Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

5.0 @ 8:35 pace.  Just a little general soreness with the only annoying spots being both ankles from all my clutzy steps yesterday.

My first early-morning run.  Didn't like it.  But the run went ok in spite of the cold, dark tiredness.  Did 7 miles with 2 slow, 3 fast, and 2 slow:

2 in 17:35 (8:47 avg)

3 in 23:06 (7:48, 7:40, 7:38)

2 in 18:23 (9:12 avg, I was tired!)

Overall 8:28 pace.  That should be enough fast miles for the week, I say.

Barely slogged through all 5 today - didn't really eat anything beforehand (I ran at 1pm) so the energy completely left me early.  Garbage miles are still miles though.  Tomorrow will be my last Thursday rest day as I move to 6 runs/week next week.

Did a core workout with my wife, Danielle.  I didn't know what a core workout was until this week so I'm doing pretty good there.  She gave me a few exercises (plank, pushups, flutter kicks and a couple others) which we repeated twice.  I'll try to fit this in a couple times a week, I think.

Ran on the dreaded TM for 4.0 (8:48 overall pace).  15 degree wind chill is too much for this native Texan.  Still had a dull pain in one ankle before the run but it went away after a couple miles.  Went up to 9 mph for a minute to test it and it's fine.  Green light for long run tomorrow!

Well, the ankle was uncomfortable this morning.  I started my run and only made it a few houses down.  This was supposed to be my first 10-mile run but it'll have to wait.  I guess it's a minor sprain from rolling it at the trail race but it's weird that is wasn't this bad earlier in the week (I've obviously run on it a few times since rolling it).  Guess it needs time to heal up?  My mistake was not icing it right away after the race, but it just didn't seem bad at the time.  Anyway, will ice it today and probably end up giving it a few days rest, we'll see.  Bummer.