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13 Weeks to 13 Miles! OUC Orlando Half Marathon Training: Week 6

New decision made. I'm only blogging actual run days from here on out. Those added days are just taking up my time and since this is mostly to look back at myself and see how I did (and no one else is likely to ever read them), I'm not writing about those anymore. This is officially our "off week." We literally have two 3 mile runs... and that is it. Not complaining. I need an off week. I'm glad that Track Shack threw this one in there.

Tuesday
Plan: 3 Miles, Actual: 3.12 Miles
Technically, I probably should have run 3.4 miles in order to make up for the .4 that I missed last week... but I didn't. So, that's that. It was actually a great run though. I ended up finishing with a 12:35 pace which ended up being my fastest pace using the 1:1 intervals so far. It just felt like a good run too. I find these shorter runs are definitely becoming easier. I would have liked a slightly cooler morning though. Fall can come at any time. I have taken to just doing a loop on the road behind our house. It is 1.5 miles one way so a 3 mile run is an out and back. I love it because it keeps me off the main road and it doesn't involve a lot of hills. I should probably train on hills... but I know that the OUC Half route is mostly flat so I'm not really worried about it.

Thursday
Plan: 3 Miles, Actual: 3 Miles
I have to admit, I'm so excited this is the last run for the week since this is our off week. I need this off time. This was a run that I did not really want to get up for. As usual, I'm glad I did. I took it slow though. Kept my 1:1 intervals but paced at 13:25 per mile. Not sad. I'm even okay with maintaining that for longer runs. We will see how that pans out when we run 7 miles next week. However, that 7 miles will be split. More on that next week. For this run, it felt good. Mainly because of my slower pace. I wasn't too tired and I knew I wouldn't be sore at all the next day. Still having that strange pain in my lower calf. No idea what that is. It just won't seem to go away. Just praying I make it the rest of this training cycle and through the race without any major issues. That pain alone is a good reason I'm all for keeping my 1:1 intervals at this point.

Another week down. Next week starts the more intensive period up until we taper for the week before the race. Let's get this done!

Weekly Training Miles: 3.12
Total Training Miles: 59.64

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