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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.
==August 2014==
My focus for August was recovering from Badwater and building my mileage backup. I experimented with doing my [[Downhill Running| Treadmill Descent]] runs as short second runs through the week, rather than one long treadmill descent on Fridays. This seems to work quite well, though the [[Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness]] builds up quite rapidly. I had a vacation to Iceland which was wonderful, but I didn’t run as much of their as I would like.
{| 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'''
|-
| August 2014||453||66||8:46||52||21
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| July 2014||387||78||12:03||46||135
|-
| August 2013||370||56||9:03||22||39
|}
==July 2014==
July was all about [[2014 Badwater 135| Badwater]], and my mileage was much lower due to the taper and recovery. If you exclude the race itself, I actually only ran 252 miles in July, which is remarkably low for me. That said, both the taper and recovery went remarkably well, as did the race itself. I'm also around 3,000 miles so far for 2014, and to my surprise, my rolling 12 month total is over 5000 miles. I'm not sure at this point how I will structure my training; should I continue with running frequently, or revert back to running four times per week? Initially I felt the more frequent running was helping me control my body weight, but now I'm less convinced.