Your Week in Training July 23 - 29

8 weeks till Half Moon Bay (5 weeks to Marquette)

M rest
T 8
W 8
R 5
F 8
S XT/Shred
Sun 14

43 week

Mon - cross training + weight training (upper body)
Tues - 4.11 (morning), 6.30 (evening) + weight training (legs)
Wed - 9.22
Thurs - 4.26 (morning), 6.24 (evening) + weight training (upper body)
Fri - Rest
Sat - 9.37
Sun - 18.33

Total = 57.83

7/21 - ~2hr ride with Aileen's dad; ended up pacelining with a really strong group and doing some VO2max pulls
7/22 - ~5.5mi recovery run AM, 1.5hr recovery ride PM with my dad
7/23 - 7mi easy/GA run after work
7/24 - ~2hr ride after work
7/25 - grueling 5mi recovery run after work
7/26 - unexpected day off work! 1hr recovery ride AM, 8.5mi easy run PM
7/27 - off

Week - a lot

Week 4 completed (step back week with 5k race)


WTD 50 YTD 1520

KB, looks like the job is more intense than expected?

Julie, nice, solid week

Nick, I wasn’t expecting any rest days in your log after that commercial!

Mike, I don’t think “grueling” and “recovery run” belong in the same sentence

Kenny, nice 5K there in the warmer weather



For me, finally a stepback week after lots of base training, and it helped me a lot. I treated it as a third taper week with rest every other day as my legs were getting pretty tired and I want to start a new program in good shape. I start a 16 week training program on Monday for Philadelphia.

Mon - rest
Tue – 5.2 miles
Wed - rest
Thu – 7.5 miles MP
Fri - rest
Sat – 12 miles progression
Sun – rest



Week – 24.4 miles
YTD – 1,475 miles

Good week:

Monday: 5.75 with the ladies
Tuesday: 8 (I did what I call my "cheater's double"...run in the afternoon and then the next morning...it's still two runs in less than 12-14 hours
Wednesday: 4 miles
Thursday: 8
Friday: 4
Saturday: 18
Sunday: 3

TOTAL: 50.75

E Greenie<-----ready for a nap

John-see you in Philly! This was also my final week before getting into a 16 week cycle for Philadelphia.

Mon-6 easy
Tues-6 w/3 tempo
Wed-off
Thur-8 easy
Fri-off
Sat-14
Sun-8 recovery

Week-42

Mon - 5 then left for airport
Tue 5 in Sao Paulo Brazil after getting to the hotel
Wed 6 in Sao Paulo
Thus - off: mtgs and travel home got in the way
Fri - 6 with some strides after I got home
Sat - 15
Sun 6

week: 43 - starting to ramp up for some yet to be determined fall marathon (Detroit maybe?)

5th week, July 23-29:

Monday: Rest
Tuesday: AM: 5

Wife drove Lucy to soccer practice instead, thus I didn't run in the PM. However,

Wednesday: 12

Thursday: 12

To show how steady Jerry runs, the time difference between last two 12 miles is just 4 seconds.

Friday: 5

Should've run more, but I have a meeting at 9:00am and need to drive Lucy to her Summer Camp.

Saturday: Lazy. Well, got up a little late, had time, but dam Olympics.

Sunday: no run, soccer scrimmage.

Weekly: 34

Lets call it a step back week then.

My week looks like Kevin's except he has a work excuse, me, I'm just injured. Anyway, here you go.

Mon - 5 miles elliptical
Tue - 21 miles cycling; weights and core
Wed - 5 miles elliptical
Thurs - Day off Went to PT and had ultrasound and electric stim
Fri - 5 miles elliptical; weights and core
Sat - 7 miles elliptical
Sun - 25 miles cycling

M-8mi@ 7:45 pace
Tu-43min Hal tempo (6mi)
W-off
Th-17mi easy pace
Fr-5mi treadmill recovery w/1hr strength training
Sa-off travel day and nightmare @ Mexico City airport
Su- La Paz run 8mi easy/ dang it's HOT in the Baja!
44mi week 1147 YTD

Well training kinda got side track during the weekend of this past week! I have no idea why my??? HaHa

Monday: am easy

Tuesday: am easy pm easy w/ fartlek 1min hard/ 1 min recovery

Wednesday: am easy

Thursday: am easy

Friday: am easy w/ 60mins at Steady State

Saturday: off was going to run in the long in the evening but plans changed due to trip to Northwestern Hospital

Sunday: off 3:28am baby Kristina entered the world at albs 110z and 21 inches ( AWESOME job Lisa! She was a huge stud in the delivery room 13 pushes and only 32 mins of pushing! no doubt you gave the 200% Dr. Levine wanted!!!)

8 hours 17mins total running for the week

Congrats on the baby Martin and Lisa.

Congrats Shuey's. Wonderful news. Pleased to hear everything went as planned, I wouldn't expect otherwise.

KBFitz wrote:

BINGO!!!

Welcome Kristina!

High Fives to proud pops & moms.

Alex Kubacki wrote:Congrats on the baby Martin and Lisa.

mountandog wrote:Congrats Shuey's. Wonderful news. Pleased to hear everything went as planned, I wouldn't expect otherwise.

Thanks guys! Lisa and I couldn't be more excited!

Hey Kevin so guess what her middle name is? Little hint same as dad!

Lisa and Martin, Congratulations from sunny hot Mexico. Will be back in the windy city soon. Glad to see you are all healthy and happy!