my makeup may be flaking

AM HR 59

AM HR 64

AM 2.5

PM 8 Track workout

4*800 w/90 seconds rest (2:51,2:48,2:47,2:47)

lap jog (4 mins total rest)

4*400 w/60 seconds rest (77.4,74.7,76.0,78.0)

6*100 strides

Those 400s did not feel good, full of lactic acid by the end of the last two. The 800s felt pretty smooth, but my heart was misbehaving.

AM HR 67

AM HR 65

Easy day. Tour de Run tomorrow. My goal is sub 1:22 which is just under 6:00 pace.

AM HR 60

AM 4.1

PM 3 up, 3 race, 2 down

Tour De Run! Pretty sweet race/course. Plenty of competition but I felt pretty bad.

5:32 for the first mile which is way too fast. It felt pretty easy but I could feel bits of my legs falling off as I ran. Second mile has a decent downhill, but I slowed to about 5:50 and I think my right foot fell off.

Third mile was 6:30 and it was a complete meltdown. I really felt awful.

Stage 2 was a 40:24 10k. I never really felt good in this one, which included a 7:22 mile 3 up a steep hill. I started off pretty conservatively but my heart was skipping almost immediately. It was cool to run with allie for the first little bit and then gradually watch her disappear off into the distance the last 3 miles. I held it together ok, as my last 3 miles were the fastest.

Stage 3 was a 4.4 mile run which was just terrible and pretty much epitomizes all of my races for the last year. I tried to go out pretty conservatively and ran a sub 6 first mile feeling like it was pretty easy. The second mile was downhill and I slowed down to about a 6:10 second mile. I completely died after that though, running just under 7 minute pace the rest of the way to finish in 28:06.

Tour de Run itself is a great event and really well organized, I think everyone agreed that they did a fantastic race. However my races were all terrible and it didn't really come as much of a surprise. I think I have a lot of work to do.