The 108-mile Week

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-Marie and Mike O'Hara
-Barbara Groger

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The miles have been piling on, and as of recently, it has been especially hard with the cold (those in D.C. and the Northeast know exactly what I am talking about). Last week, on my long runs, the temperature at times was in the single digits (weather.com reported that it "felt" like -1!). Running along the Potomac River has not been kind.

Anyways, here are the last five weeks of my mileage:

Week of
		14-Dec	21-Dec	28-Dec	4-Jan	11-Jan
SUN	am	0	0	12.5	10.5	0
	pm	0	0	0	0	0
MON	am	8.5	8.5	0	8.5	8.5
	pm	0	0	0	0	0
TUE	am	14.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	14.5
	pm	0	0	4.5	4.5	4.5
WED	am	8.5	9	8.5	8.5	14.5
	pm	0	0	0	0	4.5
THU	am	13	0	8.5	6.5	8.5
	pm	4.5	0	4.5	0	0
FRI	am	4.5	8.5	30	34	30
	pm	4.5	0	0	0	10.5
SAT	am	22	26	0	10.5	12.5
	pm	0	0	0	0	0
		80	64.5	81	95.5	108

As you'll notice, there was a significant dip during the Christmas period, due to the problems with traveling up to Connecticut and back down to D.C. with Erin. Since Christmas, I have been pushing forward hard with my mileage however.

My main focus this previous week, and this current one, is to do a long run in the morning, followed by significant ones later in the evening and the following morning. I feel that this will help me prepare for the multi-day events and working better with soreness and stopping and starting (a critical transition in ultra's). As usual, I am focusing on pounding the pavement for more and more miles, getting better effort even though my legs are exhausted from previous days of training. Generally after some of these runs, like the one I did on Friday/Saturday, several days to a week are required for rest. I took Sunday off to allow some of my blisters to heal.

This week will be especially hard due to inaugural events in the District, but more importantly I will have one day less due to schedule changes with ROTC. Nevertheless, no time to rest. This will be the final week of pushing training before I am pretty much required to start tapering. In the coming weeks, I will taper down to about 70 miles, than about 50, and then do only about 20 miles or so the week prior to the race.

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