I’m in the middle of my peak week in the lead up to Rabid Racoon and I’m just . . . cruising. Physically I feel good. My legs are much closer to the fresh end of the spectrum than my normal peak week mostly thrashed end. Mentally I’m in an even better place. Lots of training miles normally weighs on me and drags me down a bit (or more than a bit if I’m being honest). Not this time. I’m just. . . cruising. All the miles, all the early alarms, all the time on feet, all the effort has me feeling rock solid. I wanted a big training block to build a very solid base for all the races I’ve got planned for the year and I think I’ve executed this about as well as possible. There’s always a long list of things I could be doing, but doing everything is doing too much. This feels like the right balance for me.
Here’s a recap of my current training block (weeks ending):
- 1/4 – 47 miles
- 1/11 – 60 miles
- 1/18 – 59 miles
- 1/25 – 132 miles (Angela Ivory)
- 2/1 – 27 miles
- 2/8 – 52 miles
- 2/15 – 61 miles
- 2/22 – 66 miles
- 3/1 – 71 miles
- 3/8 – 54 miles
- 3/15 – 21 miles leading into Rabid Racoon
This will be my biggest training block heading into a hundred mile race. Typically I’ll do 600-700 miles in the hundred days leading up to the race. Last year I was in the 700s for all my races. My highest 100 day block was 800 miles leading up to 2021 C&O where I set my at the time PR for hundred miles. I’m tracking to be above 840 miles so just massive sustained mileage for me. I’m really interested to see how this translates into race day performance. Last year I had a very low 543 miles before RR100 so it’s possible I can knock a couple hours off my finish time.
Not too many runs left. . .