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Week of 2026-10-05

Miles: 47.54

Days run: 5

  • Mon — 6.03 — three easy runs, first with the high school varsity boys
  • Tue — 0
  • Wed — 8.29 — easy mountain dirt, ~768 ft
  • Thu — 5.19 — easy dirt (planned off)
  • Fri — 3.02 — easy with the high school varsity boys (planned off)
  • Sat — 25.01 — easy, 9:11/mi, unplanned, keeping a friend company on his ultra training
  • Sun — 0

Long: Saturday's 25.01. It wasn't planned and it wasn't a workout.

Quality: none.

What died: the plan. It called for 12–16.

Next week: Deliberately easy, about 18–24, with no long run, quality, or strides.

The sheet said short easy runs with off days in between. I ran about three times that, all of it easy. St. George plus Saturday adds up to about 51 miles of long efforts in eight days. After Saturday: "No pain. Legs are tired, but very normal feeling." Coming out of it fine doesn't make it the plan. Next week is the plan.

The block I used for St. George is free if you want it.