100 mile week!
My body has been exceedingly kind to me this spring and early summer as I’ve been consistently breaking personal barriers in my endurance run training. First it was a 250 mile month, then a 300 mile month and now I’ve managed a 100 mile week. I never thought I’d be able to achieve that kind of mileage and still be able to bend my knees, let alone walk.
As you can tell, I’m pretty pleased with myself. Here’s how the week went down:
Monday: 9.4 miles in evening, home from office via Hauser
Tuesday: 7.8 miles in AM to office via Beverly Hills; 7.2 miles trails in Griffith Park
Wednesday: 6.5 miles in AM in Temescal with Katie and Peter
Thursday: 14.4 miles in AM on Westridge and Mulholland, with Coyotes for the last part
Friday: No running
Saturday: 30 miles in AM in Sycamore Canyon, Ray Miller Trail, La Jolla Canyon
Sunday: 20.2 miles in AM up Laurel Canyon, along Mulholland, down Benedict Canyon; 5.1 miles in PM around neighborhood and at Fairfax High track with Elizabeth
It was a great week of running for a few reasons in addition to the fact that I managed to hit 100 miles. In eight runs, I never ran the same course twice. I ran on the west side of LA, the east side, in the middle and in Malibu. I ran about 58 miles on trails and 42 on roads, which is a great mix. I did a fair amount of solo running, but spent time with friends and even got to run with Elizabeth for the first time in ages! I’m really pleased with the back-to-back long runs on Saturday and Sunday; the fact that I was able to back up a hilly 30 miles on the trails with a hilly 20 miles on roads is a huge confidence booster. (Though I’ll be the very first to admit that running on Laurel Canyon, Mulholland or Benedict Canyon is pretty damn dangerous. The cars just fly around those corners.) I also don’t feel like too much of the running was junk miles. Last night’s five miles wasn’t pretty, but I did mix things up a bit in terms of pace and effort and even ran a mile of it barefoot. In addition to the running, I also managed to go to yoga once, hit the pool once and get in the sauna four times (in preparation for the heat at Badwater).
The crazy thing that didn’t hit me until last night after my final run was that in just eight weeks, I’m going to try to run that far in one friggin’ day!
Here are some pictures from Saturday morning in Malibu:
Awesome job on going 100+
So far at least the heat during the day is bearable!
awesome. awesome. awesome. so glad you are feeling good! keep it up. stay healthy
Killer work man! You’re going to do great at AC.