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A Bus Ride I Will Never Forget and Pre-Peak Week Thoughts

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I don’t know what’s currently crazier: the fact that it’s snowing in Illinois in April or the fact that I’m one week away from my taper for the Illinois Marathon. Within the last three weeks since my last blog post, I have put up some serious good volume by closing out the month of March with 288.23 miles. Some of the key workouts I have put up in the last 3 weeks include a 3-2-1 tempo ladder workout, an 8 mile progression working down to tempo pace before Spring Break (graduate researchers don’t take time off though), 10 mile tempo at 6:38 pace, treadmill intervals working down to 6:15 pace, and a 14 miler at sub-marathon goal pace. These have all been in the past three weeks (and I’m still not listing some key workouts)! Since my last blog post, I have ran with the newest Brooks Adrenaline GTS model, and I will actually break in another pair starting tomorrow to give myself the opportunity to use either of the shoes for the actual Illinois Marathon race. I have had
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66 Mile Week, Reflections and Goals, and A Possible Boston Qualifier Attempt

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I just ran 66.20 miles this week (the highest mileage week in my life by 6 miles), and I feel great. I have run 13 days consecutively without break. My body feels fresh. There really is no pain or mobility issues. Now it’s time to reflect on what’s been done on this cycle and look forward to the future. Reflections There are less than 7 weeks left until the Illinois Marathon. I haven’t written a blog posts in the last 3 weeks since I’ve been busy with school and research. Surely these three weeks have been crucial for my training. I have been thinking a lot about my future as a runner, the goals I want to accomplish, and the races I want to run. One resolution that I made for myself for the New Year was to run more easy mileage and try to reduce my volume. I have in fact met the first resolution but definitely not the second. This is pretty conclusive based on some data that I have. As a graduate researcher, you basically design experiments
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