Whew. I just finished up a 40 mile week, which is actually my highest total ever. It was probably my best overall training week, especially considering the bump in mileage. Had a great tempo day on Tuesday, followed by 5x3:00 intervals at 7:00 pace w/2:00 rest on Thursday, and finished it up with a long run of 14 miles at 2:00 half-marathon pace (9:11 per mile). My friend Chris invited me to do the Torchlight 5k with him, so I signed up for that today. I think I'm going to do 400m repeats on Tuesday for my first real anaerobic workout. I've never done speed work at an anaerobic pace, so I think getting one workout in before the 5k should help considerable. I'll be doing the 400m repeats in 1:40, which equates to about a 6:42 mile. I think I'm almost ready to bump my training paces up a notch, but I'm going to wait until I run the 5k to see if I should.
It might be ambitious, but I'm hoping to break 22:00 for my 5k. After the week of training I just completed, I feel like anything is possible. One drawback is that I'm not going to taper at all; the only modification I will make is to skip my normal speed work on Tuesday. Currently, I'm directing most of my training towards the Twin Cities Marathon, and I'm unwilling to let my mileage slide in order to put in a better time at the 5k. I guess we'll see if my fitness has improved enough since December to be able to PR when "running through" the event.
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