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

Overcast with a few light showers - I always like to run in the rain.  Maybe it's because we don't get too much of it anymore.

I stayed on the trail to give my legs a break.  On Saturday's long run I felt a tweak in my left calf on the last mile.  It went away and felt fine.  However, later in the day I would feel in - it felt like a spasm - quite odd.  After a tough week and that tweak I took yesterday off.  

It feels better today - a bit sore when I stretch it but did not bother me too much while running.  With a half coming up this weekend I don't think I will be doing any hard workouts this week.  I will try to stick to the trail as much as possible.  I feel like I am on the razors edge with pushing my body and at this point there is too much to lose and too little to gain by pushing too hard.

Ok - that was gross - 70 degrees and 90% humidity - and it's November!  This is torture after running in nice cool mornings lately.

Anyway - I woke up a bit too late to try and get down to run on the town lake trail.   I decided I would run the 14 mile out and back route that I have been using for my progressive runs.  I know yesterday I said I would take it easy this week and that was my intention this morning.  I ran by feel and let my legs lead the pace.  By mile 3 I was already at a pretty good clip so I kept going.  I pretty much ran by feel and it went well until the last 3 miles or so as it is mostly up at this point combined with the heat which caused by heart rate to go up.  Only had 1 gu and took 1/2 a my waterstop around mile 3.5 and coming back I had the second 1/2 at the same waterstop.  I felt the lack of energy towards the end of the run, maybe next time I will take 2.

8:54, 7:39, 7:24, 7:16, 7:17, 7:24, 7:16, 7:08, 7:00, 7:02, 7:04, 7:14, 7:10, 7:02. 

Nice and cool morning - out and back from the house for 7.5 miles total.  No one else out there but me this morning.  At least I didn't see anyone.  8:29 AP.

Met up at the annex to run some fartleks on the trail - nothing too taxing but fast enough to shake out the legs a bit.  Ran 2.5 easy and then 12 x 1 min fast - not paying any attention to pace - with 1 min easy pace in between.  Looking back at the history on my Garmin the fast portions were 6:30-6:10 pace.  I wanted to run around HMGP pace so that was at least within the range. 

Probably run a few miles tomorrow and maybe some on Saturday. 

I am taking the family down to San Antonio tomorrow to make a weekend out of it.  I think we will go to the zoo, maybe the children's museum.  Interestingly enough my son had no desire to do Sea World.  That's fine by me.  I probably won't get much leg rest on Saturday but I am not too worried about it since it is a half and not the full.  Speaking of that, I am glad I am not running the full, and if I were, would probably not - starting temperature for Sunday morning will be about 60 - and with the sun it is going to warm up fast.  I have said it before, and I will say it again, I am through running marathons in Texas! :-)  This just reinforces my opinion.

7 easy in the morning - just to shake the legs out.  7:50's.

We drove down to San Antonio last night.  The kids are having a blast so even if the race goes south we had a good time as a family.

Woke up @ 6:45 this morning.  Staying at a hotel and don't know the area.  Thought I would go for a few miles to keep the legs loose.  I wanted to do a mini carb load so I thought about going to the treadmill and running a couple with 3 minutes fast followed by carb load.  For some reason the room key would not open the gym.  So outside I went.  Luck upon luck there is a high school right up the street that I found by running up that way.  I did 2.75 miles with 2 on the track and then 1000m fast.  I downed a bottle of Gatorade Prime Pro with 85 carbs and then short run back to the hotel.  Pigged out a breakfast.

Forecast for tomorrow is low 60's.  It all depends on if it is going to be cloudy like they say.  If the sun is out then all bets are off.  At the very least it will be a hard training run.