Relentless

morning - 17.25 4x1600. Last morning of sleeping in - no more days off until school's out(unless you count track meets). Warmed up into Green Springs and hit 2.75 miles down to PVHS at Tinman effort, sub 5:50, but it was downhill. Then got into the 1600's with the boys. Goal was to stay with Casey and help him out - although he has been strong on these all year anyway - at 5:14. Ran 5:12, :14, :13, :12, with 1 lap easy recovery (around 3:00-3:30). Pretty consistent and didn't feel too bad at that speed. Another good starter workout in the LT range. Cooled down and then ran back home for a big mileage morning. (Rocket 646.75)

evening - 4.5 Grass. Waited all afternoon to run on the grass with my daughters... then they stood me up. I was pretty bummed about it. Ran over to the fields and ran 3 barefoot and then back home via my dad's to get some sprinkler stuff to finish up the project I was working on in the garden. (Barefoot '13 42.5)(Zero 183.75)

AM - 9 DogTown/AC/Hot Nails.  Extremely slow this morning.  Just totally dragged through the whole thing.  (Landreth blue 918.65)

afternoon - 6.5 Harts/laps. Ran the warm and cool with the team with some laps in the middle and an extension of the cool. Not a lot better than this morning. (Boston 997.25)

AM - 10.25 Clyde's.  First time in over a month with the Circle.  Good run, interesting (?) conversations.  (Kinvara3 331)

AM - 6 AC/Lutheran.  The extra sleep this morning and single yesterday seems to have worked wonders.  I felt very good this morning and it left me excited to do a workout.  I kind of was mad at myself for not waking up earlier and getting more mileage in, but I will get a good run in this afternoon.  (F50 474.5)

afternoon - 11.25 Parkway/Dirt Mile.  Felt good enough this morning that I figured I would give a workout a try, but it didn't turn out very well.  Warmed up for 5 on the Parkway and then got into a tempo on the Dirt Mile.  I had to adjust my mile loop just a little because they are building in the area (of course) and dumped loads of dirt right on my dirt road.  Anyway, started great and for two miles I felt awesome and was thinking probably 6 miles or so and even take the pace down a bit, but after 3 I started to really heat up and started to feel sick.  So I just pushed it to 20 minutes and called it quits - 5:43 average.  Kind of bummed that I bonked so bad.  But the heat really does that to me.  It will take a while for me to get used to it at all.  Cooled for a couple miles and went home.  (Hyper Speed 351.5)

AM - 6 AC/Lutheran.  I hate mornings and they hate me right back.  I don't know if I have had a tired streak like this in years.  And I just have no motivation to overcome it.  (Connect 516.75)

afternoon - 8 Albino.  Changed the run up for the team today.  So we just went on a nice easy run up into the desert.  Finished with some weights.  (Kinvara 822.4)

morning - 14 Chuckwalla. So glad I decided to do this run today. Earlier I had thought about running a 10K today, but after Thursday's botched workout, I decided against it. I am also still against running UV - but I almost feel obligated, not because anyone expects me too, but just because it feels like I should. Anyway... Today's run was good. I kind of wanted trails and something different than usual, so I drove over to this trail. The run was just nice and relaxing. There were a lot of hikers out. The weather was nice. The climb up Scout Cave is hard. Then I opened up my legs for the last 2.5 and loved it all. Zen-like morning. (VertK 102.5)

another week down with no real commitment to anything. I just can't get myself to buy into any real training. But I got my mileage up a little more again.

Goals for next week: lets get the mileage up around 100. What else? Be happy with life!