THOU SHALT BE A COMEBACK

7:55 AP.  Labs came back. I have low ferritin...good explanation for why I've

really been dragging a$$ lately. So, nothing this month except slow

easy aerobic running while I chomp down iron supplements and beef and

get health enough to train hard again. Had a lovely late night run

through Derby. Felt pretty good.

7:51 AP.  Started out tired but then felt really good at the end.  Joe is right, this easy aerobic running will pull me out of the muck and I will be beefed up and ready to roar in April

7:44 AP.  windy

8:01  AP.  It is spring in Kansas, and the wind. is. here.  Fatigued.  I need to go buy some iron supplements today and get on top of that.

8:00 AP.  Winds 30mph gusting to 50.  This is what makes Kansas runners tough so bring it.  Planning to go long tomorrow for the first time in a while.

7:56 AP.  I started on the North end, and went straight south into the 30mph headwind, gusting to 41mph, for 8 miles, then, nicely beat up and exhausted, flipped around and tailwinded home.  I was pretty cashed and didn't capitalize much on the tailwind, I confess, but it was a good solid run and the longest I've gone in a while.

8:10.  Completely flattened by a cold for two days but made it out today.

8:19 AP. Calves were really really tight and stomach was a churning brew of clifbar, cottage cheese, jalapeno and iron pill for extra sour. I couldn't get my stride opened up and was close to spewing. I about threw in the towel 2 miles in and called it a night but since my willingness to suffer is my only real strength as a runner I plodded it out. Runs this bad usually mean the next one is good.

7:57 AP.  Treadmill.

7:58 AP. 70 degrees. very humid. already?! Oh well, this is the stuff that got me into shape last year. Maybe it will work its magic again. GO SHOCKERS!!!

8:49 pace.  Time to stop neglecting true recovery pace.  This felt good.

8:28 AP. sorry I'm a bad blogger.  Life is really getting in the way right now.

So I took a week off to re-set my mind and body. No exercise for 7

days. Today I re-start with a much clearer mind, rested, and focused.

October and Prairie Fire will be here before I know it, and training

starts today. I know what I want to do, and I'm gonna lay it out for my

DM(and FRB) friends. I want to go sub-3 and win Prairie Fire....and now for the

4-year plan. I want to run a 2:46 and qualify for the Olympic Trials

in 2016. There. I said it. Impossible? Maybe. But I also know that I

ran a 2:59 on 60 miles a week at altitude in 81 degrees 5 months after

coming out of the pool with stress fractures. So is trimming 13 minutes

and 49 seconds in 4 years a total stretch? So there. There is my

crazy unrealistic psychotic pipe dream. But hey, if it gets me out of

bed and makes me run for the next 4 years then that is good enough.  Ran 8 easy on the mill then did my old strength drills I used to do afterwards with strides in between.  Sit-up, push-ups, one-legged squats, lunges, triceps dips, jumps.  Time trial Thursday.  Time to get this show on the road.

8:49 pace

7:56 pace

Really wanted a 3 mile time trial today but no sitter, so I was off the Y with Vanessa in the kidzone and had a date with the dreadmill.  I did decide, finally, to knock of some cobwebs and see if my legs could still turn.  3 miles 8:34 pace, 3 miles 6:35 pace, then hopped off the mill and cooled down 2 miles on the indoor track.  I was able to relax into the fast miles without much strain, which was a pleasant surprise.  A sense of fatigue, yes, but aerobically easy.  I bet my ferritin levels are rising and I think with a few more pounds off I am going to start feeling better about racing really soon.  It was a happy running day.

8:01 pace.  Hot and thirsty.  Talked to some of my GoRun teammates afterward.  It was good, I am motivated.  I will get skinny and back in shape soon. I will. I will. On my way.