This weekend I had too many late nights. Our church bought a Dell Laptop on black Friday that I suggested we buy because it was a steal. On Friday night I stayed up till 2am to get it ready for Church on Sunday. Then Saturday I had my relatives come over and they brought their Nintendo Wii over and we stayed up till 1am playing that. I haven't played a gaming console for a while, and we have an XBOX, except I did on Thanksgiving after my run (Madden 2007). After the weekend late nights I slept very good last night and went to bed around 9pm and didn't want to wake-up and run. I'm thinking I'm hitting a point where runnings is not motivating right now, but I don't want to take any time off to lost fitness. The best thing I can do is fight through this feeling and try to stay motivated. I've really worked hard this year and haven't, "that I can think of ", taken more than two days off in a row all year but maybe one time, and this counts part of last year. Anyway, back to the training today. I ran 8.3 miles at an overall 6:34 pace in 54:31 minutes. I did a mini 3 mile tempo (5:52, 6:04, 5:55) which felt good, because I've been lacking running tempo's or speed work since the STG marathon. One thing I've noticed is I can still run when I'm tired, but its not the best way to train, and we all know that.
Lunch: Ran 5.3 miles at an overall 6:14 pace in 33:08 minutes. Mile splits (6:33, 6:18, 6:12, 6:00, 6:12). I went home on my lunch hour and ran around my neighborhood. I wanted to do a little bit faster run than this morning. | 