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Rest day, I spent the whole morning swimming and pool running and relaxing in a hot spring, after 3 hours of that my blood pressure and my blood sugar were so low that I felt really confused, I ate something, got home and slept for a couple of hours.

2.2 km WU, 5km at HMP 3:57, 3:56, 3:58, 4:00, 4:02, 1k recovery jog, another 5km 3:53, 4:00, 4:00, but I had to stop after 200m to leave my lunch on the side of the road, after that I kept jogging and puking my eyeballs (my stomack was empty) for another 5.5km. I really felt horrible. I have read many times about people puking and feeling great again, it wasn't my case. I went home feeling a knot in my stomach while my legs were just fine.

Lesson learned I will never do a fast workout 1 hour right after lunch. Now I am watching the Super Bowl even though I know that the Ravens won.

Easy recovery run, I felt much better than expected after yesterday run. It was hard just because the fog and the constant light rain, but it wasn't cold (around 5°C).

Easy run in 42:13, nothing special.

Speed workout night, but the conditions were not great. Strong wind from the north, -2°C and I felt just tired from the day at work. I changed my original and boring plan from 8X800 with 2:00m recovery jog to 5X800m with 3:00 recovery. During the first one I was excited to do a short workout with long recoveries and the first interval was 2:52, then things started being more realistic, 2:58, 3:00, 3:03, 3:01. At the end as anticipated I felt totally trashed and tired, after all it was a good idea to remodulate my plan and doing something more sustainable and realistic for the day. Next week I will reintroduce back in my training the 400m to push a little bit my top end speed. 

Last night at the end of my workout I was totally wasted, tonight I was much fresher than expected, my legs were fine and in spite of the strong wind and the cold weather I went through 7 miles fast and easy. After all yesterday the big killer was the wind, I have done harder and faster workouts, and tonight I was not tired at all.

Third day in a row of cold weather and strong wind from the north, at least I went running in the morning with a beautiful sun and clear skies. I did some sort of progressive run to 5:40/k to 4:45/k finishing 13.1 miles in 1:48 something and then doing 10X100m strides with 100m recovery jogging. Overall 5:05/k for 14.5 miles.