What ever it takes!

14 progressive treadmill miles in 1:33:13.  Felt pretty good, I do have some random aches and pains that I should probably pay more attention to.

Now a fun day of Christmas light hanging.

Ran with Scott, Dan, Mike, and Toni on the JRP this morning.  Was it hot, was it cold?  I really didn't know.  I was cold but somehow overheated.  On the way back Toni took off ahead, I decided to chase him down and Dan came with me.  After passing Toni, Dan and I went on about a 2 mile tempo run.  He broke me going up a hill but then slowed down at the top to let me catch him. I was thankful, and then started thinking about turkey dinner.

Even up until last night I thought about doing a treadmill marathon this morning, I pretty much knew it wouldn't be good and this morning as I hobbled out of bed I just wrote it off.  Went to the gym and just did my normal 12 mile progression run, I wore my heart rate monitor today for the first time in a long time which confirmed I wasn't ready for a treadmill PR anyway.  Last year I ran the entire 26.2 miles with an average HR of 160, mile 9 I did in 6:27 with an average HR of 162, today I hit mile 9 in 6:25 (progression to get there) and my Avg HR was 168.  So that verified that I'm just not in as good of shape as I was back then.  Which I already knew but now have the data to back it up.

12 miles in 1:25:33,  Avg HR 157

Oh, I forgot to mention I did 5 X sprints 13.1,13.2,13.3,13.4,13.5 MPH for the last mile so that probably brought the average up a bit.

I think this is funny http://thankful13.com/5k/5k-time/.  Apparently "The average person runs a 5K in about 33 minutes at 10 mph."

The average person must get lost a lot.

I was up until 12:00 last night putting together and early Christmas present that I thought would be fun to have for the whole family who are coming over for Thanksgiving today, (an air hockey table) so I didn't think I'd go to the gym this morning but I woke up at 4:15 anyway and couldn't get back to sleep so I went.  For the last mile I wanted to see what my 5K pace was, so being very optimistic I bumped it up to 5:27 pace, after 1/4 mile I realized that was more my 1/4 mile pace, slowed down for a quarter then tried 5:42 pace, that was a little better but realistically 5:50 is probably all I'm good for in a 5K.

The entire family is going to run the Thanksgiving point 5K this morning, plan is to run with Bradin while pushing Zach in the stroller while Britt runs with Ethan.  If I get there and look around and think an 18 minute 5K could win me a Turkey I may go for it, if not I'll stick to the plan of running with Bradin.

10 miles in 1:12:30

Pretty good races today, it was very cold and windy at the start.  I headed to the front of the line with Bradin and Walter was there.  I talked to him for a bit and he told me he was going to go out hard.  I decided to start out fast too, I was feeling good and like the cold, I told Bradin to just run like we have practiced cause I wanted to win a turkey.  I went out fast, but not as fast as Walter and 4 others, I was going about 5:05 pace and realized that was a bad move so I slowed down a bit.  Right around then I really started having issues with the stroller, the wind was blowing it all over and the break lever kept falling down.  I'd kick it back with my foot but it wouldn't stay.  I about over turned the stoller a few times cause it just wouldn't run straight at that speed.  Eventually I just gave us and waited for Bradin.  Kind of a bummer cause Walter wasn't official and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th place were 20 minutes, I know I could have run sub 20 without the stoller. O'well, Bradin, Ethan, and Zach all did awesome.  I'll let them write their own reports.

Gave up my morning run so Britt could go shopping with Bradin.  Pretty rare occasion when I'm sitting on the couch watching TV at 6:00am.

Guess I'll go pull out the ol' Christmas Tree now.

Afternoon,

Finished my Christmas chores and rewarded myself with a nice easy run on a perfect day for running.  My right foot is hurting on my heel, feels kind of like plantar fasciitis, which really sucks.

I have no idea what my deal was today.  Went to the gym and got on the treadmill planning on running 14 but I just never really got into it, I didn't hurt, I don't feel sick but I just had no legs and just felt out of sorts.  All I can explain it as is tiredness I guess, after 3 miles I stopped and went to the elliptical for 30 minutes, tried to run again but didn't feel any better so I just went and lifted weights instead.

This next week is going to be pretty rough as far as running goes, I fly out to Palo Alto California tomorrow and throw a quick 1 day Google conference together, then on Wednesday I hop on a flight to Prague for 10 days, then I come home and can hopefully enjoy the rest of the year.