Keep On Moving

Another week, another decent amount of mileage. In my quest to run somewhere in the 100km or more per week range things are going better than I would have hoped. Had I been asked a month or two ago when I might first reach my first week of 100km I'd have answered, "Sometime in February, maybe early March seems like a reasonable goal." Then I went ahead and just did it last week, so I'm rather pleased.

So, after my first week of triple digits, metric style, I was all set for a nice "down week". I even took Tuesday off, though it had more to do with family committments rather than not wanting to run, and for once it wasn't due to injury. I just didn't really feel like running late at night when the temperatures were somewhere in the vicinity of -20C with the wind. Can you blame me? Besides, this was a "down week", so I tried not to feel too guilty about taking just my second day off since November 2nd.

Anyway, long story short, I still managed to accumulate 90km (55.9 miles) this week on 7hr59m44s of running! Some "down week"...

• Monday: 12km, 1:08:40, 5:43/km, 134bpm
• Tuesday: rest
• Wednesday: 17km, 1:30:00, 5:18/km, 144bpm
• Thursday: 12km (treadmill), 1:00:00, 5:00/km, 146bpm
• Friday: 16km, 1:21:20, 5:05/km, 136bpm (mileage starting to pay off??? HR low for that pace)
• Saturday: 13km, 1:10:13, 5:24/km, 148bpm (HR monitor messed up, said 209bpm max!, plus cold and windy)
• Sunday: 20km (treadmill, snowstorm), 1:49:23, 5:27/km, 140bpm