November 20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30 Dec 1


Monday – November 20, 2006
Training: 75 minutes
Day Mileage: 9.5 miles
Week Total: 9.5 miles
Where: Wolhusen
Weather: cold, high 30s
Details: Ran with Stevi today on a hilly route…good pace.

Tuesday – November 21, 2006
Training: 63
Strength: 6xstrides
Day Mileage: 9 miles
Week Total: 18.5 miles
Where: Steffisburg
Weather: warm for November
Details: Strides felt stale.

Wednesday– November 22, 2006
Training: 60
Strength: arms, legs, back, abs with no weights…
Day Mileage: 8.5
Week Total: 27 miles
Where: Aare
Weather: cool
Details: Ran with Ueli today so the time went by faster.

Thursday – November 23, 2006
Training: 60 minutes, 'up' pace
Day Mileage: 8.5
Week Total: 35.5
Where: Steffisburg
Weather: warm! 50s
Details: I'm healthy and can hold a good pace on my continuous runs for a long period of time and am feeling good. Now to add the two workouts a week…

Friday – November 24, 2006
Training: 60 minutes
Strength: 5xstrides
Day Mileage: 8.5 miles
Week Total: 43.5
Where: Neufeld with Astrid!
Weather: warm!!! Too warm for this time of year…
Details: Strides felt a little rusty, but we got them in!

Saturday – November 25. 2006
Training: 23 mins warm up, 10 minutes, 5 min, 5 min, 10 min harder paced fartlek, + recovery
Strength: 7 strides
Day Mileage: 90 minutes, 12 miles
Week Total: 55.5 miles
Where: Aare, Thun…ALONE!!!
Weather: warm
Details: Sybille was sick today and Astrid had a race so I had to work out alone!!! Got through it with sore legs, so at least I know I worked hard!

Sunday – November 26, 2006
Training: 110 minutes
Day Mileage: 15 miles
Week Total: 70.5 miles, 113.5km
Where: Wolhusen…
Weather: warm! Almost springish…
Details: Oh, my, goodness. I was absolutely DEAD after this run. We had to hike up the side of the mountain for a while… The Wolhusen hole. But the weather and the scenery was gorgeous!!!
Oh yeah, I guess everyone could tell how dead I was because I stopped talking and then like Ueli would try to talk to me and distract me from the pain and fatigue I was in! haha. I got through it though!
Jouhouuuu! Finally 70 miles!!!

Monday – November 27, 2006
Training: off day

Tuesday– November 28, 2006
Training: 51 mins
Strength: 5 strides
Day Mileage: 7 miles
Week Total: 7 miles, 11km
Where: Thun
Weather: hi of 50s, nice…especially for here!

Wednesday– November 29, 2006
Training: 75
Day Mileage: 10.5 miles
Week Total: 17.5, 28km
Where: Aare and Steffisburg
Weather: drizzly, cool
Details: Moderate long run…I pushed the first hour at a faster tempo and then jogged. I felt really good today!

Thursday – November 30, 2006
Training: 53
Strength: Abs, legs
Day Mileage: 7.5 miles
Week Total: 25 miles, 40 km
Where: Lake Thun
Weather: warm, 48 F
Details:

Friday – I can't believe it's December 1, 2006
Training: 64
Day Mileage: 9 miles
Week Total: 34 miles, 55 km
Where: Aare, Bern
Weather: warm
Details: Ran with ValĂ©rie again!!! It's always nice running with that girl, she always runs the same pace…Some people run fast and then slow and then change gears…She runs a nice steady pace the whole time so when I run with her, I always know that I'm going to have a good run!

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