It has been warm for late August in Colorado, but I haven’t been bothered by it much. I’m hoping for cooler temps too since my training kicks off today. It would be nice to head home and run outside instead of driving to the gym.
Wow a 50 mile week is super impressive. The weather is so much nicer this week it should really help
Good luck with that 50-mile week! I’ll be thinking of you as I log my walking miles LOL (which will be about half of that!)
Heck, we never even know when the kids are in school. 🙂
I kind of laugh about people feeling out of their routine during the summer, but I get it, even without kids the schedule changes (a little).
50 miles. I can’t even.
I’ve definitely learned the hard way that too much alcohol the night before a long run doesn’t fare well. Hope you enjoyed your birthday though! That’s what counts 🙂
My kids are into their 2nd week of classes now. However we have been quite busy with pre-season cross country training for all of August, so it seems like school started a long time ago! I really enjoy having the structure of school in our days, but dislike very much having to plan our family vacations around school breaks!!
Love the tank – “suck it up buttercup” is one of my favorite sayings!
Yay 50 mile week! Last week was my first since I had a couple of shorter mileage weeks to tend to my calf. I am loving this weather!!!