Thursday run and training plans

RUN 5 miles in 47 mins
COMMUTE 9.4 miles

Wonderfully warm morning for our run. This time I was more prepared with new headlamp batteries and my reflective gear, but in my distraction forgot to change out of my 'around the house' old Adrenalines (circa 2016?). Didn't realize this until I was almost parked. Didn't let it stop me.

IT, BE, Mike, EW and me this morning. BE has his 1 hour stair climb race this weekend so he did the shorter loop with me and EW. BE and I got a bit ahead of the others, looped back before the zoo to pick them up again. Feels good to be running again, I feel normal!

And I'm excited (and hopefully not too ahead of myself on this, reference 2017 and 2018...) to "announce" that I've picked races for this fall. In addition to my hopes of doing 24 The Hard Way, I've found that Mark Twain 50 is running this year! So I've staked my "peak" on MT50 with maybe Shawnee Hills 50k as prep.

As expected I whipped out the old training plan calculator and did the maths. 14.8-ish miles last week, I start April on a fast build to catch the training plan's 20 week set on the last week of April. Thus I have about until May to "catch up".

The plan starts at 36 mpw. Oof. Let's see, 15-18 this week, then adding 2-3 per week.... maths... will be a tight schedule. I haven't figured out yet how to get biking in there, but I plan to use it as aerobic base building assistance.

This run felt great, BE and I looped the parking lot to hit 5 miles. All the while, BE laughing at my need to have even numbers. Hey, he didn't have to run that last 0.4 miles. He's a nice guy though :)