Second Wind

Rest.

Fairly easy 6 today.  Legs felt a little dead but warmed up after a couple.  Finished it off with a faster mile and called it good.  Still pretty warm this morning at 79.  I hope this doesn't mean we are in for an extra warm marathon.

Time:  49:20  8:20/mile

Ran an easy 6 without the aid of any meds today.  Felt okay but I could tell that my usual aches and pains were amplified a little bit.  Will continue to try and reduce the amount of meds until the marathon.  I'm gaining weight too fast these last couple of weeks, I gotta get my diet under control for then next couple weeks or I'll turn into an even bigger blob.

Forgot to mention that it was 67 degrees this morning....BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Time:  50:26  8:24/mile

Off the meds again today so I was doubting wether or not I would be able to run a tempo run today.  After a mile warm up I decided to just go for it and not get too crazy with the pace.  My usual tempo pace has been around 7:00/mile so I decided that if I kept it under 7:15/mile I would be doing pretty well.  Here are the paces:  8:34, 7:13, 7:04, 7:11, 7:05, 6:50, 7:48.  I decided to push it on the last tempo mile and get it under 7:00.  I felt pretty tired after this workout but not dead.  The pace felt like it was in the moderately hard range.  I was just happy to get in a tempo run again finally.

Time:  51:47  7:24/mile

Nice and easy recovery run today.  Didn't try to push it at all today but focused mainly on recovery.  The schedule I am using calls for one more tempo run next week on Wednesday with 4 at tempo pace and a warm up and cool down mile.  Does anyone have any thoughts on whether that is too close to the marathon to be running a hard day?  I was thinking of maybe switching the run to Tuesday instead and making it a marathon pace run instead of a tempo run.  4 miles at marathon pace should be fairly easy and shouldn't cause me any problems going in to the marathon and should help keep my legs sharp during that last week...any thoughts?  Nothing else too exciting.  Temps still hanging out mostly in the low 70s in the early morning hours.  It's supposed to get back up around 100 for the highs this weekend but then it cools off next week.  Maybe we'll get lucky for the marthon.

Time:  50:45  8:28/mile

Crappy run today.  I've been feeling like a have a cold or something coming on for the past couple of days and now my legs were kinda achy today.  I hope I can hold off whatever I have lurking cause I really don't need a cold at this point in the game.  Didn't intend to run quite as fast as I did today but I had to hustle cause I slept a bit longer than usual.  Hopefully tomorrow brings fresher legs and health.

Time:  32:08  8:02/mile

Not a very good run again today.  Started off pretty good for the first couple of warm up miles and the first marathon pace mile but went strait down the drain at about mile 4.  My stomach started feeling like crap and I actually had to stop and walk it off for a couple minutes.  I made it through the remaining MP miles but it was a huge struggle and stopped for a rest at the end of those before finishing the last two cool down miles.  I really hope I can get rid of whatever I have going on cause it really sucks.

Time:  1:02:34  7:49/mile