running for my mind

walk/bike ride around with the fam.

Olive had a temp of 103 last night so Whit and I spent the night taking turns getting little sleep.

Headed out to the parkway after work and Whit rode the bike next to me with Olive and Grey in tow. Fun to be out there together. When I got home, I got the chills. Hot bath. Apple juice. Bed. Not the best time to get sick.

 

Best pacing crew around! @wclissold with Grey and Olive in tow. #runmehappy

A photo posted by james e clissold (runmehappy) (@james_clissold) on Apr 13, 2015 at 6:28pm PDT

sick

set my alarm and woke up at 5 willing to run. then, i remembered josh telling me last year that more sleep and rest might be better than a 10 miler. i could have lugged through it and probably been fine, but i didn't really eat anything yesterday and another day of rest to come back strong on thursday is the better option. turned my alarm off and slept for another 2 hours.

not 100%. yet, here.

last night was rough. stomach pain like I have never experienced came on at about 6pm. thought I was going to end up in the ER like Fritz a few months back having an organ removed. started feeling ok and fell asleep about 10pm. woke up at 2 with similar pain. fetal position. sleep. woke up at 5:30 and decided to run.

hope I don't experience that again. something was not right.

12 along the parkway with Tyler. Good to have him come up and join me. Lots of laughs and good conversation. 

Body is feeling better. Earlier this week was quite the scare. 

Another depleted 20 and home by 7:45.

10 out and 10 back on the parkway solo. Took a gel at 10. No water. Goal was to run relatively easy with a strong finish of 4 miles sub 6:30.

Kept it at about 7:25-7:30 for the way out. Picked it up a hair on the way back and then ran 15-19 sub 6:30. I figured with yesterday's 12 and then a longer run today, pushing 4 miles at the end would be a good test of marathon pace on tired, or at least more tired, legs. Felt good. Excited for another big week of training next week...though this week was not really "big" with my 2 days off due to illness.

6:27.4, 6:27.2, 6:26.9, 6:19.5

Good luck to those running Salt Lake as I type this and to those running Boston on Monday!