12 miles - totals?

Well, I am working on switching it up to the half marathon training.  Finishing off my last few 10K training items just cause I'm a bit OCD and I like seeing them all green, even if the training says 5 miles and I do 9 because that's what the half marathon training says.

So Sunday was my long run.  10K said to just do another 10 like I did last week which was my previous longest.  Half training says 14 miles.  OK, I'll split the difference and go with 12.  Well, the schedule got a bit off and I realized I just wasn't going to have time, so I went for Tuesday's 7 miles instead.

So the long run was Monday and I took Tuesday off.

Kinda crazy that now figuring out where I want to run is really becoming an issue with these longer runs.  After my 10 mile run on what I thought I might like better on more of a main road, I'm a little LESS likely to want to do those.  It wasn't THAT bad, but I still felt like I didn't like the increase in traffic so i've been back to my seasonal road.  But that maxes out at about 4.5 miles one way.  So I just did that, and then went on to Avoca, and right on through Avoca and out the other end.  Came back part of the way on the dike there to avoid being close to some of the cars, but that was a bit rough with 2feet of uncut grass just getting in the way with a decent amount of snow.

But it went rather well all things considered, though I am still definitely feeling the bottoms of my calves.  I rolled them Monday and this morning after a 10K through ankle deep snow.

Have to see about this weekend.  I think it's calling for 15 miles, but if I've still got some soreness from the 12, I may just split it again and go for the half marathon.


I was also curious to see just what my monthly totals were...
Let's see...
So apparently I started in September of 2013 and ran 7.2 miles.
October: 41.1
November: 59.8
December: 110.5
January: 112.9

And I've already done 38.3 in 5 days for February.

Hmm, that's surprising that there was so little increase from December to January...  Must be the 10K training was just holding even.  I guess it was more focused on speed than longer distances...