Half Marathon, Baby

this was actually more than 6.5.. ran 3.5 to a beach, met friends, played 2 intense games of ultimate frisbee with semi-random people for like 2 hours, semi-injured my already-sore groin/hip flexor area, ran 3 back, after which the groin felt better. rough day lol. jake went to the track meet today, haven't heard his results yet. there's a tempo for tomorrow, but we may alter that, having both had decently hard days today.

edit: Jake ran 4:53. said he wasn't feeling great though from tuesday still. (he ran 4:46 before we started training).

i'm feeling like our training is getting inconsistent. a lot of it is probably recovery issues. the plan has been pretty much workouts while building up mileage 3 weeks in a row with a 4th week that drops down to recover some, then repeat. we did two 46 mile weeks instead of a 50 followed by 40 mile week, though i don't think it should be that big of a deal. i don't think that the early success in the workouts was just from being semi-fresh. i had still been running awhile before the workouts started. and i think that i have gotten something out of the workouts we have done so far. the turning point was the 5k race that we followed up with runs that were too fast for recovery and then some (sub-par) workouts. i think we have started to get back on the right track since last thursday. frisbee was probably a mistake, though. it will basically screw today's (Friday's) workout for me. the up-side is that it could be seen as sort of a speed workout. thoughts? anyway, easy days will be very easy for awhile, then i'll hitch up the mileage more. this week will be like 59.5 miles or something (since i plan to run on the 7th day). maybe i'll just make it 55, and go to 60, etc after a reduced mileage week next week. more thoughts? lol

edit: i'm calling this 8 since i want my weekly mileage to look right and want today to reflect the "frisbee mileage" lol