I can not believe that the Berlin Marathon is just 7 weeks away, but it is! This is the part of the training where the cumulative fatigue really begins to set in. I’m basically super tired on a daily basis and I know that this is part of the plan. I try to nap on the weekends when I can and to get to bed early. Rest and recovery continues to be of the utmost importance. 
Here’s how the week shook out:
Monday: I was still in VA for the last morning of Bird Camp. We held a prediction run for our campers (where you predict your time for a particular distance but can’t look at your watch during the run) – but none of us camp planners ran it. So Colleen and I headed to the W&OD Trail on our way to DC for one more camp run. We ran about 12pm and it was HOT, but that portion of the trail is lovely.
Tuesday: My first strength workout – 6×1 mile repeats at ten seconds faster than MP. My repeats were on target: 8:40/8:27/8:38/8:42/8:44/8:32. This felt hard but I knew I could do it, which was a great feeling.
Wednesday: REST DAY IS THE BEST DAY!
Thursday: My last 8 mile tempo. I ran straight to work and didn’t have my foam roller with me and I could feel it in my legs all day. I also felt exhausted most of the day as well. But it got done, which is the most important thing.
Friday: Slept in and only had time for 3 miles. Sleep won and I’m not mad at it.
Saturday: 15 mile long run. Again, the fatigue made this hard, but I pushed through and got it done.
Sunday: An easy, slow 5 to close out the week.
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I love your saying Rest Day is the Best Day. I started using it. It is so true with Hansons. I hear people say they hate rest days, but when you follow Hansons and only get one (sandwiched between the two workouts), you are grateful for that rest day and it IS the best. Glad you got a LOT of miles in this week and had a very strong mile repeat workout as well as a strong long run.
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Rest day IS the best day! And yes, I never understand when people say it’s hard to take a rest day. I look forward to it all week 🙂
Luckily the Garmin app keeps record of all my runs which is nice! When I’m training I am a little obsessed with mileage but when I’m not training, I don’t focus on it too much!
You had a great week of training. Kudos to you for running at noon in the heat! I don’t know if I could do that.
It was the last day of lower humidity so it wasn’t horrible but it was warm, lol!
Great week of training! You nailed your workouts this week. I am semi-obsessive about mileage but I’m a pretty low mileage runner over all. Everything that I run outside gets tracked on my garmin.
Love the monument picture. It must be lovely running around DC on the regular.
It is really nice to have DC as my backyard (pretty much literally). Sometimes though, I take it for granted!
Saturday was brutal!! Great training week….I think we have some nice weather coming to us, though!
The rain this morning was refreshing. Hoping the humidity will die down some this week!
Check out the sixth picture on my post and you’ll see that I love to track my mileage, but I have to admit, you win hands down! Now that I have my new Garmin, I’m sure I’ll be a little more on top of things, but at the moment I couldn’t tell you how many miles I’ve run this year unless I sat down and figured it out…
Thanks for the linkup!
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Oh! Are you doing Leesburg 20k? I just signed up 🙂
Ah, 7 weeks is going to fly — and you are too! Hope this cool weather lasts a bit longer!
OMG you and me both. The rain was nice this morning!
Great job on the workouts. I’m hoping to get things back where they need to be. At some point, I’m going to just have to admit my summers are too crazy for Hansons LOL.
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Hahaha you have such a strong base though – you always pull through well!
Oh yes, I track the numbers as obsessively as you do. Every mile counts!!!
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Yes it does, lol!
Another great week! You pushed through and still did great! I’m not as obsessive about the numbers, LOL, but I’m glad to keep track of all of my mileage and have it one place!
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I track pretty obsessively but don’t care too much about the numbers, if that makes sense 🙂
Impressive week! I know Bird Camp is tiring from the other side, so I can only imagine as a leader! I also track my mileage obsessively (Type A in full force), but Strava helps. I used to keep very wild spreadsheets. 😉 Have a great week!
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Haha, thanks. And yes tired all the time is my new jam, apparently 🙂
Oh, cumulative fatigue–now the fun begins, right? Look at that beautiful fast last repeat in your strength workout! Great job keeping it up and going strong in these very tough weeks!
I am so tired, lol. But I felt the same way this time last summer. Thanks for the encouragement, friend. Only six more double digit tempo runs for me!!
I’m totally digging my rest days now. I try to be as lazy as possible. 7 weeks! You’re almost there. I do track mileage…maybe too much?!
The time is flying by!!