I ran my first 40 mile week since August last week and am already 20 miles into this week. My loosely formulated plan to cut back a bit and then start base building again seems to be working out.
Peaking and the subsequent drop in fitness has been mentally hard for me to handle. A couple months ago I was ripping 7 minute miles and now I'm closer to 8... and it's not like I ever stopped training, but dropping from 200+ miles a month to 100+ miles is quite a difference so I guess I just need to have faith that the process is working.
2 weeks ago on Sunday I ran 11.03 miles at 8:32 pace with a 148 avg HR. A few days ago on Sunday I ran 12.50 miles at 8:09 pace with 146 avg HR... neither run was anything special when taken individually, but the comparative jump in fitness in just 2 weeks is encouraging.
I've ripped out 331 pull ups over the last 9 days and am quickly closing the gap on my goal pace.
Today I dropped 7.5 miles on the treadmill at 8:30 pace. I think that's the bread and butter type of run I need to be hitting as I build my base up. I've been probably running a bit too fast for a lot of my runs, chasing the fitness I recently had.
One day, I need to be more disciplined about my blogging/documentation for future Ethan's sake... For now I'll just ramble through it, much like my training :)
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