Craig Hudman - Simply Live

I was really sick Saturday night and Sunday. Slept until 2:00PM Sunday after being up all night puking. So I slept in this morning and was really 50/50 on running at lunch. Never felt good during this run. Pretty labored but HR was low. No energy (as expected).

3 mile warm up 22:16

6.87   5x1600x600 / 40:35

First 3 reps felt fine, 4th was hard and 5th felt almost out of control. I had to really focus to maintain speed and form. I haven't fought it that hard all during training. My mouth was dry as a bone.  Got a drink before cool down.

3 mile cool down 22:16 by 1/2 mile into this my mouth was dry again. I haven't fought dehydration this bad yet. I know it all goes back to being sick and just getting better.

Didn't run this morning because I'm still feeling not that great.

Last day of 5K pace in this training program. Now longer runs at HMP and then Boston in less than a month. 

Decided against an AM run and keep today less miles to continue recovering from being sick. I will hit it hard again tomorrow. My wife called me and asked to take her to the gym so I took a really early lunch. 1 mile warm up then a 10 mile progression run in 63:29/6:21. Felt like I wasn't going to make it until I got myself mad around mile 5 and just kept it up until I finished. Now I'm feeling a bit too jacked so I'll try to calm myself down and get focused for work again. Happy Winter day to all.

AM - Started thinking about doing this run yesterday sometime. Wasn't sure I was going to try it until I started actually doing it. As always it got tough in the 5-7 mile range when it felt like time was just standing still. Somehow made it through it and then it just got easier to complete it took until mile 9 before I decided I was going to do the full run I had come up with. (Anyone can set a PR on a TM it's just how much pain you can endure and no I don't think this is a "PR" by any means)

2 mile warm up 14:53

13.1 "Tempo" 1:18:46 basically a full minute faster than my fastest HM. Tempo is a little loose here because it was a touch outside my comfort zone right now. HR did creep a little higher than I would have liked but as always legs go numb and was able to just feel the pace until the end.

1 mile cool down 7:30

Probably the last honest effort at any type of a distance that I will do before Boston. There might be 1 more but not this length or effort just a bunch of short speed reps. 

PM - 8.38 Lunch shakeout 

8 - Easy, hips a little tight nothing else..

PM - 7, Easy again. Wife out of town again. So I ran on Friday night again. 

Nice good run with Jeff and Curt on a chilly morning. I had very little motivation and was hoping no one would show up so I could drive home and go back to sleep. After they showed it was good to get out and get this one done. Good company and friends go a long ways on days like today.