What ever it takes!

Lifetime is a jetlags best friend.  I was wide awake at 2:00am forced myself to lay in bed until 3:00 with about 1 million things going through my head and finally just gave up and went to the gym with the idea of clearing my mind.  Plan on the drive to the gym was to just run 20 miles easy, but as I always do I got carried away and kept progressing and ended up doing mile 13 - 17 at 6:15 pace, decided I was pretty worn out after that and just ran a slow recovery mile and went and did some stretching and rolling out.

18 miles in 2:07:00

I had a chat with my wife yesterday about social media.  She is totally against it and thinks it's the root of all things evil.  I don't totally agree but there is a lot of negativity on Facebook and Twitter.  I was thinking about it and realized how much I like Fastrunningblog, it's nice that it has, for the most part a very positive feel around it, and a very positive theme.  It's really quite amazing that this site was around long before any of those other sites, and that it has such a loyal fan base.

Thanks Sasha!!

Oh! one other thing I was thinking about.  If I can manage to stay injury free, and figure out how to stop eating so much junk so I can loose 20lbs I think 2013 is going to be a very good year for me.   By the way, I'm feeling very good today, despite only sleeping 4 hours. 

Despite staying up late to watch Brady lay it down on the Texans (I love to watch pure excellence) I was still wide awake at 3:30am, I actually was up at 1:30 but managed to get back to sleep for a bit.

Did a good job of just running easy this morning until the last mile I went and ran in 5:40, pretty much just stupidity and I about puked all over the treadmill when I was done, but 1 good thing came out of it.  I found out I can run a 5:40 mile at the end of an 18 miler. 

18 miles in 2:10:30 

Very warm and very windy outside this morning.  I'm not sure why I'm telling you this cause I ran inside on the treadmill.

18 miles in 2:15:00 7:30 flat pace the whole time. 

How's that for mixing things up?

Basically 2 1 hour progressive runs, followed by a 3 mile cool down.

8.25 miles in 60 minutes

8.75 miles in 60 minutes

3 miles in 22 minutes.

20 miles in 2:22:00

I was thinking, as I sometimes do on the treadmill.  I could easier run 50 miles at 7:00 pace than I could 10 miles at 6:00 pace.  What does that mean exactly?  It seems like being able to run 50 miles would suggest I'm in pretty good shape so why is it so hard for me to run 1 min/mile faster.  I think it means I'm getting old, strange how the older you get the slower you get but you seem to have more endurance.  I'm sure there is a book on this somewhere. 

As much as I would love to go run another 20 miles on the treadmill again tomorrow I think I'll take a break and swim or something crazy.  I would really like to go run with the big group on Saturday, not that I could keep up with them anyway, but I'll have a much better chance if I take it easy tomorrow. 

Plan was to only swim today, but I am dealing with a horrible case of insomnia lately, just to much on my mind and I don't think I every got over Jet Lag.  I've been probably only averaging 4 hours of sleep per night this week.  So anyway, got to the gym at 4:00 and didn't want to swim for a full 2 hours so I just ran a slow 10 before hitting the pool.  

When I wrecked on my bike this summer I tore my shoulder up pretty good, it doesn't bother me for most things but swimming made it really hurt.  The extending over my head was very uncomfortable, so I cut the swim short too.

10 miles in 1:21:30 on the treadmill

24 lap in the pool in about 40 minutes. 

Interesting,  After this week I was thinking, I sure do run a lot of miles on treadmills, so I decided to find out exactly how many.  I went and added a treadmill shoe to my profile and went back through the entire year and added treadmill miles in.  It was pretty cool to re-visit my entire year in 30 minutes.  Anyway, Turns out that of the almost 2,500 miles I have run this year, only 705 were on treadmills.  It feels like more, especially after this week.

This is why I workout at 4:00 in the morning, if I wait until the family wakes up there are just way to many other things I should be doing rather than running.  The snow didn't have a whole lot to do with me not going, I like to do crazy things, but the snow did influence how my wife thought the day should go, and the things I should be doing instead of running.

I'm not sure if the big group actually got together this morning, but I'm pretty upset I didn't just go to the gym at get a run in.