Denouement

Only goals I reached last week were to play with my kids each day and go to the temple, but I guess those are the ones to meet if I have to give a couple up.  I worked more hours last week than I ran miles, and that is just not right.

Goals this week:  Play with my kids each day, run 6 days, run 60 miles, sleep 5.5 hours during the week, enjoy elements of each day. 

Easy boring run on treadmill.  I did have my new mp3 player so that made it a little more fun.  I counted my foot strike for one minute twice.  The first time was 184, and I thought that I must have been trying to do it faster to hit the magic 180, so I measured again trying to not mess with my stride and hit 184 again.

Worked last night so I could wake up later: 4am.  I tend to run better if I just wake up and do it.  Met with MacK.  I had the "brilliant" idea of running through the Salem farm land to SF and back.  That is a cold section of land!  Where we started it was 16F but I bet it dipped below 10F in the flat lands.  Boy.  My gps watch is dead so I relied on MacK's.  She is so funny, at the end I asked for my average pace but she didn't know how to get it, so I showed her the history screen and it showed us as having run 1 lap, so she doesn't have mile laps set.  

 8:30 ave pace. 

Woke up at 3:19, hopped on treadmill, listening to new Foo Fighters cd.  At 2.5 miles a song I really like comes on with a fast pace so I decide to up the pace to 6:44 (was a marathon effort because of sleep issues) and held that pace for 2 miles then backed off again.  Got to save some juice for Josse tomorrow :)

With .5 to go I started to get a sour stomach but the song I kept trying to find finally came on Erase/Replace on the new Foo Fighters CD.  I was so happy to have the song I forgot about my stomach.

Now at work and my stomach is still feeling yucky, but only mildly so. 

Felt way worn down yesterday so "slept in" until 4:25am.  Paul is out of town so my weekday outside running will be in the mid-morning while my youngest is in preschool.

Josie was kind enough to arrange to meet me in SF.  We were supposed to do speed, but I woke up with a sore throat and generally feel lethargic, and she has a race on Sat. so we decided just to do a bunch of strides.  We had some not so nice dogs approach us barking, and I was like, "Josse, seriously stay right by my side, I am scared!"  They didn't bite.  Then when we were doing strides a nicer dog joined us and was more energetic than us, I would taunt the dog with competitive rhetoric then he would smoke me during the stride.  I tried to focus on my form.  The dog smoked us on number 10, hurting my pride :)

 Thanks for bending over backwards for my crazy schedule Josse!  You make my running so much more enjoyable.

 I mailed off my Garmin for repair/replacement after the run.  I will likely get it back in 3-4 weeks.  I guess that's ok since I am getting slower and don't especially care to know it every mile and I am doing lots of treadmill anyway.

pace thanks to Josse's garmin:

ave pace 8:07.

 

I got more sleep last night because I am fighting a cold.  It hasn't become full blown yet and I felt better this morning than yesterday, so I am hoping my increased sleep will keep it at bay.  I went on the treadmill and planned to do 7 miles, but the dang thing started to trip our electrical switch (what are those things called, they are in a big grid in your basement or laundry room?).  Oh, yeah, circuit breaker.  Its wierd, we have been using the treadmill in that location for a dozen or more runs without problems but today it is suddenly an issue.  Any ideas on what the problem might be?

Now I have to run extra long on Saturday to get my 60 :(

I overslept.  I heard my alarm but wasn't rational enough to get out of bed.  So I rushed when I finally woke up.  I had to get gas on the way to meeting the SF group.  So I drove to tree line road and saw some runners but didn't recognize anyone so just parked and started to look for running buddies.  I saw Kim and Tom, then a guy I recognized came along and I finally put a face to a name: Clay!  It was so nice to meet you.  Tom said Ally and MacK were somewhere behind, so I tried to find them, by running back on tree line road.  I found the running group proper but no MacK or Alli (I am so sorry ladies that I flaked on you.  I will do better next time!).  Steve King was with the SF group and we started to chat and he found out I just started and wouldn't let me stop for gatorade--he was right I didn't need any, I was just into the run about 1.5-2 miles (no GPS!).  Steve asked if I was game for Harry's hill, and I said sure.  The hill is like Veyo and it stinks, but I survived through it.  We ran comfortably hard (probably 7:30ish) but some miles were harder and we did a couple of pick ups.  I generally ran much harder than I would of on my own.  It's so nice to be pushed, but it kind of stinks too.

I sure hope Josse does well today in her race.  I was thinking of her during my run.

Follow up:  My legs and whole body was so tired in the afternoon.  I am not sure if I ran harder than I thought, I am more out of shape than I am thinking, it is the sickness that hadn't gone away completely, or if I just am still suffering from inadequate sleep and/or excessive stress.