THOU SHALT BE A COMEBACK

First did 9.08 in 1:19:36/8:46 pace.  Took it nice and easy--I still have a little bit of lingering soreness in my rear end and hamstrings from the race Saturday.  Came home and did two circuits of strength drills, then back out for 1 mile in 9:12 with Jesse.  Came back in and stretched a little--no appetite this morning(odd for me), so choked down a packet of instant oatmeal and some milk.  Back to the grind today at work.  I have done some thinking about the trail half in June and am paranoid about turning my ankles, so I think I am going to forego the half in June and go for a 5k pr June 6th instead.  I will save my first half for a fast flat one in September.  That gives me nearly 5 months to work on my fitness and translate my current 10k pace into my half-marathon pace.  

First 8.54 in 1:12:33/8:30 pace.  Then went inside and stretched for a minute while Jesse got his shoes on.  Back out for one mile with Jesse in 9:28.  He is talking about going out for track and cross-country.  I hope he does.  I am really going to work on getting him to run with me.  Once again, not a big appetite after my run.  Ate some oatmeal and milk anyway--I have a feeling it will be like yesterday and I will suddenly be voraciously hungry in the afternoon and eat everything in sight.  It is very humid, overcast, and just muggy and sticky.  Makes me feel sluggish.

1:12:38/8:55 pace.  Nice and casual today.  Need to up mileage with caution so only 8.15 today, will do 9 tomorrow.    Off work for three days!  Yeah! I will be getting ready for Brandon's high school graduation on Sunday afternoon--we are having a get together at our house afterwards.  I cannot BELIEVE  he is almost a high school graduate.  Wow. Wow. Wow.

1:11:43/7:54.  I just felt great today.  Legs felt great, breathing felt great, the sun was shining, a cool breeze wafted over me no matter what direction I went.  Running felt easy, even going up hills I felt like I was floating.    All runs should feel this good.  I have to go to a 4 hour mandatory service-wide continuing medical education class today.  Way to impinge on my day off.

First did 6 miles with Vanessa in the stroller and forgot to stop my watch so I don't know what the time was.  Talk about running slow but working hard--run into a headwind with a stroller and the sunshield up like a sail--it takes a tremendous amount of energy and some huffing and puffing to keep moving.  I wasn't running very fast but I may as well have just run a race after that 6 miles was done.  Stopped, stretched, stopped at the post office, then drove home and did 2.38 more recovery at 8:45 pace.  Felt a little light-headed at the end and decided it was time for food and water so walked in the house, still feeling light-headed, and went straight for the bottle of gatorade and a big bowl of raisin bran.  Man was I hungry.  I finished the first bowl and then ate a second one.  Still hungry, so had a piece of toast with peanut butter.  Need to do strength drills but will do them later today.

Updated:  8pm finally did the strength drills.  I know it's silly at this point and I almost skipped them altogether but I think they are part of my injury-free maintenance so I felt paranoid and finally did them with Queen playing and the kids dancing.  We will rock you. I have been eating nonstop all day.  You would think I was starving.

1:26:04/8:36 pace.  5am.  Meant to get 10 in and then have a little alone time before the kids got up.  Got home and Nick and Ian were up watching television.  I sent them back to bed!  Boy are they mad at me.  Long day today.  I have to finish up preparations for Brandon's graduation tomorrow, then off to work for the last day of riverfest, which should have us out and about running calls until after midnight.  Church tomorrow, then graduation, then home to barbecue and host post-graduation party.