September Recap/October Goals

September was a pretty good month for me.  My two main goals were to run 90 miles and hit the gym 10 times.  Well I’m batting 0.500.  I ran 100 miles – which is awesome.  I have not been that high since January and February when I was running Disney and the Ultra.  Go me, go me.  I only made the gym 8 times, but I am still happy with that.  There was one week early on in the month that I pretty much took the whole week off…

I managed to run 3 long runs of 15, 16.7 and 18 miles.  The 15 miler and 16.7 miler both went pretty well.  The 18 miler I did in 3 segments, but that made me run on tired legs.  I keep thinking I am not where I need to be for marathon training, but then I remember that I still have 2 months before the race.  That gives me 5-6 weeks of building up still.  Hoping to get in two 20 mile runs, and then some back-to-back mid distance runs. I think training for Goofy really helped my running overall, so I am going to try and fit some of those it.

October

Goals

·       Run - 110 miles

·       Gym – 10 times

·       Long run – 20 miles

One of the things I am also working on is not giving up my lifting for my running.  I have always backed off the gym during marathon training for two reasons (1) – time and (2) – I didn’t want my muscles to be too tired for a quality run.  I’m trying to switch around the days I do things to fit it all in.  I want to do it all.