Chad's Runs

8 miles in the cold, it was much colder than I expected.  My hands were freezing.  I was slow too.  I tried to put in a decent pace but it just wasn't going to happen.  I shuffled along, hopefully due to the 20 miler on Saturday.  I also put in the other inserts into my Altras.  They come with two sets, one traditional and one designed to strengthen your feet.  It's pretty much just flat.  I could tell that my feet were getting worked and tired.  Maybe that had something to do with my slower speeds this morning.  Probably not.

10 miles at marathon pace.  I felt better than yesterday.  This makes 930 miles on these shoes.  They're pretty trashed but I want to end on a nice round 1000.

14 miles before work. I'm booked on Saturday with yard work and want don't want to be wiped out. I need my energy to get stuff done, so I did my short-long run today. Does that make sense?   It was my long run for the week but it is a smaller rest week so it isn't a 20+ miler.  I felt great.  I got stronger and faster as the miles went by and ended with the last mile the fastest.  I didn't plan on a progressive run.  I wanted to get in a comfortably quick groove without burning myself out.  As the miles went by I found that I was going to have plenty left so I kept on picking it up.  I hope I'm functional today.

8 miles that started out more as a shuffle than a run.  My first mile as 11:08!  11:08?  Holy crap!  Well, I didn't have time to run 8 miles at that pace so I picked it up.  I was feeling tired legs after yesterday's 14 miler.  But I slowly started to warm up.  The rest were high 8s and low 9s except for the last one which I ran in at just under 8.  Cool considering how I felt when I started this run.  My hands were cold.