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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 9

by Team Hargrave on August 30, 2010

6 More Weeks Until Chicago Marathon!

It has been a while since we were able to post on Monday! This week is going to be a little different…Lee will be in Camarillo, CA for work so we will be doing different workouts all week. In fact, Lee is going to tour the local CrossFit boxes so he has no idea what is in store for him! Since we don’t know what workouts we will be doing, we are just going to post what kind of workouts we are looking for.

Chicago Marathon is only 6 weeks away! How is your training coming along?

*We will be putting on some additional miles throughout the week. These runs are always done at a very easy pace and we will not be tracking the mileage for those.

We have included our workouts below. Most of our paces are calculated for a 4:10 marathon time from the McMillan Running Calculator.

Monday: CrossFit Endurance Workout at GSX CrossFit

Tuesday: 10k Tempo Run: 85% for first 5k then pick it up to 95% for last 5k (morning) CrossFit Workout (evening)

Wednesday: CrossFit Workout

Thursday: 2×5/5×1 – 2 x 5-min intervals with 2 min recovery after each. 5 x 1-min intervals with 30 sec recovery. Hold distance on each interval.

Friday: CrossFit Workout

Saturday: CrossFit Workout at the free Saturday morning workout with lululemon Fort Worth

Sunday: Yasso 800s – recovery jog for the same amount of time it took to complete your 800 (Our target is 4:00 – 4:10 for each 800. Once we can’t finish in this time we will stop the workout) (morning) CrossFit Workout (evening)

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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 8

by Team Hargrave on August 25, 2010

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Wowsers…another busy week! Last weekend we got a chance to escape the Texas heat and spend some quality time with the Hargrave family in Illinois…plus we got to run it out with our pal Jenn and the Gateway Team in Training crew. This week we are focusing on a very important aspect of marathon training…sleep! We have some pretty light days at the beginning of the week and will focus on hard, quality workouts late in the week.

*We will be putting on some additional miles throughout the week. These runs are always done at a very easy pace and we will not be tracking the mileage for those.

We have included our workouts below. Most of our paces are calculated for a 4:10 marathon time from the McMillan Running Calculator.

Monday: Rest day…was supposed to be CrossFit workout at T3 in Lee’s hometown…but the instructor didn’t show!

Tuesday: Intervals+: 2 x 800m holding best possible pace, not slowing more than 3 sec w/ 2 min recoveries. 2 x 1000m holding best possible pace, not slowing more than 5 sec w/ 2 min recoveries.

Wednesday: Baseline 8x – 8 x 200m. Hold each 200m within 2-3 sec. Rest 90 seconds between intervals.

Thursday: Deadlifts: 5-5-5, 3 Rounds for time of: 500m row, 12 Bodyweight Deadlifts, 21 Box Jumps (24″/20″)

Friday: 5-5-5-5-5 Back Squat with 30 sec Handstand hold after each set

Saturday: 10k time trial (morning), 150 M Row, 30 Power Cleans @ 95/65, 20 Pullups, 20 Burpees, 30 Back Squats @ 95/65, 150 M Row (evening)

Sunday: Rest and Relaxation

Lee & Ben scoping out a location for a CrossFit workout

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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 7

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Wowsers…it has been a busy week or two for The Running Couple! Just to update you on what is happening behind the blog/Twitter/Facebook…we’ve signed on to Athletes HoneyMilk to work as part of their social media team (super excited!), Lee and some friends just put on a huge CrossFit competition at the Dallas Convention Center, [...]

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Chicago Marathon Training – Week 6

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Wanted to show a picture since we are doing this series on our training for the 2010 Chicago Marathon. This is us at the 2006 Chicago Marathon…and the beginning of The Running Couple! This race inspired Isis to start running and even though she has re-thought that decision several times, she will be lining up [...]

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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 5

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Ten more weeks… Yep, for those of you who will be joining us in the starting corrals for the 2010 Chicago Marathon we have 10 weeks of training left. Seems like a lot doesn’t it? Maybe for some of us it doesn’t, but trust your training and you will be ready for the 26.2 miles [...]

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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 2

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Well…last week was a tough week for us to get in our scheduled workouts. We had a very rainy week here in Texas and a lot of social events late in the week. Needless to say, we didn’t get all the workouts in. While it may be easy to get down on ourselves, we are [...]

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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 1

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Have you been wondering why “The Running Couple” is all of a sudden going “paleo” and talking a lot more about CrossFit on Twitter? We know some of you are because it has sparked a lot of conversation lately around how we are training for the 2010 Chicago Marathon. We will be training a little [...]

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Paleo Kitchen Makeover

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Lee and I have been dabbling in the idea of going Paleo for a while now. We have always been inspired by CrossFitter’s Lindsey and Web Smith in Austin, and now that Lee recently got CrossFit Endurance certified we thought it was time to make the switch. It also helped that we checked out my [...]

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