8.08 miles
The great thing about slow easy miles for me is the ability to run again the next day with minimal soreness. While my legs were a little tired, that was the whole point of running today.
The goal was to run a few miles but I was only aiming for about 5 and ended with 8. If I had fuel with me I may have gone longer but I needed to cap it.
This was a cutback week but I still managed 38 miles so, again, not a solid cutback week for me.
We’ve reached the halfway mark in training and while I’m feeling pretty good physically and mentally I know anything can change from day to day and week to week.
All I can hope for is to continue to get stronger but training is about to really kick up and I just need to continue focusing on each run because that has made a world of difference for me.
Everyone takes different approaches to train. What works for others may not work for me and vice versa. Some folks can thrive on higher mileage or do better on lower mileage or fewer days. In the past, I’ve taken an unconventional approach and sometimes mixed up my long runs by breaking them up and doing back-to-backs which works for me.
What’s important to me is come race day knowing I’ve done the best I could.
And with that, 9 weeks of training down and 9 weeks to go until race day.
Thank you for reading my daily post on my Chicago Marathon training.