Longest Recovery Week Ever

I realize that my mileage is put to shame by many runners, but for me hitting 50km in any one week was and still is a bit of a milestone. So when it happens for the first time during a recovery week I'm allowed to be a bit impressed with myself.

Mother nature decided to dump a bunch of snow overnight and I had to do the last run of the week on some pretty crappy sidewalks. The footing was not good at all and my feet were pretty soaked by the end, but in the end I still had a great run. The goal was to run about ten miles and I ended up doing a bit more, finishing with 16.65km at a decent pace (4:58/km, 7:57/mile). This brought my weekly total to 50.8km. I hit that mileage only once in 2009! It was during training for my first marathon attempt and I broke down not too long afterwards. Now this distance seems like a minimum. The next milestone I am looking forward to achieving is 100km in one week. I hope to get this done long before my marathon training starts in June. If I get there it will mean that I really have established a great base before getting down to marathon training.

Four weeks until the Around the Bay 30k and it's looking more and more like I will be using this race as a training run. Still time to change my mind...

And since I won't be running tomorrow this is also a good time to recap February:

Not too shabby. This was my second highest monthly total ever. The fact that I managed it in the shortest month of the year is pretty satisfying as well.