Archive for September 24th, 2008

Doc appointment was fine, EKG is fine, Flo is fine, fine, fine!!  So what did I do the second I got home?  Baked toll-house cookies.  Nah!  Out the door for 5 recovery.

Though I was tempted to wear a ski mask in case anyone recognized me, I stuck to shorts and a top and started moving – a little scared of myself, a bit fragile mentally, but once I got going and stopped imagining my chest walls imploding or death from sudden heart attack, it was just like old times (old times = Saturday).

My strangely dependable legs haven’t a clue that I raced 11 miles on Sunday, they feel great as ever.  Funny, since that was my only fear about doing a Half 3 weeks out from Steamtown, “will my legs be able to recover?”   Ah, the irony.

So medical emergencies aside, let’s look at what I managed to complete during this weekend’s misadventure.  The tracking splits told me I was right on pace at the 10K mark (8:00) and showed a (not surprising) fade at 10-miles (8:06) before I crashed solidly at mile 11.  So I guess I can consider the PDR a non-standard, superlong 10-mile tempo run.  Not at all the race predictor I wanted and needed, but not exactly chopped liver.

It remains to be seen what I’ll do with this week.  I had easy runs except for some 600s planned for Friday, which I’m on the fence about.  I actually think I’m ok physically to do them, but we’ll see.  It’s supposed to be crappy weather that day so I might just play Recovering Patient and skip them.

I have a 17 planned for Sunday, which I really wanted to be my last 20, but I know I don’t need to push that to the limit either, so I’ll try and be satisfied with the 17.  At least I got four 20-22s this cycle, though I’m not thrilled the last one will have been 4 weeks from the race.  C’est la vie.

And with that, I want to thank you guys again for such great well wishes and comments, you made me feel like I have a huge support team behind me, and I guess I really do – so hugs and kisses and super sweet thoughts going to every single one of you.  I want everyone to have the best running this Fall imaginable, let’s all have some crazy PRs, titillating races, memorable moments (maybe not too memorable) and just some damn fun running all ’round.  High five!!  um, you’ll have to do it to yourself, but I’m there in spirit.