When you hit a milestone birthday you need to do something, right? One of my running friends, Mary did this so I figured I’d give it a try. I’m calling it the 50 at 50. Fifty miles in a week. We started out today with a nice 9 miles.
I’m also trying to bring in each run at a 9:50 pace. You can see I managed to nail it today.
I normally take Monday and Friday off but if you want to do 50 miles you can’t really do that so I just scheduled shorter runs. Just 4 miles today. I had some difficulty reading my pace on the watch so I was off on the pace a bit. I’ll do better next time.
The bigger mileage days start tomorrow.
A lovely 7 miles today as I’ve now crossed 20 miles for the week. Twenty miles is my normal weekly mileage but we’re not even halfway there yet.
The mileage is mounting but there is only about 15 to go. Tomorrow is a “day off” meaning that I only do 4 and I’ll save the rest for a last day long run. The end is in sight.
Got it my “short” run over lunch so I have now crossed 40 miles. That is now officially the most I’ve every run in a week (except maybe during high school?). I only have 9.5 miles to go to get to 50.
Got the 50th mile! I was going a little too fast but I figured that didn’t matter.
Here are the totals for the week
Feels good.
…and need a shave.
I did 3.10 for you today!
Dad
