Sunday Workout
Matt and I made our way up to Cannonsburg on Sunday to go try out some shoes. It was a nice recovery run and felt good to get up the ski hill a few times. Nothing to crazy with pace or time, or distance. Just running for fun. No focus on this run. Just out there to move and be with friends.
I do not envy anyone that did that loop 5 times this weekend. Not my idea of a good time. I love the trails and I love ski hills but doing it 5x is not my idea of fun. I think if I ever do an ultra I want minimum loops and either a point to point or out and back. Loops would drive me insane.
Monday Workout
Monday was not fun. Not because my legs hurt or because of heat. I just had to do both workouts on the treadmill. I don't normally like to double up morning and night on the treadmill. I really like running in the am on the road and evening on the treadmill.
I did 7 miles in 45:58 which was nice to break 46 for the first time in a while and have it feel comfortable. It was nice to warm them up and stretch first. I was able to start off for about 1 minute at 7:00 pace and then I plugged the pace down and I was able to stay very comfortable.
The 4 after work was 27:32, it was just barely below 7:00/mile pace which felt good but knowing I had speed yesterday I really tried to hold back. Little did I know that my plans would be foiled once again!
Tuesday Workout
I got up at 4:30 and got my stuff together and headed out the door. I got to the track nice and early. I was able to get a nice warm up in, it was dark. Not just morning dark but, a demon storm form the 7th level of hell type of rain. OK it wasn't that terrible BUT, it couldn't have had worse timing. I barely got .5mi in with rob before I had to shut it down. I would have pushed through in rain. Lightning is something I do not run in. It just scares me. wah.
This meant I had to put the workout in on the treadmill AFTER work, I hate speed workouts on treadmill, you have to be unreasonably consistent and I like to push the last .10 ro so and it just feels fake on a treadmill, anyone else feel that. Ugh.
This workout was a bitch, I ended up doing it at the Portage Y and that gym is a frickin' hot box. The fans suck, one treadmill stopped working on me and the tv that was on was a joke. I had 3x3mi. at 5:55 or better. I really had to break this workout into chunks to mentally get through it. Does anyone else hate Rachel Ray, her TV skills suck..anyways, was able to do 17:42, 17:40, 17:39. I was happy to keep it realistic but, my legs were toast after this. I went through 22oz of water after 35 minutes. I was soaked.
Wednesday Workout
I was happy just to get off the damn treadmill. This particular morning was gorgeous. I was supposed to recover but my legs were happy for 6:50's the whole darn time. I can't complain, I am smooth as butter at this pace and it doesn't tire me anymore, which tells me I'm getting faster.
Thursday Workout
16 miles, 16MILES, 16 FRICKIN MILES, in the middle of the week! Are you kidding me, I thought it was a darn typo. My legs felt good, I was tired from not sleeping much but, still holy smokes.
I was again plagued by time crunches, it was raining hard when I got up and packed it into the car and got the 8 in and grabebd coffee for my work crew before 7am. That was a VERY early day.
The evening consisted of another treadmill run, not my favorite BUT, I was able to watch some dumb humor TV 1 episode of Futurama and Tosh.0 awesome!
I ran faster in the evening then the morning 53:50, and 54:10. Not much of a difference but, my back was starting to hurt form my crappy chair at work and I didn't want to try and kill it.
Friday Workout
This was a very comfortable run, I enjoyed! Pace was on the money and I was comfortable the whole way through. I was just really hungry after the last 2 days of mileage. I was definitely ready to rest at work and have a chance to enjoy a day at work rather than feel stressed out. I was able to catch up on a lot of things Thursday so Friday was very quiet.
Saturday Workout
"damn it's cold" were my first thoughts getting out the door. I did my usual grab some toast and Nutella and head out the door routine. I wish I had coffee to begin with though. I got out the door later then I had planned but 6am is still 6 am on the lake. It was a gorgeous sunrise and an even better temperature once the day picked up.
The goal was to do 7 up 7 hard and 7 down. These last couple of runs I have not been able to turn the ratchet down on speed in my long runs, which I am really struggling with. I can only turn it down 15-20 seconds and even then I can't hold it consistently. I really need to get back with the running group. I just need a group of guys to run with again.
Saturday #2
This was undoubtedly the silliest thing and most fun thing I have done in a while. Rarely do I just go out and run a bunch of miles for fun but, I will ride them.
I met up with Ryan and Flint to help them finish out a 150mi. ride. That's INSANE, 100 usually has people knocking on the wall of fatigue but 150 makes mere men look like chumps. I love this stuff, it mad eme feel really good to bring some fresh air and fast wheels to the party. They were happy too, we managed to put a roughly 19+mph average out this ride. We were having a ball cracking jokes and catching up. IT was good to ride again, like really really good. I think I need to get back into it. I missed it!
Sunday
Thanks for a fun time, it was good catching the crew!
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Fun! I like the summary. Also the mention... ;)
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