Craig Hudman - Simply Live

AM - 6 Miles with Nikki and then 3.27 solo nice and warm with not much left so I hit MP then dropped to HMP for the last 2. Felt good, still feel some effects from Saturday's long run, but not too much. Might hit the track this afternoon.

PM - 5.16 Decided to hit the Shelley High School track at lunch time. I forgot how nice it really is, however, the are two place the wind even when its not windy really hits you there. I decided to do 1/2 mile repeats with a 1/4 mile float in-between.  2:46 (went out a little fast here), 2:50 (still to fast, knew I would pay for it), 2:57(finally where I wanted to be), 2:58, 2:55, 2:56. I was hoping to be closer to 2:55 on each one but this was my first track workout in a long time and I was a touch off on the first two and paid for it a little later on. Overall with my floats 5.16/32:07/6:14. 

AM - 4 miles solo then 7 with Nikki. I was nice and toasty after 4 but then slowed down with Nikki and almost froze to death. I was chilled to the bone, still not warming up yet. I was planning on doing a bit more but the cold got to me plus I wanted to see the kids before they left for school so I cut it a bit short and will just add the missed miles on to this afternoon and tomorrow morning. Legs recovered pretty good from yesterday, still feel a little burn which is becoming normal.

PM - 6 Easy Shelley loop. This run was more out of necessity than anything else. Work stress is officially through the roof as we try to push to get in the new building. Everybody seems on edge and all of us are snapping easily. My wife asked me last night why I was so grumpy and if I really liked my job. I couldn't say anything (I was really grumpy). Still grumpy. 

Daughter has decided to run the hurdles. Wants me to help her. I know nothing about the hurdles. Any suggestions? 

Recovery day so I took this easy, but still ran the hills by my house. I'm feeling extremely worn down today and the run was a bit tough. Now for a day of yard work.

AM - 13.2 I was prepared to run in snow and rain this morning after looking at the forecast last night and to my surprise a relatively nice morning. Ran 4 warm up then back to pick up Nikki. It's a good thing she was there otherwise I would have went back to bed. I coaxed her into running 8 with me. It was really good for me to have company this morning or I would not have got this one in. 1 mile finish up between MP and HMP. Legs feeling a lot better than yesterday.

PM - 6. I am now convinced that Shelley has the worst track program around. My daughter called me from the track so I headed over to see if I could help out. When I got there they were stretching so I ran a couple miles on the track watching the completely unsupervised high school kids do whatever they wanted (no coach anywhere). After a couple miles I figured my daughter was bound to come over soon so I sat down and tried to take care of some work off of my phone. 15 minutes later the coach or whoever still was talking to them. They had been done stretching for over 20 minutes at 4:15 I had to leave and go back to work. They still weren't on the track, track is over at 4:30. I guess they really don't run in Shelley. Bad thing is they have and 8th grader (boy) who is really fast and has no coaching, I'm pretty sure the kid would kill me in a 5K by minutes..enough ranting..It was good to get out, I seem to run faster on the track, last double of the week.  

AM - 1.25 yep that's how far I made it this morning. I actually went a little over a half a mile before I decided to call it quits and ran back home. The weather sucked and I couldn't think of any good reason why I needed to get pelted in the face by tiny ice pellets for at least 9 miles before I turned my back to the wind for the other 9. So I will be doing a long run on a TM today.

PM - 14 Tempo run. I was trying for 18 total but had to call it quits a little early just not enough left in the legs. It was supposed to be an easy day but had to switch up because of going out of town so with the lack of rest I'm not surprised. I did get in the miles at MP that I wanted. 14/1:31 flat/6:30  

 I eat way too much pizza.