State of My Running

The state of my running is - strong. 7 races so far this year, 3 PR's and many of these races have been run on back to back weekends - really stressing the importance of diet in active recovery. And I do feel that it has been primarily my diet that has allowed me to not only recover but to progress as well (yeah, I know, I've stressed this before) It has caught up with me a little though - recently there has been some lingering soreness in my calves and I think this is mainly due to the speed of the last few shorter races. They seem to be me up a little more than the long stuff. As for changes - I'm adding in a "trackless, treadmill track workout" taken from Run Less, Run Faster as well as incorporating their tempo trainig although I will likely make a few changes (longer on the long days) And I will be running more than the authors call for as volume really seems to help with the ultras - at least for me. I'm excited about the speed work. I do want to PR in both a 5k and a marathon this year along with a strong (sub 8 hour?) performance at CAT this July. A little extra speed along with the resiliency that comes with speed work certainly won't hurt. Well, as long as I'm careful as speed work can be trickey on recovery and this program does up the intenisty. So careful monitoring is in order.
And coming up?
Next weekend is the Annapolis 6 hour times run with The North Face Endurance Run (50k) two weeks after - both will be low pressure races - the timed run for training and NFE will most likely be a pace run for Moca and Matt. The big race for the summer will again b CAT and then prepping for the Air Force Marathon in September. After that it's training for Stone Mill 50 again in November. It's a great time to train and to race!

Peace,
Eric