Ocean Drive Week 1 - 12.23.13-12.29.13

12.23.13 - 5.1m w/5x hill sprints - 8:17 avg pace - Heavy rain in the am squashed my planned 6-8 miles before work, but was able to squeeze in 5+ miles afterwards with some hill sprints to kick-off my 7th marathon cycle. Kept it short considering I had a quality workout in the morning planned.

12.24.13 - 12.22m w/12x400 w/400 rec - Decided to do workout on treadmill at Y today as not sure what shape the track was in at HS after all the rain the last few days. Ran to and from the Y to get my warm-up and cooldown in. 12x400s on treadmill at 6:30 pace. Last few felt hard but got'em done. Not real quality the last 5-6 weeks since Philly was the culprit of that. #dowork Glad to get back to some quality runs again though.

12.25.13 - SRD - MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

12.26.13 - 10.35m w/5m@MP (7:29, 7:34, 7:30, 7:32, 7:39) - Cut MP run short from planned 6m to 5m. Ran out of gas last couple of MP miles with holidays catching up to me a bit I think. Not a bad first MP run of the new cycle though. First run in the new Wave Rider 17s. Really smooth ride. Like them so far after first run. #BQin14 #waverider17

12.27.13 - 9.3m - 8:08 avg pace -  Switched it up today. 3.1 mile run to Y, 40min spin class w/some strength&core after, and 6.2 miles home. 9.3 miles total for the day. Legs felt pretty good after spin class all things considered. Going to have to try this again sometime.

12.28.13 - 12.4m LR - 8:25 avg pace - 12.4 miles for my LR this week with bulk of the miles on half course. BIG hills in the middle and some slow miles at the end meeting up with some friends doing a cooldown after a track workout. Solid first LR of the cycle. 

12.29.13 - 7.7m - 8:39 avg pace - 7+ miles to close out the first week of training for ODM. It was already raining when I started run but not topoint I could not get a decent run in today. Rain runs are good luck.:)

57.1 miles for Week 1. Pretty happy with mileage and how training has gone this week considering this was my highest mileage week since before Philly..