Since running, I’ve always felt that come the end of the week, I could have done a little more.  Maybe ran an extra day or one or two extra miles.  Well, I don’t that’s the case anymore.

This week I ran 35 miles for the first time and I think I have definitely reached the most I can run in a week.  My legs have been tired this whole week and it was somewhat of a struggle to run the 35 miles.  Today is a rest day and I definitely need it.

I ran the 35 miles over 5 days (as I rest for 2 days) so that means I averaged 7 miles on my running days.

I definitely wouldn’t be increasing my mileage for a while as I need to stay at this level until I can do it comfortably before moving up to 40 miles per week.  I’ll do 35 miles this coming week, but then I would have a few fairly low-mileage weeks after that as I have my 10K race and then I have a business trip to make the first week of March.  That actually works out well as these weeks would be my race taper and mileage cut-back weeks.

I need to work on my eating as it’s been atrocious.  I’ve been eating everything in sight.  The only thing that is keeping my weight down is the volume of running I’m doing.

Posted by derek in Training