Last Week before Marathon Training starts- woo hoo!

This is my last week before the 18 week schedule starts. I am not sure how closely I will follow it, but I definitely want to be ready when the 12 week schedule starts so I need to do some speedwork.

Monday- not low hr, but pretty conversational. 5 miles in 48:18, 9:40 pace, ave hr- 156, max hr- 181
Tuesday- at the gym, wanted to get a tempo run in
warmup- 5 minutes- ave hr- 146, .50 miles
speedup-  37 seconds, 166 ave hr .06 miles
Mile 1 of tempo- 7:55, ave hr- 172
Mile 2 of tempo- 7:35, ave hr- 177
Mile 3 of tempo- 7:06, ave hr- 188
Mile.1 of tempo- :41 sec, ave hr- 197

Total 5k- 23:16, so still faster than last week. My legs are getting tired, but my heart rate seems to be doing well. My max hr was 198. I really need to work on strength training and core training!

Wed- Traveled to Utah
Thurs- Thanksgiving! Did my own Turkey Trot
I did a warmup and then did the first mile at exactly 7:00. I still have yet to see a mile in the 6's. I will have to do that one of these days. :-) The next mile was 7:47 and the last mile was 9:37. I definitely started too fast!

Fri-met up with Annie Ballard from Sherwood and ran 10 miles at 8:38 pace! I was so surprised by this. My last mile I even ran at 7:50. This gave me such hope.

This was a good week!