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Time to Pretend

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Three weeks until a variation of Big Dance where I hope its a party all the way to Boylston Street and I don't leave the show heartbroken. I've made it a point to spend some high-end aerobic quality time out on Cedar Lane and East Lindsey to best invoke a similar stimulus to the quads, hammys, and gastrocs. The last three weeks following the Little Rock debacle I've been holding at 120+ miles and have had some good efforts. Basically, I've tried to just raise the bar from the fall in terms of specific marathon quality perhaps in lieu of the 5-10k modeled work, we'll see what that does for me.
Since I've slacked so much with the blog, I'll put up the obligatory sample week for what was a good week for me and open myself up to the critics out there in the ether:
M- am 84' and 5 strides
pm 49' w/ 8 strides
T- am 70'
pm 33', 12 x walnut hill(12-15seconds), 5' home
W- am 4 mi, 5x 2mi on the roads w/ ~2' jog (10:52,:42,:46,:52,:39), 2 mi
pm 41' and 4 strides
Th- am 15+mi uptempo 1:39
pm 36' jog
F- am 65'
pm 38' and 6 strides
Sa- am 7mi w/ 6x 1on/off, strides, stood around for 8', then banditted a 5k (14:30 at 5-5:10 pace), 20' w/ light strides to Panera
pm 38', 10x walnut, 3' home
Su- am 2:33: ran the 17 mi Bobcat steady, then progression run 3.5 mi and 1.5 mi jog= solid 22
~128 for the week, slightly higher than the average for this block
That is going to do it for this entry, it's hOUR NORMAN

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