Of Mice and Marathons

PM: 62'. 14.7 miles @ 14.1 MPH. 125W. HR 97.

Recovery ride on the Polly Ann and some of the neighborhoods near my running routes. I was going to do the Coffee Ride, but wanted to get up with the boys so Megan could sleep in. Took them grocery shopping and to get some flowers at the Home Depot for Mother's Day. 

Body definitely needed a recovery day. 

AM: 11.2 miles, averaged 8:12. HR 135. Did some strides. 

Boy, I was thinking I was going to mostly skipp the creatine weight gain phase. Ouch. I know it is just water, but still. Damn. It was work getting back down. I think it will settle back out, but I need to be careful. I can't have this.

PM: 4 miles, averaged 8:42. HR 127. 

Legs a little sluggish to start, then felt solid, then I felt like I got sunscreen in my eye, or pollen, then my legs just gave up and felt like I had no energy and bonked hard, but finished up 4 miles and walked the rest of the way home. Nice night for it. 

PM: 60' on the trainer. 225W. HR 135.

3 x 10' Criss Cross (Tempo/VO2s). 3 sets of 2 (4'/1')

Planned to go a little longer, but the plan only called for this for a regeneration week. I took the boys grocery shopping and then to the mall in the afternoon. They ran off on me and hid outside. I did find them, but I was flaming. A lady told me it was a bad place to let me kids run around as it was a dangerous place (as if it wasn't clear I was trying to chase them down). I didn't find that very helpful so I told her to mind her business. She continued, so I was a little less nice. 

AM: 4 miles, averaged 8:00. HR 136. 

I tried to get up early, but I just wasn't able to get up. Got in a short run before going with Megan and the boys to the Detroit Zoo for a class field trip. We had a great time. The animals were very present and active. In fact, a lion couple was a little too active maybe :-). It took the boys a little while to warm up and enjoy everything, but I think they were having trouble being caught between home and school mode with their teachers and classmates there and us. 

PM: 1 hour 37'. 28.6 miles @ 17.6 MPH. 206W. HR 131. 

Decently warm. Megan took a nap and didn't want to run, so I went out and got a ride in. I was going to sit on the trainer, but they seemed dumb given the nice weather. The humidity has settled in a bit. 

AM: 8 miles, averaged 7:51. HR 145. Did some strides. 

Beautiful morning. Started to get warm, but not super hot. I went to the KLM liquidation sale (another company is coming in). It was nuts. I didn't think there would be that many people there, but I forget that people come out of the woodwork for these kinds of things. 

PM: 3 hours 1'. 57.3 miles @ 18.9 MPH. 218W. HR 147. 

Thursday Night Dirt

Decently warm, not much wind. Did well covering speed changes, but got dropped in the Proving Grounds, much later than usual. I was doing a pull and I think some guys got impatient as they came around and the group gapped me and then that was it. I still managed to keep up a decent effort by myself. 

A PR for the loop @ 1:17:59. 27.6 miles @ 21.3 MPH. HR 161. 253 watts. 

AM: 9 miles, averaged 9:25. HR 124. 

PM: 5.5 miles, averaged 9:20. HR 123. 

It's nice and warm—beautiful weather. I was going to do a long run/workout, but it was getting warm, and I really needed this to be a down week. So, I will likely not do any running workouts this week, which isn't ideal two weeks out from a target half, but I have a big, packed week coming. 

Weight is stabilizing a bit after the creatine loading phase. 

PM: 120' on the trainer. 211W. HR 128. 

The boys fell asleep playing in their pack-n.plays. We put them in them the other night when we had a tornado warning in the middle of the night. They were tired after a birthday party, so I was able to continue on after 90' to finish out 2 hours. Megan is headed to a girls' overnight, so it is me and the boys for the afternoon/evening and a bit tomorrow.