Of Mice and Marathons

Off. Sick.

PM: 10 miles slow.

Pre-bed: stretching

PM: 11.3 miles.

Lunch: 10.25 miles slow. Still do not feel great.

PM: 4 miles on the treadmill. Did some stretching, light weights, pushups and situps

I was going to cross train because I am mostly doing long singles this spring, but the ellipticals were all taken up and I didn't feel like biking. They were all taken and all three treadmills were open. Figured I would just run.

Great first day of teaching. However, I don't meet with them again until next Wednesday and La Salle doesn't start until Tuesday. Nothing like starting in the middle of the week with a Monday holiday the next week. My classroom is really nice. It's in this building.

AM/Lunch: 10.5 miles easy. Did a few strides. Finished up with 10 x 10 second hill sprints (which I am counting in my mileage)

Still pretty sluggish but I am getting there. Had an unleashed German Shepherd come after me a little bit. She was definitely barking and not far from jumping/biting. I gave those two folks some words of advice. I don't think they expected me to freak out and were set aback and completely unapologetic. I run in the park to avoid idiots, not to seek them out.

Pre-bed: Stretching and pushups

Lunch: 12 miles total. 40 minute fartlek with 28 minutes up and 26 minutes down

20 x 1 minute hard/1 minute easy

When I checked the split times after they varied a lot, which makes sense on rolling dirt with tree cover. My sense was that I was moving around 5:25-5:35 but with the short time and tree cover the lap time and moving time was off by as much as 4 seconds. Reflected pace was just under 6:00 to start and as fast as 5:25, but my avg moving pace was 5:15-5:45. That sounds about right. It is a much harder workout than I thought. Felt good about it as I get my mileage up, recover from the plague, and get into some faster stuff.

I could have done this one the track and done 400s and probably got through it will sensible pacing but I am going to stick with old school fartleks as long as the snow continues to hold off. 50 degrees today.

PM: 7.25 miles slow.