Run for your life!

Good run. 4 easy miles. Others were at 8, 7:47, 7:41, 7:30, 7:30 and 7:14. My left foot big toenail is toast. It's been dying a slow death and causes minor discomfort at times. Also, my right leg has some soreness between the calf and the ankle kind of on the outer portion of the back of this section. I've been running on it like this for about two weeks and it neither gets worse nor improves. I need to ice it, but who has time!

Went to spin class in the evening.

Ran 3 easy miles. Then 5 at 8min/mi. Finished with three at 7:30. Felt good except for the toe and the right leg thing.

Good run. As always, tired at 5am, but once I got warmed up I started to challenge myself. Warmed up for two miles at 8:34. Then alternated between a "challenge" mile and an 8:34 mile. Ended up doing the following:

6:40, 7:30 at 4 on the incline, 6:00 (never done that for a mile before), 6:40, 7:30 at 4 on the incline.

It was a good workout. The right leg felt fine after ibuprophen and ice last night. Left leg had a little soreness in exactly the same spot. Weird.

Easy run on TM for first 7 miles (8:34 pace) with last 3 at 7:30. Felt good except for left leg still a bit sore. Wants to give out ocasionally. Iced after and took some ibu. Should be okay.

Ran 2.5, Spun 16, Ran 2.5.

This was an utter slogfest! I ran out of gas in yesterday's spin class. Then I was up late last night. This morning I got up and felt like a slug. No energy. My only goal was to run 12 miles and get to a solid 60 for the week. I ate half an almond butter sandwich and talked my 14 year old (Nathan) into running a 5k with me. While I was getting ready I challenged my 10 year old son (Peter) to run 1 mile with me. He bought in. I ran 1.1 miles with Peter at 11:30 and talked him through completing it without walking. I gave him my gps watch and let him track his progress real time. He did it! I was proud of him. I dropped him off and picked up Nathan. The last (and first) time I ran with Nathan it was in a charity 5k. I made him run a little too fast and he puked at mile 2.8. My goal today was to make sure he had a good experience running the 5k. We ended up running 4.02 miles at an average pace of 9:30. He did great. He even agreed to come with me again. He has an awesome attitude. Then I picked up the dog and we ran two miles together at about an 8:45 pace. She is a beagle and even though she's driven by her nose, she runs pretty well and has a natural trot that fits my steady long run pace. Then I took off for 9 of the hardest miles. Legs must be depleted of all glycogen. Anyway, I finished the last mile at 7:54 and ran an overall 8:32 for these last 9. Now it's time to relax.