May 27th- June 2nd "Week #15"

Mileage for the Year 2013
1,582 miles

Mileage for the week 5/27- 6/2
101 miles

6/2
22 miles

I woke up at 5:15am and was out the door around 6am to try and beat the heat of Mesa, AZ.  It wasn't too bad the first hour, but I was definetly hot.  I felt dehydrated a little in my mouth, but overall I felt pretty good the entire run. More mental than anything when not use to this heat.  I picked it up a little toward the end and ran sub 6 pace, but I figured just running in this heat was good enough.

I'm glad I ran early because it's suppose to get up to 108 degrees today!

6/1
11 miles (7am/4pm)

Both easy recovery pace. 

5/31
10 miles (10 x 100m striders)

Woke up at 7am and was out the door by 7:20.  It was about 80 degrees, but wasn't too bad.  Started out easy, but progreesed down to about 6:30 pace.  Was very nice to jump in my parents pool afterwards too.

5/30
19 miles (15am/4pm)

100 degrees in phoenix.  I was able to sleep in, so I wasn't going to run this outside in the sun.  Very lucky that my parents have a club house in their neigborhood with some nice treadmills.

I started easy at 7:30 pace but was down to 6:30 pace by mile 6.  Kept progressively getting faster until my last 3 miles were sub 6.  Last mile was 5:39 pace.  Felt pretty good the entire time. Felt easy.

5/29
12 miles (6 x 1200m @ 5K pace)

I woke up at 5:15am to get this workout done before I left for Phoenix.  I'm not a morning workout person. I can run easy pretty well, but not workouts.  It took me a long time to feel good.  My first mile in my warm up was over 8 min!

3 mile warm-up with striders
6 x 1200m @ 5K pace w/ 2 min rest
3.5+ mile general aerobic

5/28
13 miles (7am/6pm)

Another couple of easy recovery paced runs today. Another beautiful and sunny day.  Felt better in the legs then yesterday. Heading to Arizona tomorrow for a week.  Hoping my training does well in the heat.

5/27
14 miles (8am/6pm)

Beautiful day today for Memorial Day!  Hottest Day I can remember ever in Anchorage.  Both runs were done very easy at recovery pace.  Gonna do the same tomorrow too, just to make sure I'm recovered from race on Saturday.