Fuel SMART,Train HARD, Run FAST.

6 easy miles this morning down Main. I ran with new shoes and compression sleeves. I'm not quite sure which one of those contributed to my legs feeling awesome, but I plan a repeat in attire for tomorrow's mp workout.

This day had high hopes to begin with, but ended up not going as planned.

I woke up extra early to run down to the track to get some mp miles in. However, when I woke up it was so incredibly windy, I went to the gym instead. I warmed up for 5 mins on the elliptical before I transitioned to running. After just starting,  I had terrible nausea come over me. It was hard to watch the others workout, even watching their movements made me sick. Whatever, I had to get over it.  So I turned up my ipod and turned up the speed. Bad idea. After a short bathroom break, I decided to run some 400's instead. I did 4X400 @ 90 sec with equal rest before I had to end. It just wasn't happening today, at all. The crazy thing is that I was not sick for the rest of the day. Boo!

2 mile wu

4x1 mile @ 6:13 hmp/ 90 sec standing rest. 

3 min rest before starting 5k tempo

5k @ 19:06 (6:08ap)

2 mile cd

I think this workout would have been fun to do on a track.  I've noticed my stride changes on a TM. I altered the incline at .5 for a couple intervals then leveled out again. 

Someone keyed my car several times all the way around yesterday. Someone hates me out there. Im finding that having a dark car is silly.

Easy 5 miles at the gym with a circuit of pushups, planks, clock sit ups, and PT hip exercises. Long run tomorrow.

Dead legs. I'm not entirely sure what happened today. I got everything ready to go out for 19 miles this morning and it all fell apart, very fast. 

6:00am- First attempt. 2 miles. Legs were dead. Maybe I need to wake up more? Baby wakes up so I put it on hold.

9:00am- Second attempt. 1 mile. Not happening. Why are my quads shot and legs tingling??

11:00am- Third attempt- 5 miles. Not a single meter over. Legs are still shot and right knee is starting to hurt. 

It took three concerted tries to see the writing on the wall. It wasn't happening today and maybe not this week. No injuries for me. I think my tempo/interval day on Wednesday partially set me up for this. After the fact, I looked at my pace calculator and saw I was clearly out of the range where I should have been for a tempo (6:08 vs 6:23+). Then yesterday I did some funky leg exercises. All in all, made for a not so productive running day. Maybe I'll shoot for an early week long run on Monday, my birthday. Send presents.