Let's do this!

4 miles @ 4:30 pm river trail out and back. Hot out. My legs felt tight all over. Probably due to the faced paced dreadmill workout yesterday.  Avg pace 7:41. 

Goals this week:

hit 45-50 miles

Two a day workouts on my recovery mode days

Eat no sugar and less carbs. I can do this. I've done it before.

Drop 3 lbs. I can do this :)

Lovin this weather, but Thurs-Sun look terrible. ugh.

Strength trained doing random stuff. Elliptical for 40 minutes

Ran 7.70 the river trail in reverse plus some extensions. Going to stick to my goal of no sugar this week. I can do this. Avg pace 7:42 PM update** 3.5 on the river trail. Welcome back two-a-dayers! I never ran many two-a-days last year. I was so afraid of re-injuring. All I know is that in 2010, two a days boosted my fitness. I'm hoping for the same this year.

Strength training again, random stuff. 32 minutes elliptical.

6.5 outside. Temps were better this morning, not as cold as yesterday. Legs felt a little heavy, but totally understandable since I ran twice yesterday. Creepy things this morning, spotting a big black garbage bag in the weeds near a pasture. Obviously with something in it. I let it creep me out for a minute. Sometimes I am startled by my own shadow in the mornings during my run. Just a few more weeks and the sun will be out even earlier. I generally run 6-7 am, sometimes 5:30 if I need to cover a longer distance. I can't wait for summer though.

avg pace: a slow recovery 8:05

3 more miles I hope this evening. Probably just as slow or slower

A very interesting morning at the track. I came with a 200m workout that Jake was so nice to share with me. I started trembling a little as I pulled up to the track. I always do. That quickly leaves once I warm up thankfully. 

1.5 mile warm up at a very slow pace. My friend Julie showed up. She did some small spurts of her own speed work, but I plugged into my own. So...

3x (4x200m) with a 200m recovery in between, 400m recovery after the 4th repeat on each set.

SO HARD. SO SWEATY -it was warmer out today. SO DETERMINED. I made it through all 12!

I need to get them all a little more consistent with the times, but, splits for each 200: 

1- 40 sec

2- 46 ah oh, too slow

3- 43 more like it

4- 42 sec

5- 44

6- 42

7- 44

8- 45 too slow

9- 44

10-43

11- 44

12- 41

Ran some cool down with Julie after. Beautiful morning.

Pm update*** ran a very slow 3 miles. didn't feel to bad. But I could tell my legs were sore from this mornings track stuff.

I'm tired. 

60 minutes on the elliptical. medium level.

 Ran 5 miles at a  slower recovery pace (8:06) My legs are a little tired from the track plus the 3 extra miles I did last night. But it's a good thrashed, not bad. They are learning to take a beating again :)

Ok so let's play a game of honesty.

I am tired. Really tired. Out of control tired. it's been going on for months. I just haven't said much. My husband can vouch for me. I am acting like a person with mono. What should I do? I was thinking I need to go get my iron levels checked. Strangely enough, since that has been some chatter on Christi's and Andrea's blog this week. I feel like shiz. One day I am ok, and my turnovers are awesome. Then for several days I crash and feel sluggishly slow and fatigued all around. Maybe I am over training in the x-train dept? Many things to consider but I know I feel like crap for a few months now. I am kind of sad about it....

problem 2: my right calf has been hurting since my track workout Wed. Close to the bone about halfway down. It hurts. And something Allie said Sun or Monday scared me. Her first sign of her fracture was a sore calf. Yikes! I hit up the BCCA with l-glutamin supp today. That helps repair soft tissue in the body. I took this many times last summer. And during my quad strain just before Hobble creek. Waaaah me. I am feeling sorry for myself today. 

 Weights for about 35 minutes, nothing hard or crazy. Talked a lot.

17 minutes on the elliptical.

Ran 6.25 semi-sluggish miles outside. Avg pace 7:52

13 miles this morning. 7:37 avg.