Age is just a number.

Oh crap! I hate running on Sunday, after all it is the sabbath day..  And I always feel guilty later on you know.  But I suppose I had my reasons to be out there today for a while along with a mild case of spring fever.  Best of all; I was just feeling to dang good to rot in front of the TV today. Besides, it was just a plain beautiful day outside and I feel all the better for it now.   So does my family LOL! :)

  15 miles out on JRT and back home.  Easy pace out while closing faster at 6-6:30min pace for the last 6 miles.  I guess that blew my recovery day.  Oh well, easy tomorrow for sure..

Easy distance today for recovery.  Out for 8 miles on 7th east and 13th (Altaview Hospital).  Just went out and enjoyed the run today.  

8 miles total/ 7:30-8/min pace.  

Easy 6 miles on 7th via Cafe Rio.   7:30-8min/pace.  7:30/mi through most of the run. 

Holiday over, back to school and the graveyard shift. :( 

Ok now I can finally get to do an entry today.  Very busy trying to work on getting a lot of little stuff put away.  Ever notice it's the the little things in life that can hang you time wise?  Time management is a struggle for me especially lately.   

Anyway I have a scheduled training plan ala Pete Pfitzinger and I'm going to stick to it..  It will top off at 85/mpw and will center itself on much slower daily mileage with fewer but higher quality sessions.  I am going to modify it but only a bit.   I want to really see how a good and balanced plan can work for me at Utah Valley this year.   Last year was a disaster, but not this time..

13 miles total with 10 miles at 6:00-6:15/mile. 

Easy 10 miles today up to Draper and back via 7th and 13th east again.  Running at 7:30ish avg pace with 8min pace out to warm up and 7:15, 7:20 for the last two miles.  Just went very easy as the body felt inclined without forcing the pace and especially so at the beginning.   This worked out really well this afternoon and I felt energized at the end.   Now for some more zzs before school :)  

10 miles total at 7:30-8/min./flat terrain.  Stretching for a bit afterwards.  Out.. 

Medium distance run of 11 miles this evening.  About 5 miles up at 6:15-6:30ish/mile, then down with 1 mile easy at 7/min pace.  Started the 4 mile AT portion with a fast downhill mile on 9400 s /13th east in 5:15, then leveled off a bit with a 5:26, now right and into a pretty good head wind at 5:52.  A storm is definitely inbound me thinks..  Aargh..  Tt's cold to me today for some reason!  My fingers are numb even with my gloves.   Ok, now I go left again and downhill 2% towards home with a strong close in 5:26.   Felt pretty dang good about the effort and the times today and it would seem like a muscle memory phenomenon of sorts.  Big mileage increase this week and normally I would say not to try this at home but I have been at much higher and with easy days taken down a notch it doesn't seem to be a problem.  Cross fingers, knock on wood. :)

Short jog to cool down a bit, stretch and now to refuel.  Hopefully a few zzs also.  Out.

Easy 4 miles at 8/min pace to loosen up a bit.   I crossed over my sleep schedule because of only getting 4.5 hours yesterday.  I know this playing hell with my cortisol levels but what can I do you know?  Made up for it last night by falling asleep rather early and slept in for 11 hrs!   Now I feel like Rip Van Winkle however minus the grog of course.. :)