Race season is upon me! This week is marathon week :) Well, half marathon for me. I'm feeling great and ready to race. It will be a tough day as I will not enter with any rest, but still expect to race well. I'm excited to get out there and see what I can do. Despite having a rest/travel week last week, my run felt strong. It was a long winter. It always is. Last year I would say the marathon somewhat snuck up on me. Really it wasn't the marathon, but balancing the marathon training with the bike and run. The marathon went fine, but I wasn't ready to race a quality half Iron 6 weeks later. I will be this year.
This week also really starts to incorporate more interval training to my program. This is super exciting as you can imagine how boring some of my training can get when you can't really alter your effort a ton. Intervals, speed work, etc make you stronger, but can also take a lot out of you. When looking at a peak race for the year of an Ironman in late August, I had to put in a lot of base miles during the winter and spring to be able to build properly into a quality racing season. Now, I get to start having more fun with speed work and most importantly...racing!! Boise is just around the corner. I'm debating on whether to do the Duck Bill as Meghan is actually out of town that weekend so I might just train instead. We'll see. I don't really care about that race. I care about Boise. And then the clock resets for 8 weeks until Penticton.
I have a good friend running Eugene with me. Hopefully we both enter the race injury free and ready to race. It should be a fun day! Thanks for reading,
-T
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