2021 LBL50 Training Week 9

 October 26th to November 1st.
I've been slacking on my blog and now I'm trying to play catchup with it, along with a very hectic week coming up.
My running mileage so far has stayed pretty consistent, though  haven't rollerbladed in 3 or 4 weeks no since the crash... not necessarily because of the wreck but because I have been picking running over rollerblading.
I ran 60.9 miles during week 9, having to double days at the beginning.
Monday morning I went to the gym first and worked my glutes and back for a little over an hour.

Then I head to the river front to get a run in, the temp was cooler and I noticed my easy effort pace has gotten faster. I ran 7.1 miles with an easy effort 9:36 min/mile.

That afternoon it was still pretty cool at 51 degrees so I took Jetta with me for another 7 mile run which was surprisingly much faster than that morning. An average pace of 8:49 min/mile, very pleasing to see.
Tuesday I didn't make it to the gym but Jetta and I did go hit the trails in some mud, again I was very surprised of my pace. I ran 5.2 miles with an easy effort pace of 9:47 min/mile.

We ran again that afternoon, only 4 miles with an average pace of 9:40 min/mile with Jetta.

Wednesday I made it to the gym and hit the delts.

I went back home afterwards, probably because Dorian was awake. After taking him to school I took Jetta to the Evansville river front for a run. The first mile or 2 had me uncertain and I was very seriously considering turning back and heading back out to Warrick County, the amount of bums and suspicious people definitely had me a little concerned. But we kept going and things eased up, we ended up running 8.2 miles with an average pace of 8:52 min/mile.
Thursday morning I didn't go to the gym, instead I waited until after I dropped Dorian off at school and then took Jetta to the trails again. The night before had some serious heavy rainfall and we had some flash flooding. The woods were flooded, water was rushing out of the woods and off the "cliffs" into the river, the trails were under water with some all the way up to my knees. It was fun though, Jetta and I had a blast and ran 5.2 miles with an average pace of 9:57 min/mile.

Friday morning Jetta and I went out and ran 6 miles with an average pace of 9 min/mile, it was a little chilly with a breeze but overall it wasn't bad.
After getting home I decided to go ahead and see what the gym was like around 10:30 am as I was tired of only hitting the gym twice a week. It really wasn't that bad to be honest, I was able to get my workout in and I felt satisfied.

Saturday morning I decided not to run a very long run so I went ahead and took Jetta with me. It was a bit warm for her with the sun shining, but we did okay and we took it easy with some walk breaks. We ended up running 13.1 miles with an average pace of 9:07 min/mile.

I didn't take any fluids and fuel for this so I was a lot leaner afterwards than normally, I think I will do this for any of my runs that are not more than 18 miles.... no fuel or fluids.

Sunday morning Jetta and I headed to the riverfront to get in a quick run, it was 50 degrees but the sun was shining. I was the only one barely dressed as everyone else had long sleeves on.

So that gave me 60.9 miles for training week 9 along with hitting the gym 3 times and of course doing workouts at home.