Week 5: 19 miles

This was a week spent in DC, with a weekend trip to Kansas City. One of the revelations I've made during this training has been that travel does not mean a vacation from running. It may mean that cross-training is harder to do (no gym, no time or space for DVD workouts), but running is free, and as long as I have my legs and some pavement, I'm good to go.

Mar 28: rest
Mar 29: 45min mod - ~4.5 mi seriously uphill-then-downhill run from Rosslyn to Clarendon and back. Took ~43 minutes.
Mar 31: 50min easy - ran approx 5mi on the treadmill with speeds 5.0mph - 7.0mph, 5.5 total including walking for cool down.
Mar 31, Apr 1: walked a LOT on the apartment hunt. I think we walked approx 5 miles per day.
Apr 3: 9mi conv - ~9.1 mi loop in flat, sunny Kansas. Total time: 1:36:57, which included a 5:21 break after 6.5 miles.

I was SUPER proud of us for the 9-miler. We could have easily skipped this week's long run and chalked it up to an extremely busy week of birthdays, Passover, apartment hunting, and traveling. But we did it, and we did it well.

But I was starving for 3 days and my legs felt like lead, I'll say that much :)