March 12th, 2010
I’m liking this week so far. It started a little rough but that was due to a pretty strong weekend of running.
Monday was a 7mi recovery @9:10
Tuesday was my Billat 30-30s, averaged 8:23 for the run. The warmup miles were quite slow because I was still in creaky mode, but the fast bit went without incident, or rather, a tiny incident. My inner quad got a little ping about 1/2 through the fast bits, not enough to make me stop but enough that I felt it on…
Wednesday’s run, which I’d planned for 9, but cut down to 6 @ 8:58, figuring better to be safe with the tweak and besides, there’s no loss cutting 3mi from a recovery, yet I’d have been sad to compromise a “real” run.
Thursday, (a.k.a. this morning) I was in a bad mood when I woke up, which is funny since I realized from a post I made last week on Facebook that last Thursday sucked upon waking, too. But thanks to the beauty of running, like last week, I snapped out of it once I hit the road. My schedule called for a 13-miler with tempo but because I didn’t want to tempt the inner quad, I figured I’d do regular GA pace and hit the ramp a few times by the museum as a quasi hill run.
I ended up only doing the ramp once and went on the other side of the museum/river for the first few miles, just for a fun change. As the first couple miles went down, I noticed my energy level was increasing. First mile was 8:52 but with each passing mile, I progressively got faster till my last 2 were 7:35s, bringing the whole run to avg 8:05. My legs felt great, my mind felt great, it was just…great!
Tomorrow is a day off and then Saturday, some MP miles and Sunday, a 20. We’ll see, since Saturday says “heavy rains/wind” – if so, I’ll just run easy. I’m in that nebulous place between full effort and slacker mode. I know I’m putting in some good runs but I’m also not pushing as much as I could which, depending on the day, has me either “eh, who cares? it’s enough” or “oh shit, I’m going to suck horribly in Boston”. Generally the former wins, the latter seems to be limited to Thursday waking up.
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Sent #3 out and must apologize for a lack of editing on the Swedish stair piece, I don’t generally write “experiment” two times in one sentence. And also, I’m not so sure that is a guy in the Jazzercise video, so my apologies to the woman with the horrible haircut.
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Oh Flo you crack me up. That video was hilarious and those are definitely all women in my opinion. And nice run yesterday. Are you doing morning runs again or still in the afternoon?
Still in the afternoon, but that’ll change as it gets warmer. I just realized that video was made before you were born!! That’s just freaky.
man, with this monsoon coming, I’m not sure what to run when. I have a 20 to do as well and I may suck it up and do it today.
BOSTON’S COMING! Can’t wait for our slumber party!
Pillow fight, pillow fight!! That’s going to be one hell of a fun long weekend. Good luck on the 20,hope the sky parts for you and there’s nary a drop from the sky.
Yeah, I think the promise of spring has a lot of us feeling better about our running. Great week so far, and good luck with getting in your runs with the crappy weather that it looks like most of us are about to get!
I am SO glad you are feeling better! We have a few more weeks left to get our selves in order, may we both get a little extra sumpin’ sumpin’ in that time.
I echo your sentiments about Boston. It’s been a tough winter for training, and I’m also getting that rain storm you mention on Saturday. We’ll see how that long run goes
. Still beats the snow though!
Hell yeah, it beats the snow. Not much in-between with Mother Nature this year, went from “sucks” to “perfect” in a matter of days. More great Boston wishes for you, too!
Flo, you training looks like a good week to me. And I understand your Thursday blahs, though my seem to hit me on Wednesday! I hope you have a great 20 miler! FYI, I am going to try and channel you this weekend when I do my St. Pat’s 5K. I am hoping to have a huge PR!
Good luck this weekend, girl! Have a great race and drink lots of green beer (if you’re so inclined).
i’m soooooooooooo not looking forward to tmrw’s rainstorm! i have my long run planned. how dare mother nature interfere? haha.
what a solid week you had! i wish i was as fast as you
and i am just about to sign up for the newsletter…i can’t believe i hadn’t done it already! any way to get copies of #1,2,3?
Thanks for signing up, Karyn! I’ll forward the old newsletters to you. They’re short, at least.
That sounds like a pretty decent week. Don’t beat yourself up about hanging out between the slacker and full effort zones. It seems to me that’s a good place to be while you’re trying to remember how much fun the marathon can be.
Thanks Robert. That’s a pretty sage comment and one I’ll take to heart.
Good luck with the rain, Flo. Boston will be a blast! (And there won’t be any suckage)
It will be a blast because I’m finally gonna meet your English ass!! Won’t that be crazy after all this time? I feel like we’ve already met about a year ago.