57 miles last week is finished! Considering that I'm not in my regular environment, not even on my regular continent, this is great. Especially that my tempo was decent: with fairly even pace I managed to do 6:30/mile for my 2 x 1.5 miles of tempo. The only blemish is that due to technical reasons I took a lot of recovery (2.5 miles) between the intervals.

Week of June 29th (starting today):
Total: 58 miles.
Long runs: 14 and 11 miles.
LT: 2 x 2 miles at threshold, 8.25 miles for the day.
Easy runs: 3 x 8.25 miles.

It won't be easy, especially because one day is basically out (Wednesday).

The June 8th week had a few mishaps. First, my tempo was lousy. I ran the first block of 1.5 miles fine, but I died after 1/2 mile in the second block. It was a bit warm and I just ran around the block for technical reasons, or I'm just in bad shape. In any case. I gave all I had, but I still couldn't maintain a 6:30 pace, not even for twice 1.5 miles.

Then I was flying across the Atlantic on Thursday, arriving on Friday, and I got sick with a stomach bug, and I had fever on Saturday. I didn't run for several days, so I finished the week slightly short (some 47 miles), and I resumed training carefully in the second half of the June 15th week finishing that week with only about half of the required mileage, and no long run.

I'm trying to resume normal training this week. I already ran 14 miles yesterday. Here is the week's program.

Total: 57 miles.
Long runs: 14 miles and 11 miles.
LT: 2 x 1.5 miles of LT intervals, total of 8 miles. Try 6:30 again.
Easy: 8 miles each.

Finished the 52 mile week with a bit of extra (maybe 1 extra mile), because I miscalculated the mileage and didn't want to run less than 25 minutes today. (I read it somewhere that it is not worth it to train less than 25 minutes.)

Next week (theoretically):
Total: 54 miles.
Long runs: 13 and 11.
Tempo: 2 x 1.5 miles LT intervals. Add a half mile easy jogging in the middle and some warmup and cooldown to reach 7.5 miles.
Easy runs: 3 x 7.5 miles.

That's right folks. We're starting hard work. I'll try to do my LT intervals at 6:30/mile. It really shouldn't be a problem. But I haven't done workouts for ever, so we'll see.

Finished my 50 miles Saturday night. My running buddy, Jim, was running 24 hours to raise money for autism treatment of children, and I joined him for two laps. I don't count those, because they are too slow, but I got in 5 miles between two of his laps in the middle of the night. If I count slow miles, I ran 16+, so I felt a bit beaten up today, and I took a rest day.

Next week (6 days left):
52 miles.
Long runs 13 and 10 miles.
Easy runs: 4 x 7.25 miles.
Speed: 8 x 100 meters strides.