Week 7 of training for the TCS New York City Marathon absolutely FLEW by!! I can’t believe how quickly this training block is progressing! This was a big week, with my highest weekly milage since September of last year (that will be the trend for the rest of this cycle lol) and a long run that absolutely kicked my ass! Going into this cycle I told myself I would use my runna plan as a guideline but not a hard rule, and if I’m being honest I have kept to it exactly and it’s been messing with my head! I love the speed work, just not multiple times a week. And the long runs with pace goals are nice but I also have had 2 weeks in a row of a tough workout in my long run that I failed. Would I have hit my targets if I was running at home, early in the morning, on relative flat terrain? Yes. But I chose to branch out and run in different places with new friends and the important thing is I got the miles in! I’m really looking forward to week 8 being a down week, give got a lot of fun ac...