Distance runners; We can do it longer.

Rest day. I told myself I would go easy 30 minutes on the treadmill today but my body decided to take a nap instead. I'm not too worried about missing a workout today, though. I think a day of rest drops my chance of injury by quite a bit. And I would not want to get a nagging injury during training that carries over to the track season. Tomorrow I start two a days all week except on my hour and a half run days.

A.M. Dragged myself out of bed to do 4 on the treadmill before school. The only thing I enjoy about morning treadmill runs is that I get to wear my short shorts, which aren't very fashionable in the cold or at school. But man are they comfortable.

 P.M.  8 more miles on the treadmill after school. I picked the random setting thinking it would be like a fartlek run, but instead it turned out to be like running up a giant hill with hardly any flat. It felt a lot like running up Jump Off Joe, and my pace fell from 7:00 to 7:30 then down to 8:00 after a while. I think random is comparable in difficulty to the hill setting. It's that tough.

That nap yesterday took a chunk out of my sleeping time too. But it helped so much that I felt like I would have been fine with only 5 hours of sleep.

A.M. 30 minutes easy on the treadmill. About 3.75 miles

P.M. Another 30 minutes. Workout got cut short because they kicked everybody out of the cardio room early. Maybe 4.5, around there.

A.M. 4 miles easy on the treadmill. Okay, so I lied. I ran in the morning on my long workout day. So what?! :P I wanted to make up for those miles I missed yesterday. 

 P.M. An hour of hills on the treadmill about 8:00 pace. That was around 7.5 miles. Then I did 30 minutes on the flat at 6:50'ish.  That was 4.25.

Well after deriving the quadratic formula in my head, I figured that I was on pace for over 70 miles this week. And once I found the square root of pi, I figured that a 20 mile mileage jump from week 4 to 5 was a wee bit too much. So I'm going to cut my rest days down to 8 miles, instead of the usual 10 I do on those days. Seem like enough? I have a rest day every other day.

P.M. 8 on the treadmill. No morning run today because my computer/alarm decided to shutdown and install some updates instead of reminding me to wake up early. Thanks a lot VISTA. We all love you so much more now. 

A.M. 4 easy on the treadmill

 P.M. 5.25 at 6:40 pace. Apparently nobody at our school uses the weight room after school on Fridays so coach came over and opened it for us for 30 minutes. 

Felt like crap today because I didn't get much sleep, I hope. So no run today. Moved my long run to tomorrow.