Parks Marathon and 9/26 - 10/2

I am once more trying to rebuild my running. Last year I had hoped to do a personal run I named the Parks Marathon. The plan was to run to several town parks and shuffle a mile on each one. I came up with nine parks. The run to and then the run at will put me close to the marathon distance. I can always tack on some extra mileage to finish out. Right now, however, I am simply not in form to do that. But maybe by the Christmas break at school, I can be fit enough to do this run that has been on my bucket list for over a year now.

Last week's training went like this:

Monday I went to the pool and swam

1,200
9 X 50 @ 1:12
150 easy
9 X 50 @ 1:12
150 easy
9 X 50 @ 1:12
150 easy
9 X 50 @ 1:12
150 easy
total: 3,600 meters

Tuesday was the first day this season that the kids did not swim. John and I got to stay a little longer and I did

1,600
5 X 400 @ 8:00
1 X 200 @ 4:00
800 small paddles
500 easy
1,000 easy
total: 6,100 meters. 

I also shuffled 4.05 miles so it was a pretty good training day.

Wednesday I swam

1,800
10 X 200 @ 4:20
10 @ 100 @ 2:30
total: 4,300

For some reason we did not swim Thursday. I think John wanted to rest. I ran 4.32 miles with some 5K race pace intervals thrown in. Right now 5K pace is a pedestrian 9:07 per mile. It will come back, however, if I can stay healthy.

Friday the water had dropped to about 75, pretty cool but not bad when moving. But standing around at the end of the pool was not very pleasant. I did

1,200
10 X 50 @ 1:12
200 easy
10 X 50 @ 1:12
200 easy
10 X 50 @ 1:12
200 easy
10 X 50 @ 1:12
200 easy
1,200 small paddles
total: 5,200 meters.

There was no swimming Saturday since CC wanted to hang out and there was a lot of SEC football on TV. I did get out for a 5.31 multi-paced run, and I lifted weights for the first time in several weeks.

For the week, I 

swam 19,200 meters
walked 2.85 and ran 13.68 miles, and 
lifted weights one time.

For the year, I am at 875 miles running and 708,582 meters swimming.