Build Up Going Smooth

For the past several weeks, I have been trying to get into top form prior to hitting a new season of running. I've slowly built up my weekly tempo run to 6 miles running at 7:30 pace. My 10K pace 2 years ago was right at 7:00. My speed work is going well too. I'm trying to mix it up so I don't get bored doing the same workout over and over. Currently, I am doing my speed work at about 6:30 pace. It is feeling really good which means I'm not totally pushing it. When I finish these workouts, I feel like I could do either .5 more miles or 1 more interval.

My runs on the week-ends are going well. I'm running anywhere from 20-25 miles with one day being 12-16. All I'm trying to do with these runs are run as slow as I can stand and try to build up some endurance. It's easy to do that on a treadmill and as I found out this past week-end, it's not so easy do on the streets. I ended my 14 miler with an 8:50 average pace but I felt like I was running 9:15 pace. Guess that's a good sign.

I also run a little recovery run of 3-4 miles between my tempo and speed work days. With all that said, my weekly mileage is about right where I want it to be. I'm averaging anywhere from 32-40 miles per week.

I don't have any races coming up. Unfortunately, I won't be able to run the Lincoln Memorial since I'll be in Palm Springs and the Half in Champaign is out. I do plan on going to Bloomington to run the Lake Run in early May and will follow that up with the Passavat 10K in Jacksonville later in May.