Week one of training for the Steamboat Marathon is in the books. I totaled 73 miles for the week and 7 days of running. This is the first week of a 2 month base building phase. All workouts are based on time and effort not pace. Included was Monday and Friday runs of an hour at current marathon pace. 7:05 for Monday and 7:08 for Friday. Tuesday and Thursday are longish run days of 1.5 hours. These days are harder for me not because of the length but they sometimes drag a little with the slower pace and the legs just usually feel a little sluggish after the harder efforts. Wednesday was an hour at 1/2 effort of 7:29 pace over a hilly course. That run felt easy and was enjoyable. Sunday is when I do my long runs of 2 hours. With Steamboat being in the mountains, I am planning to do most of these runs on terrain that simulates the course ie. hills. For this run, I mapped out the hardest 16 mile course possible. The course is nothing but hills with the biggest being Le Heup Hill that is a 200 ft climb at 7% grade. The course was an out and back so did all the hills twice. Had a better run than I expected and ran a much faster pace than I planned or thought possible running 7:45 pace while keeping my avg. heart rate at 142.
Next week is the MADD Dash 5K at Al Lopez Park in Tampa so I will probably tinker with this week's training a bit but plan to keep mileage pretty much the same.
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