6:00 a.m. 8 miles easy. I was 5 miles into the run when I suddenly thought - how did I get here? I don't mean here on earth or anything profound like that. I mean, I think I was sleep running. I'd done all my stretching stuff and remembered going out the door etc but it was kind of spooky. When I was awake and aware of it, rather than in some sort of Cartesian false awakening syndrome, I thought about my quads. They hurt. Nothing like Russ's birthing quads problem, just DOMS from the hill reps. Then I thought about Jake's big picture thingymajig and the best laid schemes of mice and men and all that stuff, and decided to tweak the remainder of this week's training...
I dropped this morning's post run strength work and did a cheeky little core work-out, which included my quotidian 20 x Jaycorns - a little name I coined for push ups in reverence to the push up kings: Jake and Acorn. No point hammering the legs with squats and one legged dead lifts etc on sore legs. I've decided to drop tonight's 8x8 sec hill sprints. Instead, I will do some strides tomorrow, prior to doing the planned 3 mile threshold climb.
The County newspaper, Kerry's Eye, has a spread on the Kerry's Eye Tralee International Marathon. Interesting read, for locals. The race will include the Kerry County Champioships, so the race should attract some half-decent runners. I'll have to join a club at some point, if I'm going to enter the County Champ's, as well as the overall race. The organizers are making the race into a whole St Patrick's Weekend shindig and it's part of 'The Gathering' - where the Irish return home; they'd be better off staying away: the country's banjaxed. On that positive note, I'll leave you, for now... 6:00 p.m. 6 miles easy. Started out at about 7.30ish and ended up around 6ish. Legs felt a good bit better. Big day tomorrow - 12 miles including the hill tempo @ 11:00 a.m. and then a very easy 6 in the evening. | 