Week 9 of Marathon Training: Oct 5 – Oct 11

Monday – A glorious 5 mile run in the evening.  The weather was cool (still tank top weather, but not sweltering) and I decided on no watch – just my music.  It felt great!

Tuesday – Had another work dinner so I hit the gym for a quick 2 miles (16:37 – 8:19 pace).

Wednesday – Group run: 4 miles (37:05 – 9:16 pace). 9:56, 8:53, 9:06 and 9:08.

Thursday – Rest day

Friday – Ran 4 miles

Saturday – Run/walk 7 miles.  My heart wasn’t in it!

Sunday – Off Day – went for a 45 minute walk at night to get my steps in.  I guess these fitness tracker things are motivating

 

Total miles: 22 miles.  Wednesday I got notified of a large loss on one of my work accounts and being stressed out absolutely kills my motivation for working out.  All weekend I was down, anxious, and stressed out over it that I didn’t do much….

 

Although I am half through marathon training, I have skipped some long runs and haven't done perfect, but I still have a solid 2 months before the race.  That is 6 weeks of work, followed up with 2 weeks of taper, so I should still be OK.  Last year I tried to do a bit too much and that along with life just caught up to me.  I am trying to mimic my first (Chicago) marathon training plan and am ahead of schedule on that one.