End of Week One (11/9/07)

Not great, maybe not even good, but I’ll take it.

This is beginning of my Base building phase. The schedule called for me to get in four runs. For this week, all runs were to be 3 miles and run at my goal Marathon Pace. Well I got in all my runs, but had to cut some

The plan total weekly miles was 12, I ran 10.5.

The majority of times when I have been sidelined with injury, it was due to problems with my calf muscles. Starting this week with very little base conditioning; I was listening real close to my body. There might be some paranoia in play, but I was feeling something down there that concerned me. I really did not want to bonk on this plan in the first week.

Saturday afternoon I was able to keep up the pace and felt like I could have run farther or faster. Since the plan called for 3 miles, I had no intention of going farther. Toward the end of the run, the calf felt tender. Tuesday morning, I felt slight pulling of the left calf after only a mile and decided to stop at 2 miles.

Wednesday was a welcome day of rest. I went into the Thursday and Friday runs planning on running slower than Marathon Pace. It worked well. I completed my last two runs of the week, feeling good. I didn’t run all the miles I planned. I did not run the pace I planned, but I did get all my runs in and will be entering Week Two without problems.