The Next Step

I tried to squeeze in a run before some thunderstorms but didn't quite make.  It started pouring rain about a mile into the run and then it started lightning.  After turning around and heading back to the house my wife came and picked me up.  She vetoed running the rest of the way back in the lightning which shows she is the smart one in the family.  Hopefully, I can get back on track this week.  The last two weeks have not been very good.  I need to get some solid weeks in to build from.

Ran after work today on a beautiful evening.  It was around 60 but pretty windy.  I felt good today and just ran comfortably.  I am going to try to do some speed work tomorrow if I can get my schedule straight.  My oldest daughter is sick so not sure what impact that might have. 

On a side note, I started a Twitter account.  Has anyone tired it?  I am still not sure about it but will give it some time to see how it works.  I have been dabling in some Internet marketing activities on the side and thought it might be a tool to help networking.  I will provide some feedback later on my experiences.

68:51 (7:39 avg)

Another great day out today.  It was in the 60's but very windy.  Today I did some 800's on the track.  I jogged over to the track for a warm up and my legs felt heavy and tired.  Not a good sign.  Decided to stick with the plan and see what happened.  When I got to the track the plan was for 5 x 800 at 3:00.  I haven't ran any speed work outs in months so wasn't sure how the legs would respond.  Here were the splits:

1st - 3:01

2nd - 3:00

3rd - 2:59

4th - 3:02

5th - 3:02

My legs felt horrible on the first one and I wondered if I would be able to complete the workout.  I felt better on the 2nd and 3rd ones but 4th and 5th were a struggle.  I think the combination of bad legs and a very windy day didn't make for a good session.  Anyway, I was glad to get it in and it is something to build on.

This week has been crazy busy at work so it has been rough working in the running time.  Also, found out that my daughter has the flu so I stayed with her while my wife ran some errands so couldn't get outside but was able to get in 6 miles on the treadmill.  I just wanted to do a real easy recovery run today anyway.  Since my legs were shot yesterday I thought it would be best to take it real easy today.  I felt better today and hopefully with the easy day tomorrow will be even better.  I am praying for a quick recovery for my daughter.  She is in the school play and their big performance is tomorrow night.  Right now it doesn't look good for her to make it.  Also, praying that the rest of the family doesn't get it.  She has been really sick the last few days.

49:02 (8:10 avg) 

Well it is not Spring yet.  It was in the upper 20's today will a pretty good wind.  I started out with pretty much no plan on what I wanted to do.  I just thought I would take off and then see how I felt and decide on the run.  After about a mile the battery on my watch died and I was feeling good so I thought I would just run a good solid pace then throw in some surges at around 5k pace.  I did 10 of the pick ups and I'm guessing that they averaged around 90 seconds each.  It felt good and turned out being a decent unstructured workout.  I am hoping to go longer tomorrow because I have an all nighter Friday night with the youth group so Sat could be rough.

Pretty nice day around 40 with some wind. I felt good and it seemed easy today. I didn't get to go as long as I wanted because of work schedule. I will try to get in a longer run tomorrow.

67:10 (7:28 avg)

After staying up most of the night at our church youth group's all nighter I didn't have the long run in me today.  I also played a lot of football and went roller skating so was stiff from that.  I was glad to get in the 8 miles but I need to start getting some longer runs in to get prepared for my half marathon in May.  I am leaving tomorrow for Honolulu and I am hoping that with the big time change I can get out early and get in some decent runs.

61:45 (7:45 avg)