Running With Jack

Last night was a rest night, no training. I really didn’t have time anyway after working for 10-1/2 hours. After dinner I was thinking about lifting some weights when I heard my wife yell from the home office something about our printer blowing up. So I spent about two hours fooling around with this before I got it working, by that time it was time to go to bed…forced recovery is not a bad thing.

In just over three weeks (July 22) is my next race event, a trail marathon in the Black Forest. The race course is relatively gentle, mostly unpaved logging roads, the hardest part of the course being the long gradual uphill climb over the second half of the marathon.

Obviously with only three weeks until the race I can’t do too much to train for the event. The Plan is to take it easy for another 4-5 days with some shorter runs, mixed with some cross-training. In the time remaining I want to try to get in 2 longer runs, probably one 2-1/2 hour and one 3+ hour run, both on my hilly route in Weingarten. I don’t plan on tapering for the race, other then reducing mileage the 5-6 days before the race.

My goal will be to try to break 4-1/2 hours (a PR for me), but this will depend a lot on the weather. If it is too hot I will need to downgrade my goal considerably, as I will be running the hillier second half of the race in the midday heat.

We’ll see what happens anyway, have a nice weekend!