Was supposed to meet Josh and Nate for a lunch time run, but screwed up the starting location and missed them. Winds were pretty out of control up above campus, so I guess I won't mind doing the majority of my running for the day on a treadmill later. Anyway, I ran up to Red Butte arboretum (instead of amphitheater), then realized maybe they were at the arboretum, so ran back and forth a couple times, didn't see them, and ran back to the lab. Running against the wind, what felt like an easy 7:30 pace turned out to be 10:30, and running with the wind, what felt like easy 7:30 minute pace was 6:40. Pretty wild. By my calculations, that puts the wind at around 30 mph!
Later, I did 7 miles the gym since it was even windier outside than earlier, to the point that I had a difficult time crossing the street from my building on campus to my car in the lot across the street when I went home at 7PM. Went home and ate a lot of food, which made me feel sluggish for the first few miles, but after 3 miles, I got bored and decided to do a few miles at marathon pace. I did the next 3 at 6:15, and then did the last mile in 5:23. The 6:15s felt really really fluid.
I'm going to eat a lot less junk food during this training cycle. I was significantly skinnier in 2009 when I was running lots of short distance PRs, so I'm going to focus on getting back there. I figure 10 pounds should do it and, given that I'm nowhere as muscular as I was in 2009 when I weighed 160, I think 150-153 will be the sweet spot. The old me might have put up sick stats in the bench and shoulder presses, but he was always going to have a hard time running a sub-2:40 looking like this:
Too bad upper body mass doesn't help with the marathon. :(
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