Half Marathon Update - Week 6

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Yesterday (Saturday) morning I had planned to go for a short (e.g. an hour long) bike ride with Dan but woke up really congested and feeling pretty awful.  Sinus infections are nothing new to me but this is the first one that I've had during half marathon training.  I decided not to go for a bike ride yesterday and I was a little nervous about how the group run would go today because not only was I sick but we were running hills.  Six miles of hills were on the schedule.  I spent quite a lot of yesterday thinking about running strategy and knew that since we were running six miles of hills that my pace would be slow.  I would be happy with a 12:00/mile pace that I could maintain for the entire run seeing as how six miles would be the longest distance that I've run.  I ran most of the distance with my teammate, Ed, until he pulled away at the last half mile to push toward the end.  The overall time was 11:42/mile and I was pleased with that given how I was feeling.

Here's what was on my training schedule:

Monday: Run, 5 miles

Tuesday: Cross train or Speed

Wednesday: Run, 4 miles, medium effort

Thursday: Strength

Friday: Easy 30 minutes

Saturday: Rest

Sunday: Run, 6 miles, hills

Here's what I actually did:

Monday: Run, 5.58 miles

Tuesday: Bike 7.26 miles, Strength train

Wednesday: Run, 4.55 miles

Thursday: Bike 13.08 miles

Friday: Run, 2.93 miles/Speed

Saturday: Rest

Sunday: Run, 5.90 miles, hills (that's what my watch said we ran)

I thought I did pretty good sticking to the training schedule though I know I need to work more on speed because I'd like to run faster I just don't know that I can and maintain the pace.  Towards the end of the run today I just didn't have it in me to go faster and that was disappointing to me.  I should probably remind myself of this fact when I go out to do a tempo/speed run this week and hate it the entire time.