Marathon training, week 6

Happy Valentine's Day!

From the WWF calender in my cube! (Stuart Westmord/Getty images)

I bounced back from the race last weekend thanks to an awesome/excruciating massage on Monday and ran 35 miles as follows:

Tuesday - 7 miles on the track with TRIbe
                 warm up, drills, stadiums, strides
                 1600m, 2 x 800m, 3 x 400m, descending pace with distance
                 cool down, core, stretch
Thursday - 8 miles on the roads (Mountain View) plus drills and strides
Friday - 4 cruisey miles on trails (Baylands) *see note below
Sunday - 16 miles - 4 miles solo + 12 miles with run buddy AGA (Lexington Reservoir)

Garmin data from Sunday is here.  If the Garmin displayed fun you'd see a big increase when AGA showed up at mile 4!

The training weekend in pictures is here:

Baylands Park, cruisey Friday jogging loop

Riding with TRIbe on Saturday

Sunday on Los Gatos Creek Trail

Fundraising update:
The anonymous donations are killing me!  In a good way! Thank you Anonymous 2!  Your generosity is truly appreciated by me, my family, and the FARA community.

Note: "Cruisey" is an awesome Aussie word I learned from Chris McCormack.  I hope there's some training benefit from using the same vocabulary as the Ironman World Champion!  I work hard on the track and during long runs, but make a conscious effort to keep some days cruisey.  To me, that means "easy, light, and fun".

Macca and me in 2008