Starting, Pausing, and Re-Starting TC 10 Mile Training (with a Hilly Moderate Run)

As I mentioned at the bottom of my post about a run with a CRAZY HIGH dew point, I have (loosely) started training for the 2026 TC 10 Mile. I tried to kick that off a week ago with a hilly moderate run... a training run I remember having from Coach Jen as I was leading up to the 2010 TC 10 Mile where I PRed with 59:05. I hadn't looked back on my training from that year (or from 2024 where I used a similar version of those training runs) partly because Beginner Triathlete stopped hosting training logs and it's much harder for me to look up old workouts again. But I knew I had a hilly mid-week run in my first week of training.

I looped around some hilly areas between my house and the river:

Same map, but showing arrows pointing UPhill.


Up and down all the time.


Turkeys on my run - mama had a bad limp!

Normally, my easy mid-week runs are around 5.5 to 6 miles with less than 200 feet of elevation change:

A mid-week run from a few weeks back.

But this run was of "normal" length but 2.5x hillier:

Just an easy/moderate run like this made my left calf feel very odd for a few days. I thought I did a basic training run that ended up canceling my 10 Mile training just as it was starting.

But it held up for some intervals 2 days later, and after taking it easy all weekend, it held up for a decent long run the following Monday! Whew! So I need to look back at those old training plans and see if I can re-start some training workouts from back then. But back with a bit about those intervals and that long run shortly.