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This is not the log of each workout I do, but rather a higher level summary of what's happening with my training overall. For a detailed log, I use [[SportTracks]] and publish to [[Dailymile]] at http://www.dailymile.com/people/JonathanS.
==April 2014==I ran [[2014 Umstead 100|Umstead 100]] only four weeks after the [[2014 Graveyard 100| Graveyard 100]], and I'd not sufficiently recovered. Most of April has been recovering, so mileage is a little lower than it would otherwise be. I also have the Keys 100 six weeks after Umstead, so that will also be a challenge. I'm continuing my experiment with running more frequently, thought the more frequent races make it hard to evaluate the effects. The extra runs are a nice time to experiment, but not surprisingly the distance and effort in these extra runs has to be carefully managed. It seems like even a trivial increase in distance in the shorter runs causes a dramatic impact on fatigue. I've also used the shorter runs to include some more [[High Intensity Interval Training]] which is another confounding factor. {| class="wikitable"| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Miles'''| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Hours'''| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Avg Pace'''| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Num Runs'''| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Longest'''|-| April 2014||416||66||9:27||56||100|-| March 2014||446||68||9:06||59||100|-| April 2013||237||38||8:28||18||62|}==March 2014==
At the start of March I had a good race at the [[2014 Graveyard 100| Graveyard 100]], finishing 4th. My recovery went reasonably well, but there is only a four week gap to the Umstead 100 at the beginning of April. I continued my experiment with running more frequently, which seems to be effective, though the issue of recovering from Graveyard and tapering for Umstead makes this an odd month.
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