June 2008 Training

June was a month of continued training focused on the Gary Bjorklund Half Marathon. I trained hard at the beginning of the month with a long ANT workout and long 10K pace workout and long run each week. I was primed and ready to go. My best workouts in the build up to the half were an ANT session of 2x5 miles at ANT in 27:50 and 27:55 and a session of 24x 400m reps at 10k RP. During that workout I averaged about 1:13 per 400 and picked it up to 1:11, 1:10, and 1:05 for the last three.

The half marathon itself was great until mile 10. At that point I was right on pace, but really started to feel the past two days of work in my legs. I had to work with at the Duluth Running Company booth at the marathon expo and standing on my feet for 12 hours really took it's toll on me. I ended up running a 1:16, which is a PR, but not as fast as I wanted or was capable of.

As a result of this race I changed my fall race schedule to get one more crack at the half marathon distance this season. I will now be doing the Chicago distance classic half marathon the second week in August as well as the Twin Cities marathon in October.

The remainder of the month of June was filled with base work to rebuild for my fall marathon and half and to prepare for my next race - the Voyager half marathon.

Month Totals:
294 Miles
44 Hours

Year to date:
1554 Miles
258:30 Hours