Miles were as follows (monday: 10 tues: 9 (16 x 400 w/ Dave Parsel pretty much the whole way weds: OFF thurs: am:10 pm: 7-treadmill fri: 10 sat: 10 sun: 20 for a total of 76)
I feel fortunate to have gotten into a new house that is very close to fairview park and the Santa Ana River Trail (pictured below).
I like running these trails on account of the gravel/dirt surface and semi-interesting industrial scenery. I had grown tired of concrete/Newport Beach after running a couple thousand miles on the boardwalk between the wedge and Huntington Beach. The novelty had worn off. Fairview park also has a great 1 mile loop (I think OCC/Estancia HS cross country teams train there) that is good for repeats and progression runs. I also live right by the OCC track (site of my tuesday night track workouts).
Going for my first 20 on sunday was interesting - as the first marathon based long run always is. I was very pleased to find that my nagging issues started to fade as the run went on. I ran the first 13 in about 6:55 miles and slowed down to about 7:15's for the rest of the way. My body felt great aside from being fatigued by the duration of the run and the higher mileage weeks leading up to it. My average over the past three weeks (52/89/76) puts me right where I want to be in terms of average miles per cycle. All in all it was a solid week of running.
Haile Gebreselaisse talks about both running and walking in this Johnny Walker Advertisement, and boy did I walk this week.
I didn't run 10 miles each way to school this week, but I walked about 20-25 miles too and from the bus to get to work in my new place. I don't mind it too much, but it will be nice to have a car in the upcoming months!
Finally I have a good running pic taken by the brightroom folks in my most recent 5k:
Clearly I am hurting! I hope to get in another solid 75+ miles this week with a tempo included.
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