Don't wanna be FAT!

Woke up with no motivation at all to run. Forced myself out of bed started running then turn around and came home after 1/2 block then forced myself to turn around and start my run again. Never did get going I was at over 8 minute pace and decided to bag it 2 miles in and turned around and went back home and climbed back into bed. I don't have any idea what my problem was. It was all mental. My legs felt just fine.  I hope I can get some motivation back tomorrow morning.  AP:  8:13.  Pathetic.  

I got woken up early this morning by a cute little girl and I wasn't going back to sleep. So with the extra time I decided to do the workout I was planning on doing Saturday. I was hoping to get 12 mile aerobic builder. I did it a little faster than planned and got 11 instead of 12.  

2 mile warm-up w/ strides  

11 mile builder splits:  5:26, 5:16, 5:18, 5:16, 5:15, 5:22, 5:21, 5:25, 5:21, 5:28, 5:23 for a total of 58:52 and an average of 5:21.  

3 mile cool down

Good workout, but I was super fresh after slacking off for the last several days.  

Penny woke me up real early again (just before 5:00 a.m. I know that's normal for you Utah County guys, but I'm used to waking up around 6:00) so she got to come on my run with me.  It was a pleasant morning the moon was bright and the temps were nice and cool.  Stroller miles AP:  7:29.  

I'm feeling good physically, but I'll be the first to admit that mentally I have been a bit of a head case this week.  This morning I laid in better for 20 minutes after my alarm went off before I finally convinced myself to get out of bed and go for my run, hence the shorter run this morning.  I wanted to get 11 in this morning.  But, 9.25 is a lot better than nothing.  I just need to hold on for a few more weeks (until STG is over) then I will take a little break.  AP:  6:41.

My plan was to try and average around 5:50 pace for 16 miles on this one.  I didn't do a warm-up or anything just jumped right into it and my first mile was a 5:39.  For the next couple of miles I felt really good and ran 5:29 and 5:35, so I decided to just try and run 16 miles at close to marathon pace.  I ended up running 16 miles in a total time of 1:27:50 which is a 5:29 average.  

Mile splits were:  5:39, :29, :35, :28, :29, :30, :31, :25, :28, :23, :30, :36, :34, :24, :27, :20.  

This was an out-and-back on the Syracuse Trail.

This was a very good workout for me and a good confidence builder.  Weather conditions were very nice, nice cool temps and very little wind.