Tempo, Fartlek, Long Run, week 1 is done
The first week of half marathon training is over. It wasn't too intense, but we definitely worked hard. Monday Strava Monday was the tempo run. I did pretty well, running at about 8:06/mile. I recognize that 8:06/mile is a long way off where I would eventually like to be, but I'm happy with it this week. That's the exact pace I ran in the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot in 2014, and that was one of the fastest races I've run (since high school at least). Wednesday Strava I did 6 miles of speed work on Wednesday. Honestly, it was pretty easy as far as speedwork goes. I did 5 fartleks of about 1/4 mile each, with about 3/4 mile of easy jogging in between. It was a kind of easy way to get back into speed work. My pace during the fartleks was around 6:15/mile or a bit slower. Not super slow for me. Not bad for the first speed work of this round of training. In the evening we did strength training. I don't really know what I'm doing here, so I just fo