9 mile morning run up past GS onto the trail and back around into Middleton. I rediscovered how fun it was running with my ipod while I was running up the trail doing the Air Guitar to Santana’s “Mother’s Daughter.” I won’t say what I was doing to Michael Jackson’s “Bad” all this while still running up the dirt trail. It was nice and I had fun, plus the weather was pure amazing. 63 degrees when I left the house. I can’t get my hopes up too early… but it would be nice if fall was moving in. Running in that kind of weather makes me actually feel like a runner again and not a Survivor trying to stay alive. I think I’m going to start my drop into the marathon. I had 100 mpw last week and I think I’ll do 90 this week and 80 the following week, and then that leaves the week of the STGM. I think I’ll do around 50 or 60 that week with the race. I can’t believe it’s coming so fast. After all the guys ran TOU last week it really woke me up that my next marathon is just around the corner. I guess I better get serious about things.
7 mile this afternoon. We had some family stuff going on tonight so I did my run around 5 p.m. Normally it would be way too hot but the temp is cooling off a little and it was pretty nice- like 95 or something at my house.
I'm pretty sore and wore out from fighting the wind and the course at the same time on Saturday. It really took it out of me. I think that will be my last 20 miler. This Saturday I will do around 17 with maybe 5 miles at temp pace. But for the most part I think I need to start resting my body up. Last weekend made two Saturdays straight that I went and pushed out 10+ miles at marathon or faster (5:20) pace last week. I need to recover. It's getting to be close to that time when you say "the hay is in the barn." | 