Archive for May 8th, 2009

I took Monday off, then got back on the road Tues.  Probably should have been recovery pace, but I wasn’t hurting so it wasn’t happening.  I ended up with a 7-miler at 8:12, Wed was 8 at 8:03 then finally yesterday, helped by a killer dewpoint, I was better behaved with an 8.5 @8:49.

Yesterday was also my race hangover.  It was nothing unexpected; that comedown you feel when a big event is over (helped by some PMS, a bit of real life crap and a day of rain) made for one big ball of boohoo.   I also had a brand new set of apres-race dark thoughts that went a little something like this: “how long will I be able to keep this up?” “what if it ends soon?” “I’ll never be as fast as…”  Blah blah blah.

I eventually cheered up last night when I started copying my Marathon schedule from Hudson’s book into my running calendar and after that was done, filled in the blanks for the few months preceding it.   Having some type of schedule was all I needed to start dreaming and planning again.

I had originally thought I’d be doing 70mpw all summer, but some backing off to re-energize will be beneficial, so it looks like I’ll be 60 to 65 from now through June with one quality session a week.  I’ll have some 55 weeks, too, due to the 4 tentative races I have planned: a 5K in 3 weeks and in June there are 3 consecutive race weeks (a 5K, 5-miler then another 5K).  If it’s horribly hot, I’ll skip one or more.  Then July will get me back up to 70 with marathon training beginning the first week of August.

Now, a picture of Kat and I with Bart Yasso, taken at the Expo.

Plus my ugly race photo.  See the racers behind me?  They were in front of me as I turned the curve on the track but I kicked my heart out to pass them.  The annoying thing is I had my photo face on all through that damn kick and figured they’d already snapped the pic by the time I crossed the mat.  I look like an eel.