2018 Week 3: Maintaining The Weekly Groove

Indoor Track Work

"Taking charge when the weather can’t make up its mind"

That was pretty much summed up last week and continuing on with this week. I switched to an indoor track for my workout. (A) to remind myself of how great it is to not run with some much layers (B) break in my new pair of shoes and (C) get a decent focused training session with minimal disruptions

I went down to the Monarch Park stadium at around Coxwell and Danforth area primarily for their 370.67 metre track (measured from the centre lane and red line around the corners). Other indoor tracks work too, such as York University's Toronto Track and Field Centre or the indoor running tracks within my local community centres in Markham. However, those track laps are significantly much shorter with approximately 240 and 150 metres respectively.

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Gradual Mileage Increase

This year, I am also attempting to raise my weekly running mileage and ultimately pushing the annual goal boundary too. Last year, I set a modest mileage of 60 km / week. And by trying to stick with the program, I realized that I once again have to be even better at my time management skills - as if I haven't already done so. However, life happens and so do injuries along the way. So it goes along way to compromise my regular day-to-day priorities along with my running hobbies. At the end of it all, I managed to rack up approximately 2,800 km. Not bad but fell short of my personal goal of 3,000 km.

The realistic goal for this year would once again be 3,000 km. But I am raising the bar higher to 3,200 km. In other words, I am once again setting my weekly goal of 60 km plus an extra 5 for good measures if in the case of any minor setback.

I came across an interesting article from Runner's World, suggesting of the 6 training habits that lead to Boston qualifying times - according to Strava. I feel confident knowing that the tailoring for this year's training is mostly aligned to what the article states.

The Strava 40|80 Challenge hosted by Lululemon was also great motivation to kick start the frequent running habits to. By the end of the event, I managed to rack up roughly 82 km within 13 days. Hopefully my drive towards improvement continues on for the remainder of the year, and not limited to just being motivated by prizes and tangibles ??

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Have a great week everyone! - M.W.

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