overtaking haynes

11 mile trail run at a new place for me. there's a 4300 acre park with LOTS of trails but it costs $8 to enter. luckily i got there before the person taking money got there. kind of lame how much it is. ridiculous actually! ran for 1hr 49 min. later i hiked for another 5 miles cause it was such a nice day. total exercise time 4hrs. i didn't eat much until dinner and then i was a fat pig, eating a medium pizza by myself among other things. glad i feel ready to start building mileage again and getting in some consistency. the plan is to build up to 80, because Haynes is doing it and i want to be just like haynes! the plan is 65-70 this week and then just hold around 70 for a month and then go from there. 40 mile race is feb 28th so i have time. hopefully i'll start doing some speed stuff but for now i don't feel like it, i just want to run how i feel like running.

 

1hr 10 min road run. This will be my standard morning loop before work. 

running at 6am is starting to take it's toll on me. i feel like a zombie. i never seem to go to bed early enough. i did run the route 1 min faster in 1:09 than yesterday though so i guess i can start my runs a minute later. awesome! i kind of feel like i should be running more like 10 each morning but i guess there's no point rushing into it after about a month of only 35-40 mpw. it's only going to keep getting darker for another month as well. and also colder...

weak as hell showing this morning. tried to wake up earlier and run 10, but that backfired badly and i started my run at 6:29, which didn't leave much time to shower and drive the 15 minutes to work. it has become obvious as the winter gets colder that i'm going to have to do some running during my hour lunch break or simply run 20+ miles on sat AND sunday, which probably would serve me well for the 40 mile trail race. past bedtime again!!!! i hate going to sleep knowing how hard it will be to get myself out the door. i'm going to a conference in Reno on sat and staying there for 4 or 5 days so hopefully running will be easier.
 

5.5 miles on dirt road. 

3.3 on dirt

set the treadmill to 7:30 pace at the hotel in Reno. My longest run by far on a treadmill ever but was compulsive to get in at least 60 this week. didn't realize the altitude was 4500ft here. didn't feel it.