Long May You Run

Today's workout involved jelly beans, M&M's and a 3 hour nap.  Later in the day I brought in 2 boxes of Easter decorations from the garage and filled the bird feeders.  That's it.

4.65 miles 40:36  8:45 ave pace.

Mondays are rough, good to be home. 

5.15 am miles 8:46 ave pace

11.9 pm miles 1:45:24  8:51 ave pace.  felt like a bona fide  runner this afternoon.  Had some energy, rhythm and focus.  I know I'll feel like trash in a few days so I enjoyed it while it lasted.

5.65 am miles  51:47  9:10 ave pace

12.65 pm miles 1:49:34  8:40 pace.   Coldest run of the year.  Wind and snow but I had to get it done.  I'm only going to be able to run about 10 total tomorrow and Friday is always minimal so this was my last day to log some miles between now and Saturday.  I'm glad it's over and done with.

5.15 am miles 46:53  9:06 pace.

4.65 pm miles 42:39  9:10 pace.  Extremely beat up.  Kept this run short.  I wan't to be able to do 20 on Saturday. 

4.65 easy slow miles to work.  Should be okay for tomorrow's 20 miler.

20 miles out and back from home.  3:04:42  9:14 ave pace.  This is embarrassingly slow.  I had the wind at my back on the way out and in my face on the return.  I ran 9's going out and 9:30's back.  I hope this run does me some good because I sure didn't enjoy it.  I had no drive to run fast and the headwind didn't help.  Everything hurt.  Now that I'm back and settled in with an excellent cup of french pressed coffee I feel like I didn't even run.  I'ts probably because I ran so slowly it didn't take anything out of me.

I tried a new form a nourishment, Belvita something breakfast/cookie/biscuit thing.  It worked well.  This is the first time (this training year) that I took any kind of nourishment, I almost always don't.  My go to nourishment in a marathon is Fig Newtons.  I'm contemplating switching.  Fig Newtons have served me well so I don't even know why I'm even thinking about it.  My coffee cup is now empty and I need to get up for more and I'm not coming back so this is it.

Bad 20 miler in the books!