The Next Step

I had an early morning meeting in Southern Indiana so I had to leave really early so had to run in the afternoon.  It was nice (62) but very windy.  I planned to do a little speedwork today.  The plan was for 1 mile, 3/4 mile, 1/2 mile, 1/4 mile at 6:00 pace with 1/4 mile recovery.  I didn't feel the best warming up.  I had some tightness in my left knee but that got better after a couple of miles.  However, my legs felt tired the whole way and didn't really feel better.  Here are the splits for the intervals:

1m - 5:58

3/4 - 4:29

1/2 - 2:59

1/4 - 1:28

1/2 - 2:56 (added this to make 3miles at 6:00 pace)

I had to push these because I didn't feel the best but was glad to get the workout in.  Did about a 1.5 m cooldown.

9m in 65:38 (7:18 avg)

It was a nice morning (46) with light wind.  We are leaving to go to Disney World this afternoon so I knew I wouldn't be able to get in a long run while we are down there so went ahead and did it today.  It has been only 4 days since I ran my last 20 miler so I was interested to see how I felt.  I decided to just take it easy the whole way and not push it any.  I felt pretty good this morning and just crusied along.  I felt good the whole way and felt like I could have ran faster if I wanted to.  While running I saw a car hit a dog up the road from me.  I ran up to check on it but the dog ran off.  I went to the house but no one was home.  It looked like maybe it broke its leg but it was a big dog and it didn't want me to get close to it.  I felt bad that I couldn't let anyone know what had happened.  I think it will be all right but really needed to go to the vet to get its leg taken care of.

I finally made it official and signed up for the Boston Marathon.  I am really exicted about going.  Know I need to talk my wife into going with me.  She is always concerned about leaving the kids but hopefully we can work it out.  As far as this fall marathon goes, my plans keep getting messed up.  I found out at work yesterday that I am going to have to go back to Hawaii the same week that I had planned on running the Memphis so now that is not going to happen.  I think what I will do now is just run the local Moumential marathon the first week of Nov.  I don't feel like I am really ready to run it but that will probably be my only chance to get  a marathon in this year.  That is another reason I did the long run today because I am about 3 weeks out from that marathon so will have to start taper next week if I am going to do it. 

2:38:32 (7:56 avg)

Orlando. Got back from Disney late last night so slept in a little bit. It was a warm morning around 70. The person at the front desk told me their was a walking path next to the hotel but it only lasted about a half mile. I guess I should have told her what I was looking for. After that I went on the roads around the park and their was too much traffic so luckily I found a golf course so ran through it.

I just took it real easy. My legs felt tired. Could be from the long run or from walking all day yesterday. Glad to get a run in going to Disney Hollywood studios today.

Orlando. Another full day yesterday so quick run this morning before heading back to the park. I felt a little better today but legs still flat. I don't have very high expections for the race tomorrow due to walking around all day before the race. Probably just treat it as a tempo workout.

7:40 avg

Short report since it is Midnight. The race started at 10:30 so wasn't sure how I would feel after being at Disney all day. I felt pretty good warming up so decided to go out around 10K pace and see what happened. I was able to stay petty close to pace all the way. Really started to feel it the last mile. The last mile was in the park and had a lot or turns so it was hard to stay on pace. Since it was dark it was hard to see the mile splits on the watch so tomorrow I will see how it went by mile. Overall very happy with the result. Now I need to get some rest before flying home in the morning.

Went back and looked at my splits. Here they are:

6:16, 6:13, 6:18, 6:13, 6:21, 6:21, 6:11, 6:22

Pretty even splits.  Probably could have went a little harder on the 5th and 6th miles.  I had some drop off on the last mile but a lot of that was from all of the turns in the park.