Today was another 6 mile run during lunch. I opted to go during lunch because it's still light out, and with weather on the way I didn't want to deal with running at home after a few inches of snow had potentially fallen.
This was my typical 6.3 mile loop at work, but I ran it a bit faster than normal due to a time crunch I had to be back for. As a result, my HR was a bit higher than I'd have liked for a base building run (HR=155) - so at the top end of the easy pace range, but still within it.
The best news, though, was that the IT band didn't bother me at all. So, considering that with all the rolling and massaging and such that I've been doing the past few days, yet continuing to maintain the hour or so per day of workouts - the fact that it has been subsiding is good news. I take that to mean that I'm staying ahead of it, as opposed to treading water or even worse, falling behind.
I'm real curious to see how things will pan out next week after the 30k race on Sunday. I've been tossing around in my head how to approach it - initially I wanted to try and get all 18 miles at marathon pace, knowing that would be pushing it - but now I'm second guessing that approach. If it were the only stressful workout thus far, then that might be a different story - but on the heels of this IT band, I don't think I want to push it that much. I may do something like one mile easy, two miles marathon pace - rinse and repeat 6x. That way I still get 12 total miles @ marathon pace, but some down time in between to let things catch up. Depending on how things go, I'm not opposed to taking walk breaks after each two mile MP segment - but I'd like to see how things go if I don't.
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