Interesting week…

Progress continues. Daily mileage is up at 4 to 6 miles but I took two rest days this week so my weekly mileage was only about 23 miles. My mile time is down to 8:05 and Garmin has my VO2 max at 44; up from 39 a month ago.

Hit a weight loss milestone; my bmi is 24.9 which means I’ve gone from obese to a healthy? weight in the past year. I need to lose another 15 pounds.

I need to get Strava and Garmin working on the same first day of the week. It’s annoying having different week to date mileage.

Was going at a good pace Friday and felt something cramping up. Maybe a hamstring or abductor. I stopped immediately at barely two miles and took a day off after. Seems better now.

The Peachtree 10-k is coming up. It includes Cardiac hill so I ran hills this week hoping I won’t have to walk. I think walking that hill is in my future based on the results of hill training.

I had previously downloaded Higdon’s marathon book. It didn’t make much sense to me. Too many rest days and not enough miles. Who am I to judge? Well my marathon experience consists of one marathon with no training apart from a cross country season followed by two weeks of not running. The results weren’t bad at 3: 44. But I was running 18 minute 5ks and 37 minute 10ks at the time. I should have been much closer to 3 hours. I’m not interested in a plan with multiple rest days every week.

I found Handons’ book and it seems much more in line with what I’m thinking.

For the next couple of months though, I’m going to keep building base miles and try to work up to 40 miles a week.