Of Mice and Marathons

PM: 10 miles, averaged 9:15. HR 9:15.

Legs were a touch sore/worked over from the bike race yesterday, but not terrible. Right around 9' pace felt about right. Enjoyed the run and felt good from the first stride to the last. Felt meditative and not overly taxing. Cool and breezy, threatening rain, but never got any. 

PM: 10 miles, averaged 9:19. HR 124. 

Very pleasant running weather. Kept it quite easy. I imagine the lower HR runs will be gone once the hot weather arrives along with the humidity.

AM: 10.2 miles, averaged 8:20. HR 146. 

20' @ Half Marathon Pace -10" + 6 x 1' On/Off

6:41 pace @ 169 BPM. I thought I might be able to get moving a bit faster with favorable weather, but I guess this is 10 seconds faster than half marathon pace. 1' intervals were aroudn 6' pace or slightly under. Legs still recovering from the bike race this weekend.

PM: 1 hour 12' (19.7 miles @ 16.3 MPH). 160W. HR 114.

Beautiful day out, so I figured rather than go downstairs on the trainer a short mixed ride was the ticket. 

This was the boys' first day of summer school.

AM: 6.2 miles, averaged 10:32. HR 124. 

PM: 4 miles, averaged 10:18. HR 126. 

AM: 7.3 miles, averaged 8:53. HR 137.

Nice easy progression. 

PM: 6.3 miles, averaged 9:34. HR 130.

Did 6x strides.

Lunch/PM: 4 hours 11' (74.4 miles @ 17.8MPH). 198W. HR 135.

Pleasant weather. Reverse Fenton Roll, or one of the many versions. Decent amount of pavement (about 45%). I was going to do my long run, but just felt kind of off/odd, and just felt like riding, which mostly worked. I imagine it is just impending Father's Day emotions. About 2 minutes of total stoppage time. My track stands are getting better.

Off.

Got up with the boys. Took a nap while they napped. We went to Canterbury Village for a superhero event. Not as in-depth as some of their other events, but the boys were excited and I think they had fun. They were a bit challenging getting out of there. I got tired when we got home and I went upstairs to lie down and fell alseep for another forty minutes.

There was a shooting at a splash pad about a mile down the road from our old apartment. Went to bed not feeling much better about the status of the world or how to raise kids in it.