AM: 9.1 I decided not to be a slave to the long run and listen to my body today. I figure every distance run is overdistance when training for the mile, so whats the huge difference between 10 and 15 (except the cumulative effects). Anyway, waking up today thinking about a 15miler alone (jamie is out of town and everyone else in my running club is a wuss) I didn't even want to go for a run. Then I decided that a 5 miler would be fun. So I headed out the door with that in mind and actually ended up feeling great and going for 9.1 including 8 striders. Decided I might or might not go for a pm run today depending on how I felt, how my studying went. So basically I had some mental fatigue because of how bad I felt physically yesterday but its all gone now.
PM: 6 went out for 5 and did 6 because I just felt too good. Yesterday scared me a bit but it was obviously just an off day. With 2 80 mile weeks under my belt I am expecting myself to feel bad anytime now (I often felt bad over the summer at 70mpw and took cutback weeks every 4th week) but it isn't happening yet. In fact I don't know that I have ever felt quite this good about my running. I am finally accustomed to the weight training enough that I am not getting really sore from it. And I am getting more striders in which is good for speed maintanence and development. If I can keep this up till january and then work in some track and hill workouts and tempo runs and taper for races when they come I should be in about the best position I could be for hitting good times. I can't predict anything until I get on the track for a few weeks and then do some indicator workouts but it is exciting executing the long term plan...
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