I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

After a not-so-great week last week (which would have been an okay week if I hadn't skipped my run yesterday in favor of unpleasant things like laundry, cleaning and work and pleasant things like lunch with the family and a trivia night with chuck and some pals), I had a great run.

2 mile wu, then 6 miles at HMP (or what I realistically think will be HMP) and then 4 miles cd. The best thing about it was that I decided to push myself on the fly, when my pace dropped to about 8:30 pace for the 3rd mile.

The fast portion splits were 8:34, 8:21, 8:14, 8:14, 8;17, 7:57.

It was 60 degrees, but windy. There was a lot of head wind during some of these fast miles. It started raining heavily during mile 10, and I thought briefly of being satisfied with 11 miles, but I added a few blocks onto my loop to get to 12. So ti was good all around.

Well, the week started off so promising. Then a tidal wave of illness swept over almost everyone in the house, burying me. I finally started to feel better by Thursday. I should have run on Thursday, but didn't. So I'll mentally excuse Tuesday and Wednesday, but not Thursday.

My run today was pretty good, though my stomach protested towards the end. However, because my legs were so fresh, it was a faster than normal run. Every mile except the first was under 8:30. I'm too lazy to look up the splits, but I remember the last two miles were 8:19 and 8:02. I was done with the run in 41:59, so what is that? An 8:25 average?

This was a nice run. It was colder than yesterday, but it was still fine. It was just windy, but that's to be expected. My stomach didn't feel great before this run and it didn't feel great after, but it wasn't terrible.