Well, 93km is at the high end for a recovery week, but it felt quite good. First, it was a clear step down from 120 - 135km as in the weeks earlier. And second, the amount of training sessions was reduced from 9 or 10 to “only” 5. A mix of faster interval training and basic runs and at the end a really long one with fast elements inbetween.
The downer was the first interval session on Monday with planned 10 x 1000m. After five the times got really bad and after 8 they felt so difficult that I stopped there. It shows the weakness to keep a higher pace over longer distances, here beyond 5km in an interval training.
The highlights were two runs at the end of the week. Another long interval session, 5km + 3km + 2km in marathon pace. The long one, 5km, was in the end in 3:36min/km, and the last one, the 2km in 3:30min/km with the second km of those two in 3:27min. So some light at the end of the stamina tunnel seems to appear. The other highlight the long run, 32km with occasionally going towards marathon pace for one or half a kilometer, playing with speed all the time. It just felt good almost until the end. 32km was then quite long, but the music kept me going.
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