Second Wind

Rest.

Spent all last knight hugging the porcelin bowl and was too week come morning to even think about running.  Stayed home from work today and just recouperated.

Planned on doing a few more miles than just 3 today but didn't get up in time.  Maybe I will do a couple of miles with Cory tonight to help witht the daily total.  Everything felt good this morning and the stomach seems to be feeling better today so here I am at work.  I need to get some kind of training plan going for Painter's which is coming up sooner than I want.

Time:  8:37/mile

Windy and cold so I wimped out today.

Finally a nice calm morning with moderate temps.  At 42 degrees it was a little chilly but I was still able to run in shorts and a sweatshirt with some gloves.  Finally able to put in a decent run for the week even though it is now Thursday.  I have pretty much written off this week for getting some good mileage, but I still hope to get it in the 30 mile range after Saturday's run.  Everything felt pretty good this morning except my chest which still seems a bit tight from my Sunday night throw-up party (at least I think that's what it is from).  With about seven weeks to go until painters I am looking to put in some long high quality miles and crush my course record which shouldn't be too hard since it is around 1:54.  Hopefully the weather is a bit warmer this year than last years 19 degree start.

Since my laziness left me with less time than I needed to run 10 miles today I decided to do 7 and pick up the pace a bit.  The first couple of miles I ran with Meg and we were clipping along at about an 8:30 pace, she pulled out and wanted to shake out her knee a bit and she told me to keep going so I decided to break into my sub 8 miles for the remainder of the run.  The pace felt pretty good so I continued to pick it up a little each mile until I hit 7:15 on the last mile.  I really need to do at least one of these quicker runs each week if I am going to see some improvement in my fitness and times.  I tend to just go out each day determined to just set the bar at a height I know I can clear instead of raising the bar from time to time to get stronger.  I was doing this (raising the bar) much more during the summer months when training for the SGM but ever since getting injured last August I have been a little wary to really push much beyond a comfortable pace.  With Ogden coming up in April another training cycle will begin so there will be some opportunity to do more running at marathon pace and faster.  I am looking forward to the challenge.  Hopefully this time my body will handle the training a little better and I will get through it injury free.

Time: 7:58/mile

What a beautiful morning for a run.  It rained most of the day yesterday and drizzled most of the night so this morning everything was fresh and clean.  The temps were actually still quite mild for this time of year too so all the conditions for a good run were there...for some reason today I just didn't have any energy.  The humidity in the air made everything wet and when the sweatshirt gets wet everything starts to get cold.  Had planned on doing a few more miles than 11 today but just couldn't muster the will power.  Will do a little more running with the kids this afternoon at the kids marathon portion of the Las Vegas marathon so that will help the total a little.  I guess it is just one of those days were you don't feel good.....at least I hope that is the case.

Time: 8:58/mile

Afternoon:

Ran/walked the kids marathon portion of the Las Vegas marathon with some kids from my wifes school where she is a PE assistant.  The distance was a little over a mile and between running and walking it took us about 16 minutes.  Rod Dixon (1972 bronze medalist in the 1500 M) was there to lead the race.  We had a good time and the kids received some nice goodie bags and t-shirts, just like running the real marathon.