Training Day 19 - Eleven

I've begun week 5 of my training plan. I felt I finished week 4 strong. This week has the standard 2 maintenance runs and only a 3 mile run on the weekend. Should not be too bad. Feeling good for the upcoming race in 11 days. The gym went well today. Afterwards, before starting my work day I came across a cool site: Team #runDisney. I'll write a separate entry on it, but it has a lot of posts about various people's experiences at runDisney events. It's been very enlightening what I've read so far. I really like the site.

Elliptical

Just Matt Smith days until
my next race!

Back to the gym, back to the elliptical, but not Back to the Future. Since I had a slower start out of bed and into the gym, I only had time for another 30 minute run. Went well. Pretty good pace. Not too tired or sore after. Felt good. Nothing much to report there.

I really want to start lengthening these run. I originally thought it'd be good to try and push my speed on the elliptical, but I think I'll actually look to keep my pace, but put more time. I switched from the beginner plan to the To Finish in the Upright Position plan after week 3, as the plan said I could, so now my maintenance runs are 30-45 minutes, so I have that option while still abiding by the plan. I think drawing out the gym run will be good for me. Now, if I could just get a little more motivated to be moving sooner, I could accomplish that. Granted, even with that, I may need to get up a little bit earlier anyway for it to all work out.

The Stats

Time: 30:00 mins
Distance: 4.15 miles
Average Speed: 8.3 mph
Average Pace: 7:13 min / mile