Every Run is a Great Run!

Worked at home today and waited until around 11am to do the run.  Beautiful day out today, enjoyable run, a little soreness in the quads and shins but felt pretty good after about 3 miles. 

8:12/148

Today Kim and I celebrate 25 years together. Wow that went by pretty quick! It's been quite the ride, a little wild and crazy at times, but lots and lots of good times and memories and looking forward to many more.  Love you Kimi! 

Five miles in the early hours.  Did a few strides along the way. Later went to the gym for 30 min XT plus some pushups.

8:18/150 

Late AM: Run in the sun. Had planned on doing 2 x 4 miles @ MP with 5 min rest in between.  Felt good starting out but around mile 3 of the tempo I started feeling really lousy and got a big gut ache. 

I made it to 4 miles, got a drink and walked for a bit then attempted the rest of the tempo but got feeling queasy and stopped at 5.  Later in the day spent a bunch of time in the bathroom with heavy duty GI problems.  Not sure if I just ate something bad or if I have a touch of stomach flu. Just hope whatever it was it's gone by next week.

Tempo AP/AHR: 7:26/174

PM: The SF running gang had their moonlight run/get-together.  Ran 3 nice&easy miles. Felt a lot better than earlier. Since I ran tonight I'll take tomorrow off.

No run today, but went to gym before lunch and did 25 min XT plus core workout.

Thinking about my goals for SGM I think I've settled on the following:

Primary goal: Get a PR which means anything under 3:11.

Stretch goal: If after a few miles into it I'm feeling like it's one of those days when everything is clicking I may pick it up and take a shot at the sub-3 hour.

Consolation goal:  If everything goes to pot and I crash and burn I should still be at least able to qualify for Boston, which for an older guy like me I think means sub 3:25. 

Looks like latest weather forecasts for SG show a bit of cooling around race time, nothing dramatic but should be pretty nice for most of the race. Lets hope any weather surprises are pleasant ones. 

Went out with Kim around 11am.  Ran down in the bottoms mostly on the river trail. The funnest part of the run was watching Kimi "dance" with the grasshoppers.  Perhaps I should give her the Native American name of "Dances with Grasshoppers".

Still have something weird going on with my gut, some kind of stomach flu or something. I was fine when running slower but after doing a few faster strides I got a feeling a bit queasy with a sour gut. Maybe my NA name can be "Queasy with Sour Gut".

8:42/145

Still having the dang stomach flu issues. Hope it goes away soon, makes me run out of gas after about 5 miles and my HR shoots up. Must be something going around my daughter has had it a little bit and Kim is starting to get it a bit as well. Dang crud!

8:34/150