Got eight whole hours of sleep last night because of the rain. I want to go back to bed and wait until its all over. No run scheduled until 6:00pm! Cannot, cannot wait that long. I dreamed I was running an ultra marathon in some desert place, really hot and dry, and I felt great, like flying. Running dreams are the new flying dreams! So, I'm pondering something. If we naturally get slower as we get older (and I'm not saying that we for sure do), but we are at the same time training to get faster, what will happen? Will the training to get faster just balance the tendency to get slower with age (SWA), or what? I'm just curious, since I never trained to get faster until I was this age (51). So maybe I'll get faster more slowly than I would have in my 20s? Or, maybe I'm an anomoly, and I'll never get SWA, just keep getting faster. Enough. Rain and not running are a bad combination. PM: Hill training was a tough workout! After the usual warm up, jogging and strides, we did 90 second intervals uphill, going from slow pace (on toes, with high knees), medium pace (exaggerating arm swings), and fast pace (high knees and hard arms). Did twelve intervals, with jogging in between, then some cool down running. I biked to and from the workout for some extra crosstraining miles, and because the rain is stopped. Did a upper body weight workout midday as well; my abdominals and arms need work. Hamstrings are tired!
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