Less than 2 months out!!

OK, so this post is several days late, but here's a recap on last week.

Last week's workouts were all GREAT! Haha, I'm glad that so many of my workouts I have positive reports about rather than negative ones! Really fun tempo run, easy mid-distance 10mi and even my 17mi long run was successful!!

As I stated in the last post, last year I stopped after reaching 15mi long runs, so all my long distances from here out are new territory for me. This week I did the 17 in loops (6mi + 6mi + 5mi) with each loop bringing me back to my car for water, gatorade and Gu. It worked out really well and I was able to *fairly* easily complete the 17. Haha, I kept running past the same guy working on a boat in his front yard and by the third time past he was like, "what ARE you doing? You're making ME tired!"

Next week is a drop in mileage and my "shortened-long run" is 12 mi, so that's still a significant workout. The Martha Jefferson Hospital 8k is on Saturday, so I'm really looking forward to racing. Last year I placed 5th in my AG with a 38:44, so I'm hoping to improve a bit on that time. We'll see what happens. I've been focusing much more on distance work rather than speedwork, so I may not be very fast. Still, I'm excited!! :)