Of Mice and Marathons

Wingood Road - 6.25 miles easy with Megan, no watch

9.5 miles, no watch

Narrowly avoided a German Shepard attack. I got partially into the woods and grabbed some bush cover and put a ditch in between us. I had thought as I was approaching I should have grab a defense weapon. It started jumping up and down and I yelled for help. The owner came and the dog quickly left. 

10 miles, no watch. Did some strides.

No sign of Diesel. Tired in the last two miles. Strides felt labored and slow. A little race fatigue, dehydration, drinking, too much eating. Mom made me two eggs on an English muffin with cheese. Good little recovery breakfast.

AM: 12 miles, averaged 7:16 w/ 6-mile aerobic tempo @ 6:29 pace + quarter mile controlled: 6:40, 6:30, 6:33, 6:27, 6:26, 6:21 followed by a quarter mile in 1:24 (5:27 pace).

Short but good workout. 6:36-6:40 felt very easy. 6:20ish and the breathing got up there, around end of strong 8 mile builder effort. Still in the range though. Lots of time to get these closer to 6:05-6:15.

PM: 4 miles with Megan

Atypical diet today but loads of protein and probably pretty solid. Thus is why I'm blogging it.

post-run: 2 eggs, cheese, on toast

lunch: salmon cake with egg on top

post-run: granola bar

dinner: fish chowder with some seafood dip for appetizer

9 miles, no watch. 7.5 miles on the road + 15 minutes of barefoot on the grass

Unplanned day off. In Keene, NH for my friend's wedding. Packed up from my parents' and drove 4 hours and just didn't get super motivated to squeeze in my run. I think I'm doing a vo2 max minutes workout in the morning before the wedding. Need to continue to tune that system. Need to polish up my speech too. Back to business on Monday.

Cheshire Trail in Keene, NH - 10 miles, averaged 7:40 w/ 5 x 3 minutes hard and two minutes easy but not plodding

30 minutes up

25 minutes of fartlek

~22 minutes down

Not quite true vo2 max but a good effort in the 5k zone. 5:35 pace for the hard and 8:00-8:30 off. These were on trails. A bit off cross style mud and dirt. Not what I thought the trail would be but I made it work.