Trying to keep up with you

Waiting for those Mesquite Marathon reports to come up.  Where are you Burt! 
Finally they arrive.  Very nice marathon everyone.  Josse once again amazes me how she can race so well so often!

I'm feeling a little burned out.  Not sure why.  Just overall muscle fatigue.  It may be that I am swimming on a regular basis again after a year or so and doing some (not much) upper body exercises.

The mixed blessing of Facebook...

I've reconnected to so many high school friends.  I went to high school in Asuncion, Paraguay so reconnecting with these old friends is a little miracle of sorts.  Unfortunetly that means I get to hear all the bad news from the last 20 years, as well as the good news.  Today I found out that a close friend of mine in high school committed suicide in 1997.  Very tough news to get and some guilt for no having made an effort to keep my friends closer.

So with that bad news and the physical fatigue/burn out I decided to take today off and maybe tomorrow too.  We'll see.  I'm sure the race reports will get my spirits back up. 

After two days off I was feeling anxious to get running again.  The break has done me a world of good.  The mental and physical fatigue over the past few weeks was taking me to the edge of burn out.  Today I woke up wanting to get a run in as soon as possible.  Unfortunetly it didn't occur until after work.  Tempo run day:

mile 1 - 8:43 warmup

mile 2 - 7:19

mile 3 - 7:21

mile 4 - 7:17

mile 4.5 (0.5 miles) - 4:10 (av pace 8:20)

mile 5.5 - 7:23

mile 6.5 - 7:18

mile 7.5 - 7:20

mile 8.5 - 7:19

mile 9.5 - 8:20 cooldown

This week the tempo run was 3 miles, 0.5 recovery jog, 4 miles.  I would like to build that to a 6 mile tempo, 0.5 recovery, 6 mile tempo with a tempo pace of 7:10 prior to my next marathon.  Felt rather strong through out the run.

Easy treadmill run.  Average pace 8:32.  Now its time to get cooking for tomorrow.

I ate way too much.  Should have waited a couple hours more before running.  Average Pace: 7:57.

Av pace 7:46 TM run

Feeling a little sluggish today.  It took about 3 to 4 miles to warmup and get into a rythm.  I've eaten sooo much lately that that is probably what is causing the "sluggishness".  Need to cut all those nasty sugars out, or at least drastically decrease them.

Av. pace: 8:41