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