I only run on days that end in a "y."

Stayed out a bit late last night and went to see James McMurty play.  Got home around midnight to find out that somehow my Nebraska Cornhuskers came back to beat Ohio State.  I had pretty much given up on them when I had to leave home and head downtown.

Was woken up to thunder around 5 am and it was still raining when I got out of bed at 7:30.  Dan and I were going to meet on the trail at 8 am but we both wimped out with the rain.

I went to the gym and ran 7 on the indoor track and then followed with some core work. 

Deceptively warm out - seemed cool at first - it must have been the humidity.

Kept the miles in the recovery zone as that is what the legs asked for.

Is sugar all that bad?  No - it fact, it is the best thing to take for a quicker recovery according to Dr. Mirkin.  http://www.drmirkin.com/public/ezine100911.html

Another morning that felt cool - mid 60's, but the humidity was high enough to negate some of the good temp.

The training group had hill repeats scheduled this morning.  Since I will be doing repeats on Thursday I choose to skip today's group workout. 

I ran the out and back progressive run again.  I toyed with the idea of a tempo run but wimped out in the end.  However, I felt pretty good today which is a nice change.  The 2 easy days helped, I believe.

Overall 7:20 average pace for the run.

9:21, 8:08, 7:39, 7:33, 7:26, 7:32, 7:24, 7:28, 7:07, 7:04, 6:59, 6:59, 6:46, 6:23.

6 recovery miles this morning.  8:40's.

Had to travel to Dallas for work - I thought I would be back on Wed night but I had to stay.  I went out for a 10 mile run - I have realized that my body does not recover too well from those 14 mile progressive runs.  I am glad I wasn't doing the track workout today.   Got in some good aerobic miles and plan on running Saturday's long run hard with 10-12 MGP.

Wonderfully cool morning.  Somehow I missed the memo about the group meeting near the Springs instead of Runtex.  I thought something was up when all the roads were closed.  I ended up parking at auditorium shores, running to Runtex, figuring out we were not meeting there, and then taking off in an attempt to catch the group.  I had arrived a bit early so I knew they were not too far ahead of me.  I started passing people on the Exposition hills, caught up with a big group around mile 6 but never caught up with who I was going to run with - probably because he went for 14 and I went on the 16 mile route.

I wanted to run 10-12 MGP and I ran 13 @ MGP.  I felt pretty good, the pace for the first few miles felt relaxed but it got a bit more challenging near the end - aerobic was fine, legs got a bit tired.  I got to 16 miles and added one more for the fun.  Very pleased with the run.

8:05, 7:46, 7:30, 7:20, 7:09, 6:59, 6:50, 6:53, 6:57, 6:50, 6:53, 6:44, 6:45, 6:49, 6:53, 6:45, 6:51.