sunday - 19 (6 easy, 6 steady, 6 mgp, 1 cooldown) monday - 8 easy tuesday - rest wednesday - workout (2 x 4 mile tempo) 11 total thursday - 10 easy friday - 11 with 10 x 200m hills thrown in the middle saturday - 20 Total: 80 miles This week was rounded out with double long runs. My buddies, Josh and Dave, were headed to Sammamish River Trail for 20 miles easy. I wanted some flat miles, change of scenery and time to hang out with friends I don't often see. The downside was they were going on Saturday afternoon. Which gave me two quality workouts back to back. I asked my coach what he thought and he said: ice bath on Friday, ice bath on Saturday. Recovery is key. Sooo... I think that means, oy vey, fine go for it if you're smart about it. We ran it a little fast, (7:25s), but it was pancake flat and talking was easy. So maybe it's just that Seattle hills skew my pace-perception. It was a beautiful day, 65 and sunny. Great company, and a good shake up to my routine.
The rest of the weekend was recovery. Relaxed on Saturday night, slept in past 7:30am today. The big event of the day was walking down to the farmers market. I napped in the afternoon and did a 6 mile shake out. Which was pretty brutal, reminding me that yes, yesterday could have been slowed down. But also 20 miles just brings that very specific pain. 19 doesn't hit it. 20... is just something different. I did another ice bath this afternoon.
taking a tip from these bebe bunnies: recover
only thing missing are tiny bunny pals...
Owen and I dyed eggs tonight. A little late but, hey, it's still Easter. For Easter dinner we enjoyed oysters and wine that we'd picked up at the Farmers Market.
wine and oysters from washington state
nothing like shucking your own oysters...tastes like summer
A post dinner walk turned into a race to see the sunset at our favorite lookout.
