All it takes is all you've got

Easy run around Standley Lake with Aaron's sister, Ashley.  She is training for TOU also and happens to be in town for a few days visiting from Utah.  Aaron's other sister, Elisse and all their kids are also here.  Its a full house!  12 people in addition to our family of 5.  Fun times!

I am still feeling pretty under the weather.  I assume it is an upper respiratory infection that is dragging on.  The wicked cough is pretty annoying.  Anyone have any good remedy recommendations? 

Another easy run with Ashley.  I feel pretty crappy still.  But I called the Dr. this morning and decided that I just can't rationalize spending $150+ just to have a professional tell me I do indeed have an upper respiratory infection and then proceed to take antibiotics that will probably not even speed my recovery.  Been there, done that.  Would rather just rest and hydrate a lot and save my money thanks.

I'm finally starting to get my lungs back! Yeah!  This morning I started to feel a little bit better, and was able to push the pace a little without coughing my lungs up.  I'm still a little congested and coughing a bit, but my energy level is stronger.  8.5 miles at 7:14 ave.

2 miles warm up to the high school.  

800 M. at 2:45 - 1 lap jog

1600 M. at 5:56 - 1 lap jog

3200 M. at 11:55 - 1 lap jog

1600 M. at 5:57 - 1 lap jog

800 M. at 2:49

2 miles cool down

Drank 10 oz of water and 10 oz of gatorade as well as one honey stix throughout the workout.

Felt pretty great.  Not an easy workout, but I definitely feel good about doing it!  Tomorrow I'll recover and Saturday is long. 

Easy run on Big Dry Creek.  Felt pretty sore from doing my first track workout in probably 3 years yesterday.  Started to loosen up after a few miles though.  

I think I'll join in on a group run with a training group tomorrow.  This group called Runner's Edge of the Rockies does Tuesday track workouts and Saturday long runs for marathoners.  The coach said there are some guys shooting for sub 2:50 marathons in the fall so I can run with them.  I will see how I like it on Saturday and consider joining.  I'd really like to run with other people to push my pace a couple of times a week, but I just don't know if I can commit to the extra travel time. 

Joined the Runners Edge of the Rockies group run since they were meeting just 5 minutes from my house.  Seems like a pretty cool group.  They have about 250 people in the group and about 80 of them were there for the group run.  It was nice to have water and gatorade every few miles so I didn't have to wear a water belt.  I ran with the 3:15 marathon group for the first part(the sub 3:00 hour marathon pacer was not there today).  After a few miles a guy named Jason came up from behind and ran with us too.  He is shooting for a 2:40 marathon in October, and we pushed the pace for 5 miles around between miles 7-12, running 6:30-6:40 pace.  Average for the whole 14 miles was 7:17 min/mile.  I think I'll join them for next week's run in Golden.  They are doing a max of 18 miles but I'm not sure I'm ready for that since today is the longest I've done thus far.  Maybe I'll do 16 or 17 next weekend.