Road back from FAT!!!!!

Met Ken, Riley, Jon, Albert and Bret this morning at the pond for an easy Monday morning run. Had a great chat. Really excited to see Riley, Ben, Bryant and the other FRB guys kill the SGM this weekend. Gets me more excited to kill the next one. SLC Marathon here I come!

PM 3.03 miles. Just wanting to stay in the habit of doubling.

Today was meant to be an Aerobic Building Day. Sadly, the cold I have been fighting off finally caught up with me. Met with Riley, Albert and Bob Freakin' Lambert at the pond and they did the warm up with me. During which my headlamp died. After a game of ring around the rosie with headlamps I ended up with Riley's. Man that kid must have a big head because even after I tightened it, the thing was still bouncing off my face or I just have a tiny head. (But seeing as I see myself a normal we'll say he's the freak). Started off and really felt like I was struggling to hold pace but kept at it thinking it was just cold legs warming up. Hit the first mile in 5:41 then continued to struggle on the second mile 5:49 kept at it for another half mile 2:52 before something from the cold I have had dripped down my throat and I spent the next 2 minutes hacking. Decided to call it in lieu of over doing it. Ran back for a total of 10. On a good note weighted myself for the first time in a while and well down a couple pounds. I plan on not weighing myself overly often until I feel like my fitness has truly come around. Don't want to focus on my weight yet. I know for me to be competitive, I will need to be around 150-153 but I also know if I hit my mileage goals the weight will come off naturally. I also feel my hard workouts will become more consitant the more miles I get under my legs. As my body adjusts to 85-95 miles a week.

Woke up this morning with a sore throat (from the cold I seem to have caught, Thanks co-workers who refuse to take sick leave and show up to work cough, hacking and touching everything) decided mid run that any more would hamper my attempts at a workout tomorrow just gonna go home take some vitamin C and rest. Honestly this was my planned down week so no harm to mileage or training really, just need to get healthy.

Didn't run yesterday because my cold was at its worst. coughing up a lung. :( However met Bret early this morning for what was planned to be a easy 60ish minute run. We started talking about the govt shutdown and well the pace picked up and it felt good so when we realized 5 miles later that we were hauling (5:50 pace) we kept up the same effort all  the way in. we were 53:05 for the 9.2 after a 7:35 first mile. So AP 5:48. Not my best workout but pretty good. Sad note cars at work had snow on them this morning. BOOOO!

13.52 with kayla then 3 more on my own.