12/23 - 12/29

Mon: 6-miles treadmill (3-miles @ 7:20)
Tues: 6-miles
Wed: Off
Thurs: 7-miles
Fri: 6-miles
Sat: 10.5-miles
Sun: 6-miles
Total: 41.5 miles

Between the Christmas and traveling, it was a rather "light" week in terms of training. I did manage to run every day except for Christmas, except I didn't get a lot of miles in on those days. Oh well.

Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday all went pretty well. My legs were definitely tight, especially my calf (my toe hurt every time I put boots on for Christmas Eve and day). It was also cold, and actually snowed a bit on Thursday (I had intended to run longer that day, except the roads were pretty slippery). Saturday's run was pretty miserable. I was exhausted since we had got in around midnight the night before. Sunday's run was also miserable because it was pouring rain the whole time.

Monday's treadmill run went well. I did 3-miles at my "if I ran this I would skip across the finish line" marathon pace. I varied the incline between 1-3% in 0.5% increments every 1/4 mile. Then, I did an extra 0.5-miles at 1% incline at <7:20 pace to practice finishing strong. My calf and IT band kind of hurt when I was done though.