I am one with the levee and the levee with me

Snuck out again during naps and logged 16 miles on the levee -- 7:16 avg.

10 easy

10 easy + 5 strides. I had a workout on the schedule today, but the body says it needs one more day of rest. And this week it doesn't matter if the workout was done Tuesday or Wednesday.

Yikes. Two days where I couldn't drag myself out of bed.... Have to figure out how to overcome the newborn fatigue.

6 easy including 4 x strides.

Because I missed the half last weekend, I wanted to hop in this one to sharpen up. The humidity came back for the weekend (72F air/72F dew point at race start), and I struggled a little with it. Race started slow, and after a quarter in 78/79 I took the lead and started to push. I felt really good.

A couple of my part-time training partners joined me. Reached 1k in 3:14 and 1 mile in 5:10ish. Still felt good.

I continued to push in mile 2. Hit a couple 3:07 kms by my watch and reached 2 mile in 10:14is (5:04). I fell apart after that. 

I managed to keep contact until about 1k to go, and then one of the guys made a move. I started feeling pretty terrible in the 3rd mile. Once the move was made and I couldn't cover I dropped further and further back. Winner ended up at 15:45.

Not happy with the result at all. Not letting it get into my head. Just have to keep showing up and trusting in the system. I think I'm just a bad humid-weather runner.