Psalm 91:1 NKJV He who dwells in the secret place

The past couple of days I've been so tired. More tired than I've ever been in my life. The reason is the late nights, Friday night I stayed up till 3:30am fixing a problem at work with our Calendar Server which is a most that its up and running. Then I got up the next morning at 9am and ran 9.7 easy miles. Saturday night I stayed up till 2:30am, because of my online web homework that was due the next day. Yes, homework due on a Sunday. You don't go to class so due dates are a lot different than going to class to turn in work.

Sunday was my scheduled day off from running, and I was busy at home and didn't get a chance to rest. By 9pm that night I was completely drained and wiped out.

Monday: I woke up so tired that I don't know how I ran the first couple of miles. My eyes were tired they didn't want to stay open. The first three miles I averaged a 7:40 pace. I think the music is the only thing that kept me awake But I ran 10.5 miles in a 7:04 pace in 1:14. I didn't really do any marathon pace miles last week so I convinced myself to do four in this run at a 6:40 pace.

Still tired! This afternoon I went to the health club and ran 2.3 miles at a 7:30 pace just to get warmed up to do some strength training. Total mileage 12.8 miles. Days like these make me wonder if I have it in me to run a marathon under 3 hours.

I hope I'll be able to sleep tonight, my work hours is really starting to affect my sleep. Not good for the training.

Speed work today

My times were awful that I shouldn't even be posting them, but I'll do so anyway (need to post the bad days too).

Interval 1: 2:49
rest: 3:27

Interval 2: 2:50
rest: 3:18

Interval 3: 2:55
rest: 3:22

Interval 4: 3:05 (I was running like a water buffalo here)
rest: 3:20 (my rest was almost better than my sprint, how sad is that)

Interval 5: 2:52 (I guess not too bad, for today anyway)
rest: 3:23

Interval 6: 2:47 (I did better on this one that I decided to do another one)
rest: 3:34

Interval 7: 2:52
rest: n/a

Then I ran two cool-down miles at 6:56, and I know I should have went slower on these.

I totaled over 9 miles today, and decided to take a break in the afternoon and not do anything. I do kind of feel sluggish/weak like it's tough to get up and have energy. I think maybe I did too much on Monday with little sleep over the weekend. Where I ran a total of 13 miles and also went to the gym, and did sit-ups and push-ups before bed.

Tonight I never got off till 6pm and had to take my son to daddy and me tumbling class (which I would do even if I was dead tired because I love it), tonight homework. Not much rest for me tonight.

Well today I had a scheduled 7 mile tempo run, but I thought I would take it easy, because of the way I've been feeling the last couple of days. I thought I would run an even pace of 6:30 for 7 miles which is way above my tempo speeds. I was up till 11:30pm last night doing homework and I thought this sounded like a good plan. The weather was wonderful 33 degrees no wind sunny and it was warm.

Approaching the end of the first mile I thought "NO Way!" I'm not going to take the easy route the whole point of this training is to get the best ability out of my body leading to the taper, so I thought I would ease into the Tempo Run. The warm-up mile I did was 7:21 and then I started the tempo portion.

6:12
6:18 (I was messing with my ipod on this mile and it caused me to slow down a bit, I should have just left it alone. But it still shouldn't have stopped me from running this mile better.).
6:08
6:03
5:59
6:06
6:04
6:32 (cool down mile but my mind was wandering thinking of the flying pizza boxes that Scott was having to dodge in Philly. I was also thinking about how his hill repeats went in frigid weather).
6:48 ( better cool down mile but still had a lot on my mind and not paying attention to my pace.. SLOW DOWN.)

I really felt good on this run today and not sluggish, except I could have done a better job on mile 2 of the tempo portion. Now I've done back to back speed days this week which last week I did them between a recovery run. It seems I perform better with back to back speed days. I know that's not the recommended way to do it and its hard on your body. I'm not sure why it works better for me. I don't consider it the right way to train, but I guess if it works keep doing it.

Tomorrow will be an easy recovery run.

Ran 2.3 miles at the Health Club this afternoon at a recovery pace of 7:40. I really like running in the afternoons after a hard morning run, because it feels good to do an easy unfocused run. I lifted just on my upper body today, nothing on the legs. I already torn enough muscle fibers on my tempo run. Makes no sense to strain them more.

12.6 miles

Today I was schedule for a recovery run after two speed days in a row (Yasso 800's and 7 mile tempo run) well I changed that. If there's one part of my training that I'm concerned with it's the marathon pace. I only decided a few weeks ago what pace I wanted to run the Boston marathon in, and I haven't done very many training runs at this pace. I did do a 12 marathon run a couple weeks ago, and a 2-3 mile pace run on Monday (that was a mixed up 10 mile run). The runs went well at the 6:40 pace but still I need more runs at this pace.

So today I ran 8.1 miles at a 6:50 pace in 55:24. Five of the miles I did at marathon pace: 6:43, 6:32, 6:33, 6:35, and 6:39, and it felt easy. That really made me feel better and comfortable where I'm at in the training.

Must of the training programs I see have at least one marathon pace run per week.

Long run went well. I ran 23.6 at a 7:16 pace in 2:51. I was more worried about how cold it was vs. how the downhills were. I almost quit because of the cold, but I figured the miles will drop in elevation fast. Like I said I've ran this course in the past and the downhill don't seem to bother me. The run went very well. I'll post more later.

Here's the course I ran... good one to be ready for Boston

http://www.pocatellomarathon.com/maps.htm

Today I did an easy recovery run 8.4 miles at a 7:29 pace in 1:03 minutes.  Since I did 23 miles yesterday it felt good just to get out there and run just run and not focus.  Next  week on my long run I plan to do 18 miles and 12 of those miles will be at marathon pace to see where I'm at (6:40 pace).  Boston is coming up soon. My goal of being under 3 I believe is in reach..

I can't decide if I want to do one more 20 miler before Boston, I've done 5 so far for the training.  Whatever I decided I feel like I've trained hard and I hope I see result.  We need to think postive and have confidence right?