Stuck to my plan this week

Actu­al­ly, my plan was for four runs: Mon­day, Tues­day, Thurs­day Fri­day. Instead I ran Mon­day, Wednes­day, Thurs­day, Sat­ur­day. Total miles this week: 17.65. I watched my pace slow as the week went on, so for next week I think I’ll short­en two of the runs and maybe make them hill runs. I can feel my legs wish­ing I had­n’t gone out today, but that’s tem­po­rary. I’m not plan­ning on rac­ing tomor­row, so the vari­a­tion from my planned sched­ule means I cheat­ed myself out of a two-day rest peri­od. That means a Mon­day hill run will be good for me, to change things up a bit. This week was all flats.

My step­sis­ter wrote to tell me that she’s com­ing out West for the Big Sur Marathon in April. I’m toy­ing with the idea of tar­get­ing that as a first marathon. Eight and a half months is plen­ty of time to work up there so long as I stick with it. It looks like a gor­geous course, and it would mean seri­ous­ly step­ping up my training.