overtaking haynes

good to be home again...felt a little better in the morning but ran in bad heat and

immediately got horrible stomach problems. ran on road with 3.1 miles of dirt roads

mixed in. 220 miles on brooks.
 

1hr 47 min trail run...felt horrible during the day but no matter what i'm hitting 70 this week.

I have a difficult 30k trail race on sunday so i want to go heavier early in the week. 210 miles on montrails... 

1hr 48:30. Felt kind of pathetic like it hurt a bit to run on the technical sections of the trails. 231 miles on shoes. hmm, contemplating not hitting 70 this week and taking two days before the race easy so i don't completely suck. excuse of not recovered yet after ultra. why does it take so long to recover? it seems lame. 

went out during the tour de france. the beginning part is always really boring and there is 3 min of riding 5 min of commercials for 5 hrs. so i decided to get in 3.3 miles by running out and back 3 times on the dirt road adjacent to my house. i got back exactly as the leaders were making their way up alpe d'huez. it was awesome to watch carlos sastre pull away! he probably still won't win though unfortunately. anyways, then i had a phone call i had to make at noon so i ran 1.2 miles down the road. Then i made the phone call and ran an out and back 7.1 miles, only 3.4 of that was on pavement. i like the out and back. there are 2 major climbs in it. and the dirt roads are really nice. i'm thinking this will be a good route for me to get maximum dirt in and stay off main roads. running on technical trails every day right now just hurts too much...not even just the legs but the feet. may do an am and pm 7 mile out and back to be on my way to getting 70 with a minimal day of running on sat before the race. i really need to stretch, i feel so much better and fresher when i do and it doesn't take me 5 miles to feel a good stride. am i beginning to get motivated again? a friend i talked to was thinking about going to hawaii in jan. the hurt 100 is in january. i would "only" do the 100k if i did it at this point which is enough suffering with the winning time of 17 hrs last year and 2nd place 20hrs. intriguing...it will be interesting to start working again in a week. i really miss having structure...it's amazing how i make time go by. i'm beginning to seriously question how anyone accomplishes anything with how little time there seems in a day. 

3.7 dirt, 3.4 pavement....was hoping to run in the morning too but wicked thunderstorm. 

according to my new advanced maratoning running book i should be recovering for 5 weeks anyway but i want to keep trail racing until people start beating me that i've previously beaten. once that starts happening i'll know i'm overtraining.

haynes disagrees and says he's fully recovered after 2 weeks. i also am recovering from a 34 mile trail race which is probably 50% more effort of a normal marathon.  

1hr 2 min run, probably around 7.4 miles with my pace as of late. gps didn't start

working for a while. ran to the post office with mail. will take tomorrow off for race on sun. i'm going to get destroyed by the terrain i think. i'm still excited though cause i've never been to the catskills. i heard it's only ok but looking forward to it.

247 miles on brooks

231 on montrails-i'm so bad at keeping track of mileage.