Sean's Running Blog

I'm in Carlsbad for a work conference and had the privilege of running in chilly, rainy SoCal. It actually didn't rain much during the run but there was a strong onshore breeze which kept things perfectly cool. Turns our more than half of my run was along the Carlsbad Marathon route. not exactly a flat or fast marathon.

A gorgeous day in San Diego but a bummer of a workout. There are just days where you don't have it and today was one of those days. I jogged over to the UC San Diego track for my 7x800m workout. Goal was 2:21 on 90 seconds rest.

2:21, 2:22, 2:22, 2:24, 2:26, 2:30, 2:29. Just ugly. But I've learned everyone has a bad workout here and there and if they say they don't they are either lying or their workouts aren't hard enough. The important thing was I stuck with it and didn't quit. It would have been easy to.

Things got even more interesting on the way home. I took a slightly different way back to my hotel and what was supposed to be a 12-14 mile run turned in to 20+. San Diego is full of hills and valleys and apparently I got on the wrong side of one of the valleys and before I knew it, I was a lot farther from my hotel than I thought and had no short way to get back. Fortunately, I had brought some money with me so I could buy a water. But I was pretty dehydrated when i got back.

Only had time for 10 this afternoon. It poured for the last four miles of the run but the prize was a lovely set of rainbows.

Ran through a steady rain this afternoon. Fortunately it was relatively warm.

Managed to get a workout in between rain episodes. Ran a 7M tempo cutdown in 2:2:2:1 format in 5:28; 5:20; 5:12 and 5:04. Hit all of my times. I was especially hapyp about hitting 5:04 on Mile 7. Part B of the plan was to jog 3 miles or so before doing 10x1-minute hills on 2:00 rest. By the time I got to the hill I could tell 10x was going to be too many. My legs were pretty shot and it didn't help that the weather was starting to move in and it felt like the temp dropped 10 degrees in a matter of minutes. So I did 5 instead and then headed home.