Boston Marathon Training (Week 2)

Monday: recovery run 5.26 miles
Tuesday: intervals: 4×5:00 with 1:30 active rest between intervals. 5.72 miles
Wednesday: recovery run 5 miles
Thursday: off
Friday: Intervals: 4×5:00 with 2:00 active rest between intervals. 6.00 miles
Saturday: off
Sunday: long run. 13.11 miles
Totals: 35.09 miles

Many days this week, runs were spent in wind chills of -15 degrees or colder. Also roads all week have been snowed covered and ice covered. While I am thrilled with my pacing or distances on the interval workouts, the heart rate is reaching the desired range. Hard to compare to last years training right now. While we had similar conditions last winter, I was also coming off of the Huff 50k last year as well when training began. Saturday’s long run got pushed back to Sunday for the second week in a row because of brutally cold temperatures.
Core workouts also began this week. My schedule for Core workouts is Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. I have been using the app Sworkit, which can be found in the App Store. I have started with a 20 minute workout with random core exercises lasting a minute each.

VO2 Max remains at 55.
Marathon prediction time remains at 3:00:04.
Until the roads clear up, these two levels probably won’t change much.