The Next Step

It was definitely a blue Monday in Indianapolis today after the Colts lost last night in the Super Bowl.  I had a bad feeling about it.  They have been surviving with a beat up secondary for awhile and I knew it would eventually come back and bite us.  Drew Brees really showed our weaknesses.  The on-side kick at the start of the second half was a huge turning point and might have been the difference in the game.  Now that I got that off my chest.....

It was cold today (19) with some light wind but the sun was out (I ran during lunch) so it felt much warmer. The roads were still in bad shape so I just ran around my neighborhood (8 laps) to keep off of the roads and not get run over.  I felt good today and the running seemed easy.  This is good considering the 20 miler on the TM on Sat.  More snow coming this week and some travel so I hope I can stay on schedule.

67:28 (7:30 avg)

We got another 4" of snow last night so roads bad again today.  I ran on the TM with the plan to do 8 x 4:00 at around tempo pace (6:20) with 1:00 easy recovery in between.  This is supposed to be a good transition from just easy running to getting ready for some tempo runs.  I did about a 20 min warmup and felt pretty good so started the tempo intervals.  Since I was on the TM I set it to 6:18 pace.  I did the first 5 at 6:18 and the last 3 at 6:11.  I felt good through most of them but was feeling the effort on the last three.  Overall a good workout and hoping we get a break in the weather so I can get outside for some workouts.

63:55 (7:06 avg)

More snow last night plus 20 mph winds really blew the snow around so back on the TM.  I just ran easy this morning nothing special.  I felt a little tired this morning probably from the workout yesterday.  I ran last night and then ran early this morning so not the usual amount of rest.  Glad to be able to get my run in despite the snow but really hope we can break this cycle and I can get outside.

62:55 (7:52 avg)

The roads are still a mess where I live and don't really have any good place to run where I would not be dodging traffic so stayed in on the TM.  I did a little longer run today and added 8 x 1:00 at 5% to mix it up some.  I felt good and the run seemed fairly easy nothing special.  At this point just trying to hang in there until the weather gets better and I feel like I can step the training up.

1:32:32 (7:42 avg)

It was 5 this morning and we had freezing fog so thought I had better stay off the snow covered roads.  Another day on the TM.  I just took it real easy today.  Wanted to have a real recovery day.  I felt pretty good but was a little tired this morning.  One thing with all of this TM running I am watching way more TV than normal so I am totally caught up on politics, news, sports, financial markets, etc.  Some of that can be depressing while running.  If this TM time keeps up I may need to hook a DVD player up to my TV and get some more interesting things to watch.  I'm going to try to go outside tomorrow for my long run but may be only in the neighborhood because of the icy roads.

70:55 (7:53 avg)

It was 14 this morning with some wind and kinda foggy.  Because of the fog I ran a few laps around the neighborhood then went down Muessing to Acton and back.  Today I was planning a progression run.  The goal was to run the first 1/3 easy (8:00), middle 1/3 around 7:30 then the last 1/3 around MP (7:00). When I started off I felt tired and sluggish.  I thought it was just being cold and would get better as I went along.  After 6 miles I picked it up to 7:30 pace but this felt harder than it should and knew it wasn't going to be a great day.  I was able to hang at 7:30 pace through 12 miles and thought I would give it a go for the MP miles.  I picked it up for a couple of miles but I was really pushing and felt really tired.  After the 2 miles I just backed off and ran easy the rest of the way in.  I guess this is just one of those days but glad I got it in.

2:19:54 (7:47 avg)