Craig Hudman - Simply Live

AM - Went out with Nikki after a late wake up. Started out and legs started feeling really good and it was a great conversation with my wife. At about mile 3 we ran into a dog that my friend has, who watches my dog when I go out of town. My dog went nuts so I ran the other dog home and left my wife for a bit. As excited as my dog was this turned into a 5:30ish mile, not what I planned on. Met my wife for her last mile then finished on a canal loop that I haven't done in a couple years. My dog loved cashing the ducks in the water and running off leash. I might have to make this more of a habit again.

PM - 6 at the high school track during Jr High practice. I coaxed one of the decent 8th graders to run one of my 5x600 with me. I did a 400m float in between. 1 - 2:07(5:30), 2- 2:07 (5:30), 3-2:12 (5:40), 4-2:12 (5:40), 5-2:13 (5:42). He then joined me up for another 1.25 cool down at around a 6:40 pace. It was fun to work with the kids. The local 8th grade stud who runs around a 5:05 mile wouldn't run with us. I know him and his dad well and I'll keep working on him when I go. I think I might sneak down more often to help out. 6/38:01/6:20 

AM - 14.3 Easy consistent pace. Starting to feel much better. I can feel my body starting to get stronger on these runs which is really encouraging right now felt like I was bonking around mile 9 but when I looked at my mile splits when I was done all were with 5 seconds, start to finish. I'm going to be a little tired today. Stayed up late folding clothes and stumbled into a show called Ridiculousness which is basically short video clips of people doing really stupid things and getting hurt. My wife was almost crying she was laughing so hard. Pretty funny for about 30 minutes then it starts to wear off. Still it was worth losing the 30 minutes of sleep.

PM - 6.2 First mile hurt then I loosened up and fell right into pace ended up hitting a few slow MP miles without any effort. I'm glad today is over running wise. Tuesdays seem to take a lot out of me in every aspect. I was soooo hungry I ate lunch at 11 today. I was eating anything I could get my hands on. I imagine thats not real good to let myself get that bad.

Wow, what a beautiful morning. Only problem was my wife was walking out the door without gloves so I followed suit and left mine on the table. Wasn't a real smart choice. Easy first 5 with Nikki then a fast canal loop to finish it off. Now yard work.

Only one run today because I had to fast this morning for a blood test and couldn't force myself to run on empty and then not eat for another couple of hours. So did some speed work. 8@ HMP pace. .5@MP and .6 WU/CD what I had timed was 8.5/50:54. I felt pretty strong throughout and know I couldn't have done this a month ago so I'm slowly getting there.

AM - 7.1 before the weather got really yucky. 5 easy with Nikki then 2.1 at MP solo. My wife had a good venting run and I had a good listening, not trying to solve anything run (at least I'm not the one she's upset with). 

PM - 6.1 Outside nice and easy. I had my shirt off Tuesday and wore a synthetic down jacket today...must live in Idaho. 

Well, let's see. I couldn't get out of bed, when I did I took forever getting ready, once I started I felt super slow for 5-6 miles. Kept thinking I should've stayed in bed. When I turned around at 9 I started feeling better ran about a 7 minute negative split on the way home. So the entire last half was right around MP. My dog tried to stop around mile 16-17 somehow got him back on track to finish off the entire run. Ran to Rattle Snake Transfer Site and back aka my summer bench route. It is so quiet and peaceful out there, hardly any cars.

PM - 5.07 No one home, so I went running. I decided early today that I would go for a shake out if I felt good. Started out feeling great, felt great throughout enitre run. Thought about going farther but decided to stop while I still felt good. 5.07/32:37/6:26