Summer catch up Boston build prep
Back at it with some running posts. Starting to prep for my Boston build up due to the BQ I got from queens.
A little context where I'm coming from at this point. After queens I played ball through March once a week while running 30-50 MPW. Really struggled over the winter due to not eating enough if I were to guess. I was trying to avoid living off junk food at the new year but I can't seem to find a way to sustain high calories on healthy foods. Problem for another time I guess, I went back to stuffing my face and it seemed to fix a lot of my issues.
After indoor ball I was a bit better throughout the summer, still played ball once a week every other week or so and lifted Mon / Wed / Fri and really never got locked in all summer but still felt like I was in Okay shape. Couldn't decide on a fast 5K so I ended up shooting for Lone Gull 10K again and ran 33:4X off pretty bad training. I was happy with the results all things considered and had a group of 5 friends running. Defended my title at the local 4.6 Miler I did last year but unfortunately had no competition. One kid went out fast and died on the steep hill about 1.5 Miles in. Lesson learned for the young fella.
I followed this up with two 5K wins that I did for fun. One with my old man and another with a work buddy. 5:16 pace and 5:17 pace for each. First 5K was flat and hot as hell for October standards (75 and sunny) and I had no competition after the first 1/4ths mile. The second 5K was about 35 degrees and very hilly. Typical New England November Weather. I actually had 2 highschoolers go out with me the first two miles but the hills wore them out. I actually felt horrible on the second 5K and both were during 70 mile weeks so I was very pleased. That's my PR pace but both "5K"s were not actual 5Ks. First was short and the second was long. Still happy to win.
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That brings me to now which is about 7 strong weeks of base building and doing some fun workouts with a young guy training to be a navy seal. He hit me up to see if I could guide him on some workouts etc...and it happened to be right as I was building up for Boston prep before I do any legit workouts. Seemed like a really fun way to get some track work in with no specific goal and make sure I don't burn out to early. Essentially took my 10K plan and pulled the speed stuff adjusted volume for him and let it rip. He's been killing it and set a new 1.5M PR (5:53 pace) after a few weeks of dialing in the runs. He was pretty fit before just lacked the structure and volume of a real running program that I helped out with.
Last 4 weeks of Strava activity has me at 73 MPW and that includes a few of those weeks with basketball, 3X lifting and racing mixed in there. I haven't felt this strong since my last Lone Gull block and really excited to see where a strong Boston build could take me. Looking at 2:40 but trying to be more realistic as I get closer to the race versus forcing it and hoping for the best.
Real Boston Training starts in about a month so I'm hoping to get up to 75/80 in the meantime and then start adding some quality mixed in while maintaining lifting 3X a week. I also helped coach a few friends of mine with running and lifting and found I really enjoyed it. Feel free to leave a comment with any questions if you need help with training.
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