Goals:

• Avoid running myself into the ground with Pfitz plan
• Hit my workouts
• Build endurance

Schedule:

• Monday – Rest
• Tuesday – 8 @ 9:42 (6 x hill, 6 x 100m)
• Wednesday – 9 endurance @ 9:20
• Thursday – Rest
• Friday – 8.5 18+15 LT workout @ 8:52 avg
• Saturday – 13.1 Progression Run @ 8:44 avg
• Sunday – Rest, maybe a bike ride in the evening

Recap:

So this is the third week of the Pfitz 12/47 half plan. This plan is way more quality-heavy than the other ones I’ve done in the past. These three weeks have really hard on my legs. I’m pretty fatigued. For the last two weeks, I moved my Sunday run to Saturday morning, which probably amplifies the fatigue, since there’s so little rest time between the quality session on Friday and the relatively quality session on Saturday.

This week was my first progression run. I’ve been reading about how tough they are, and I wasn’t disappointed. Because of the lack of rest between hard sessions, the first four or so miles were really sloggy. I couldn’t get my legs going. Eventually they warmed up, and the rest of the run went pretty well. It was definitely difficult running that hard for that long, but once you get going, it’s almost easier to keep going than it is to stop.

I felt that on Saturday for sure – the run was only supposed to be 12 miles. I had tacked a ten minute cool down onto the run on my watch, and noticed that I was on track to beat my HM PR at the end of the twelve miles. So of course I went for it. I finished the run in 1:54, which was a three minute PR for the distance, although I had to stop a few times along the way which resulted in a gross time of 2:02.

The run went well, but I felt like I had been hit by a truck afterward. I sat in a cool bath after I got home and then wore my new compression pants for a few hours while I napped, and I’m still not feeling 100%. Hopefully I feel a lot better after another good sleep tonight and some more time off my feet today.

Looking forward:

Next week is so much easier! It sounds like Uncle Pete is as smart as everyone said he is, because he built a recovery week in at week four. One speed session on Tuesday and then everything else is GA. I am looking forward to the track session because I got a pair of New Balance LD5000s and really want to take them for a spin on the track.

Today, though, I am looking forward to plenty of rest and Netflix. Tomorrow is the Ole Miss game, and I’m planning on watching it at the alumni watch party with some of my college friends that live around here now.