After CIM, I remember thinking about how tough the marathon is on our bodies. Rest and recovery is so critical to our long term success and as much as we want to jump right back into training, it's much smarter to ease our way back. It's been eight and half weeks since the marathon and I feel really good and ready to start training again. The last few weeks have been a nice transition of lots of easy runs, getting back to longer runs and a tiny bit of fast stuff.




Here's what last week looked like:

 Monday January 22nd - 4 easy miles (Monday is an optional rest day or very easy miles. I wanted to shake out my legs from 13 miles the day before and a four mile trail run was just what I needed.)

 Tuesday January 23rd - Seven easy miles

 Wednesday January 24th - 2 mile w/up, 15 x 1:00 on (1:00 jog), 2 mile cool down. 
Incorporating some speed back into the legs. 5:25 - 5:50 pace on the these one minute repeats and I felt like my legs were ready for a bit of speed! 8 total miles

 Thursday January 25th - 7 easy miles

 Friday January 26th - 10 miles (easing back into double digit weekday runs)

 Saturday January 27th - 7 miles


Sunday January 28th - 14 miles (at 7:40 pace). I ran this on the treadmill, but I was able to settle into it and run a good effort, not at all hard, but a good pace.

 Total Miles for the week: 57

 Total January Miles: 181.1

 Onward to February, friends!
What are you most looking forward to in February?

 How do you feel about your beginning of the year fitness?

 Do Awesome Things.

 xo,
Natalie