Don't wanna be FAT!

I was feeling Saturday's run a little at first which is to be expected, but after about 4-5 miles I started feeling good.  AP: 6:54 but it took 5 miles before I finally got a mile under 7:00.  

Feeling good and strong.  The mental woes have subsided for now.  AP: 6:28.  

As an exciting side note, all 3 of our kids slept through the night last night.  I didn't think that would ever happen, it was glorious!

3.73 mile warm-up with strides up to Roy High, 4x1600 with 2 minutes active recovery ~250 meters jogging, 3.60 mile cool down back home.  Target pace was 5:00.  I was planning on doing 6, but I have had a really minor cold and after the 4th one I was feeling it in the lungs a little so I decided I better not over do it because I don't want this minor cold to turn into something worse.  I felt good on the 4 that I did though and definitely feel like I could have done 6.  Just playing things on the conservative side.  

Splits were:  4:57.99, 4:59.98, 4:59.96, 4:58.00

I was proud of how even they were, each quarter split was very close to 75.  

Started out the first few miles real slow and stiff this morning.  After about 4 miles I started feeling much better.  I was surprised to have been able to pull down the average to below 7:00 minute pace after starting out around 7:40 pace.  AP:  6:55

I wanted to run 11 this morning, but I couldn't get myself out of bed in time to run 11 so I settled for 9.5.  Once I did get out of bed and going I felt good.  AP:  6:45 

This was an awful run.  I was hoping to get 8-10 miles of aerobic builder in at around 5:25 pace.  I warmed up 3 miles with strides then got going with the builder.  I was giving it all I had just to maintain 5:30 pace through 3 miles and so I stopped because I could tell I was giving too much effort and felt like continueing would do more damage than good.  Then I had 6 miles to run to get home and I had to stop and walk for a bit.  I don't know what the problem was, but the energy just felt completely depleted.  I think I must have some kind of bug.  I just hope I can turn things around before SGM.