faster with age

     It was 40 deg this morning at 5 am. It was about 7:00 before I was able to run and the temp was still in the mid 40s. I ran 16 miles at 8:09 pace up past the reservoir and out the canal. The temp was 65 when I finished. We are supposed to hit mid 80s later today and maybe 90 tomorrow. It's amazing it can cool to the 40s after an 85 deg high. Really nice morning and nice run.

     Ran 8 miles up by the reservoir. Another nice cool morning [upper 40s] but we are supposed to get over 90 today. Yesterday I ended up working out in the sun all day and probably walked another 4 miles [some jogging] in hip boots. Not the greatest for recovery from my 16 mile morning run. I felt trashed last night and this morning so I went extra easy this morning. 9:07 AP.

     Went over to Weston canyon this morning to get some uphill and downhill running. There's a 3 mile section I like to run that's a nice gradual grade [around 300 foot climb]. I had planned to do a workout. After a warm up mile I started a tempo run but could tell I just wasn't feeling it today so I just kept the whole run easy and ran 2 miles less than planned. I haven't been getting enough sleep and I think it's catching up to me. I also lost about 4 pounds on Monday and haven't gained much of it back yet so I may be a bit dehydrated. Either way I don't think I have been recovering well from my last few runs. I've got to focus on getting enough sleep and eating and drinking like I should. 8:12 pace overall for 8 miles.

     8 miles midday at 78 deg. I've been up every morning at 5 am to move wheel lines and hand lines for irrigating. It's made it so I usually haven't been able to take advantage of the nice cool mornings in the 40s and 50s. Our cool rainy spring has gone strait to hot and dry. 8:32 AP

     My legs just haven't had any pop this week so I haven't done any kind of a workout. Today I felt a little better so I decided to try a short workout. My hip has been bothering me a bit so I kept the workout minimal  [just 3 faster miles] and the overall distance short at 6 1/2 miles. It was 75 degrees again when I got started. I warmed up for a little over 2 miles at 7:55 pace then went down the big highway hill 1 mile in 6:16. I took about a 2 min break and dipped my shirt in a ditch. 1 mile back up the hill in 7:50. The uphill was the harder effort. After a .3 mile recovery I ran 1/2 mile in 3:06 then 1/2 mile recovery. Then another 1/2 mile in 2:55. Then .61 cooldown. Overall pace was 7:27. I've got a 15K I'm running Monday so hopefully I can recover and get rid of some of this sluggish slow feeling by then.

     My hip has been a bit sore so I decided to skip the run today. With no running today and tomorrow hopefully it will feel better for the race on Monday. I went for a 20 mile off road ride on my mt bike. I haven't been riding at all. I normally ride once or twice a week. There's a biathlon here I like to do every year at the end of the month and I'm in pretty poor cycling shape right now.  This is the second week in a row that my mileage has fizzled the second half of the week and I've ended up with about 20 fewer miles than I had hoped.