Cursed Realm of the Faceless Ghost

I'll try to stay on top of the blog this week.

Six miles on the treadmill this morning. I've decided, at least for this week and last, that Monday will be speed work day. So, I did today's run alternating between half a mile easy and half a mile hard. The easy halves were at 8:04. The first hard rep was at 5:27, the second at 5:00, and the last four at 5:45 (although I did crank it back to 5:27 for the last minute or so of the last rep). It felt like a pretty decent Monday morning run. This evening I'll be back for a little weight lifting, and then I hope to get down to Oremville to play basketball with my brother. 

I had a bit of a runny nose last night when I got home from basketball, but when I woke up at 5:00 this morning I had a runny nose, a sneeze, and a sore throat. I hopped back in bed for another hour or so, and miraculously the sore throat had mostly gone away when I finally got out of bed. But I was still sick all day. I blame the bowling yesterday. Sticking my fingers in all those holes--who knows what else has been in there?

Anyways, tonight's run was one of those do-it-to-say-I-did-it runs. Just nice and easy, no need to make myself feel any crappier. I started out at 9:00 per mile, and I was at 8:00 per mile by the time I finished. I think the whole run lasted 39 minutes. I remember that because I finished the minute, the half mile, and the song on my ipod all at the same time. Score!

I'm still feeling like garbage, so today was another just do something day. And I did make it through the run this morning, thanks to another crappy selection at the Cardio Cinema (10,000 BC. How did the Egyptians build the pyramids? With woolly mammoths and child labor, that's how.)

Anyways, I'm going to a water aerobics class with Catherine this evening, and then I have my final (pre-playoffs) basketball game tonight. Then I go to sleep. I hope I feel much better when I wake up.

40:00

Catherine picked me up after school today and dropped me off at the gym while she went to get a pedicure. I decided to spend 75 minutes on the treadmill, although I wasn't sure what the plan was as I got started. After two minutes I decided to get some vertical, so I cranked the incline to 12 percent and settled in for an hour at a 12:00 pace. According to the treadmill I logged 3199 feet and climbed Mt. Treadmill a little more than one and a half times. I finished up with about a mile and a half on the flat and called it an evening.

Long day, but I had time for two quick workouts: weights in the morning, and laps at the track at night.

35:45

It's weird how long it's been since I logged 40+ miles in a week. I thought this week would be the one, but today was a busy day and other priorities meant I didn't get to run as much as I wanted to. I ended up at the Gold's in Orem at 10:30 PM. I hoped to get some vertical, but because my late dinner was sitting heavily in my stomach, I settled for 10 easy treadmill miles instead.

1:18:00