First, the totals from this past week: 121 miles including one 31-mile day broken into 4 runs, and one 30-mile day in one run. (30 is a key number since The Run will consist of six 30-mile days per week.)
As for this entire training cycle, I've run 2956.5 miles since I retired on July 28, 2006 (which is when I was able to start training full-time for this).
Prior to beginning this endeavor, I'd never run more than 60-65 miles per week (and that was rare). Since July 28th, my running has included:
- 70-79 mile weeks: 9 times
- 80-89 mile weeks: 7 times
- 90-99 mile weeks: 4 times
- Over 100 miles/week: 7 times with a high of 157 miles
- seven 30-mile days (including 4 consecutive 30-mile days the week I ran 157 miles total) and two 26.2 mile days (marathons)
- six zero-mile days - two of which were last August (one garage sale day, three due to all-day travel via train or plane, one planned day off the 157-mile week, and one the day my dad died)
- non rest weeks (weeks of over 60 miles per week) include two runs per day, with typically over 3 hours of running per day
- 13 pairs of Brooks Adrenaline (I've worn out 8 pair and have 5 pair currently in rotation).
- eating properly between the first and second runs of the day but I've made good progress on finding nutritious and palatable foods for those between-run-meals (soup, rice, eggs, sweet potato, fig bars, banana)
- managing my time so I fit in stretching and icing after both runs (but the incentive seems to be increasing as my legs really scream when I don't ice or stretch - I do have a pretty good stretching routine worked out now that seems to be quite effective when I make the time for it)
- sleeping: I've yet to get into the rhythm of napping during the day, and still need to work on getting enough sleep at night (7 hours seems to be what I most commonly achieve and that's just not enough)
- upcoming weekly mileage of: 100, 60 (rest week), 120, 100, taper starts: 80, 60, 30
- each week other than the 60- and 30-mile weeks will include a 30-mile day; the 120-mile week will have two 30-mile days.
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