This week actually turned out to be a great week of running for me. As I mentioned in last week’s post, I decided to try something a bit different this week. I decided to run just 2 miles at a time. Since that isn’t much running, I ran doubles for the 3 days that I was running just 2 miles. Just focusing on 2 miles at a time helped me mentally. Also, running doubles for the first time, and for 3 days in a row was a rather interesting experience. I know it’s nothing like the mileage that elite runners do when they run doubles, but just the aspect of having to get dressed to go running and to go out the door twice in a day was actually fun.

After the three days of running 2 mile doubles, I went back to running once a day, but just ran 4 or 5 miles.

At the end of the week, I ended up doing all my runs at sub-10 pace and I ended up running eight days in a row. The last time I had a stretch of consecutive sub-10 runs was back in May. Of course, back then, the number of miles was much higher that what I ran this week . And I’ve never run eight days in a row either.

So, I’ve ended the week at 25 miles. It’s not the kind of mileage I expected to running at this point when I started training, but maybe this is just what I need as Chicago approaches….a little confidence.