Houston Marathon Training: Week 4 of 18

It's hard to believe I've finished 4 weeks of training already.

79¾ miles for the week

M – 5¾ miles recovery run, average pace 8:26 mpm, 82°F at 4AM [Dow/B-S]
M PM - missed (ran on Thursday evening)
Tu – 10 miles general aerobic, average pace 7:02 mpm, 74°F at 4AM [2xDow/Ol]
W AM - 7¼ miles general aerobic, average pace 7:34 mpm, 70.3°F at 4AM [S-B/Dow/B-S/Ol]
W PM – 8 miles general aerobic, average pace 6:53 mpm, 80°F at 7PM sunset to moonrise [B’Wood track]
Th AM – 4¾ miles recovery run, average pace 8:04 mpm, 72°F at 4AM [Dow]
Th PM – 6 miles recovery run, average pace 8:18 mpm, 82°F at 7PM, way too many mosquitoes in the woods [SeaC/Ntrail-/SeaC]
F - 12 miles medium long run, average pace 7:25 mpm, 81°F starting at 10AM, sunny [SeaC/NTrail-2M1M-2M/SeaC]
Sa – 7 miles recovery run, average pace 8:44 mpm, 86°F at noon, mostly cloudy [SeaC/Ntrail/SeaC]
Su – 19 miles long run, 7:52 mpm, heavy rain the first 9 miles and then sunny and very humid the next 10 miles, 79°F to 84°F starting after 10AM [Oak-OCD-S.Oak-RR-Oak//SeaC/Ntrail-2M1M/SeaC]


I stayed pretty close to the Pfitz 18/70+ schedule again this week. This week will require some re-arranging for Sunday's 10-miler. I haven't run a race since July, so I'm really looking forward to this one. It would be really nice if that cold front would actually come through this weekend.