Thursday - Long PPM

Despite fighting some wind and a little warmer day, I was able to convert my short PPM(4 miles) in 23:23 but totally died afterwards. Fortunately, I picked it up in the last mile or so and finished the 6 miles in 35:41, about 27 seconds faster than last week and a new best LONG PPM of 5:57!

The last two weeks may be the best training I feel like I've ever done, things are looking up for the race Sunday... I think I'll up my goal time to 37' flat.

Also, on advice from Colt, I'm gonna train right into the race, only taking the day before as an easy five miler, So tomorrow I'll be doing a 7 mile CT, see if I can nail this and go into the race strong!

Wednesday

Today I went out a nailed my 8 mile CT at 6:40 pace with a nice sized hill and rolling hills throughout the way. Getting ready for the big 6 mile PPM tomorrow, 'gonna hurt!

Training

Right now I've been following a training program called the PAAVO program that was reccomended to me by a buddy of mine. It has really increased the amount of quality miles I run and keeps me focused. The basic structure of the program right now is:

Monday: Long run
Tuesday: Short PPM
Wednesday: CT
Thursday: Long PPM
Friday: CT
Saturday: Longest Day CT
Sunday: CT

PPM is pace-per-mile and everything in the program is based off this pace. Basically, for the short PPM you run all out. On long PPM days the main goal is to hit your short PPM time on the way to the long PPM and just hang on for the extended distance.

CT is critical threshold and is about 45 seconds per mile slower than the previous PPM.

Background

I started this to log my training and show results from the Austin Distance Challenge. The DC is a series of 7 races ranging from a 10k to a full marathon in February. My main goals are to finish in the overall top ten and first in my age class... we shall see.