PM: 6.5 Feeling yesterday's 5k a bit. No wonder though with how long I was rigging. For a few minutes after the race, the amount of lactic acid I had built up made me feel like I had lifted weights earlier.
I am rethinking racing this thursday. There is a 5k this saturday that I want to do and since the thursday race is weekly, I can race that whenever. So I am probably just going to tempo thursday and race saturday and maybe race next thursday.
PM: 7.5 added on a mile to my normal loop to run to the gorcery store to pick up something I forgot earlier when I went--sugar free syrup (the kind made with sugar alcohol, not the gross splenda sweetened kind). I basically have been living off of oatmeal and oatbran lately and this makes it so much better. I put frozen fruit in it, a bit of soy milk (because it tastes creamier than regular whole milk and has less calories), maybe some nuts, a bit of sugar free syrup, some unproccessed wheat bran (healthy and has that undefinable nutty bran flavor). By the time I am done adding stuff it is twice the volume that it started at lol.
PM: 7.75 including 4x1mile with 200m recovery in 5:31, 5:35, 5:35, 5:49 :( It was simply too fast for that much rest. Maybe with 3min rest I could have done it but with only 60-90seconds recovery it was too much. The last one I simply gave up on. I could have run another 5:35 but it would be racing. I could have run 5:40 with hard effort but I decided that the first 3 were too fast anyway so I just made it tempo pace (not that that was easy at that point). The first 3 alone though predicts a significantly better 5k than I have. Most people can run 3-5 seconds faster pace in a 5k than they can handle for 3 mile repeats on 60-90sec recovery.
PM: 8 including 5 at the Red Rooster Ramble in 29:31. It was just a tempo because I want to race the 5k this saturday. I came in 2nd with this time which would have won almost any of them last year. But this dude came down from mass. He is training for sub 2:50 at boston and ran a 28:30. His pacing was hillarious though. He gained 250m on me in the first 1.5 miles and then stayed exactly there for the rest of the race. I ran it pretty even. 5:52, 5:50, 5:48, then decided I was pretty tired and was running darn fast so I backed off a bit with 5:56 and 5:58. It is not the track for sure, but it is a darn fast course. It would be nice if they cleared off the salt/sand from the sidewalks. Parts were like running on a firm beach. I don't really understand how I went just 7 seconds slower per mile for the whole half marathon (which was hillier lol). Maybe I am wearing myself down racing so much? I am not heavier than I was for the half. I did gain some weight towards the end of feb but I am back to 154 now which I think isn't too bad. I could be skinnier but I don't think I could diet and do hard workouts at the same time and stay healthy. I will taper a little bit tomorrow and see what I can put together for the 5k this weekend. I don't think it is a fast course though.
