Less than 8 weeks to the TCS New York City Marathon: Last week's training

I would call the half-marathon at the Great North Run last weekend a success. It was my second fastest half (62:19), and I was competitive, with a 5th place overall finish in a very strong field. I was fortunate to have a group to run with for the majority of the race, and fellow American, Scott Fauble and I were able to battle it out until the end. The Great North course is very hilly and unforgiving, so I see it as a perfect tune-up race heading into the rest of my NYC Marathon training. I am surprisingly sore following the race, but I really did go into the well. I am also traveling back to the US this week after a long summer in Europe, so it's perfect timing for a low intensity week. I will get in as much volume as I can, but the main goal for the week is recovery before the final 7 weeks of training.

The race took on some extra meaning as it was the first time in years that my wife and I were able to race at the same time. We were able to leave the baby with her mom in Czech and Eva crushed it with a 2 minute PR at 76:10. We are both on track for NYC!

I did rest for a few days before the race, but I did my best to keep the volume relatively high the first half of the week. The only workout for the week included 1k repeats at half-marathon pace with fairly short rest. Feel free to check out the full week below.

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105	Monday	9/3/2018	AM: 14, 45 minutes strength PM: 6
	Tuesday	9/4/2018	AM: 12.5 + drills and strides PM: 6
	Wednesday	9/5/2018	AM: 10 x 1000m @ 2:57, 1 min rest PM: 5
	Thursday	9/6/2018	AM: 11, 30 minutes light core and stretching PM: 6
	Friday	9/7/2018	8 miles easy
	Saturday	9/8/2018	5 miles easy + drills and strides
	Sunday	9/9/2018	Great North Half marathon