Sean's Running Blog

Seattle is not Hawaii. Arrived early this morning at 5:45 PST exhausted. Got the kids off to school and then crashed until noon. Still pretty tired but went out in the cool rain and ran anyway. I miss Hawaii.

A chilly but beautiful sunny run from home down to Snoqualmie and back again. Even delivered my son's forgotten lunch to his school.

Today was easily one of my worst, most embarassingly disastrous workouts ever. Maybe the absolute worst. Certainly the worst in recent memory.

It was supposed to be a 1x1000m at 2:52 with :90 rest, then 2x800 at 2:18 with :90 rest, followed by 2x 600m at 1:38 with 70 seconds rest finishing with 4x400m at :65 with :60 rest.

I missed all of them...badly. Really badly.

2:55 for the first 1000m. The worst part is I was already DONE!

2:24 and 2:28 for the 800s. Not quite sure how I kept going after laying such a turd.

1:47 and 1:46 for the 600s. Good thing I didn't have a gun.

:68 and :68 for the 400s. Scary that the closest I came to hitting my times came on the shortest distance. I skipped the final two 400s. I was too upset not to mention tired. Ugh.

I don't even know what to think of this workout. To be honest, retirement sounds pretty good right now.

A.M. 7

P.M. 7.25

What better way to spend your 38th birthday than doing a long tempo cutdown run. Yippee!!! After the embarassing disaster that was Wednesday's workout I didn't want to wait until Saturday to redeem myself.

The workout was a 10M tempo with the first 6M at 5:36, the next two at 5:16 and the final two at 5:08. I did them all on the track to help me stay mentally focused.

First 6=5:33, 5:33, 5:33, 5:33, 5:30, 5:33, 5:35

Next 2=5:16, 5:16

Last 2=5:07, 5:07

A really solid workout especially after laying such an egg two days ago. The thing I was most pleased with was the pacing. After the first mile, I only looked at my watch every half mile rather than every quarter.

I LOVE my new ST 5 Racers.

This morning I awoke at 5:30 after a really poor night of sleep camping with my son at his Klondike Derby at Ensign Ranch just west of Cle Elum. To be fair, I was in a heated cabin but the "beds" were plywood bunks and I "graciously" gave my sleeping pad to my son. So it was me, my sleeping bag and a very solid piece of wood.

THe run was a bit spooky since it was dark and basically wilderness. The last 6 miles I did on the John Wayne Centennial Trail which goes from Snoqualmie all the way to at least Montana and maybe farther. Not a fan of running on gravel but it was a good way to kill some mileage.

Chilly, but I was prepared.