My running week 8/14-20

I don't know what to call this week. Do I call it a bonus week? Do I call it a week where I came back from an illness to start doing workouts? Do I call it the last week before the PAIN arrives? Do I call it the last week before it's go time? I'm not sure. Does it matter? Are these questions meant to be answered? I'm not sure? This week marked the beginning of returning to work, although it's not full time teaching yet. One thing that I'm glad is that I've gotten a more definite plan for what I'll be doing in work and when it will happen, so I have some directions. Before I begin the training log recap I will have to start with things I don't like: the weather.

Let me tell you something if it's rather cool outside don't taunt me with it getting rather warm in the afternoon. And if there is a nice gentle breeze don't taunt me with humidity. I want it to be one way and not a hodge podge of different things. Also with the weather being nice it's a cruel reminder that it's not going to last because there will be another heat wave, and I'll start cursing it for being so hot. So weather if you want to get cool, I'm fine with that, but stay cool. Once the temperatures start dropping I don't want it to suddenly climb back up for a couple days. That's not cool, that's just mean.

Sunday: 10 miles. Felt better. Was somewhat rainy. Did some strides after the run. Those felt good.

Monday: 9 miles. It was a bit chilly when I went out to run, so I kept my shirt on. But it was humid. Not cool weather.

Tuesday: 13.07 miles. I did a fartlek workout here. It was 2 minutes on with 2 minutes off. I did 10 of them. Ran more than what I wanted to mileage wise. But other than that it felt pretty good doing some speed. I felt really relaxed on them. I guess you have to factor in the fact that the recovery time was pretty lengthy. There was this guy I passed on the third interval, he ended up racing me at the end of the interval. I was not pleased he did this. If I was fit I would have put the hammer down on this guy, but I kind realized that this was not the time or the place to do it.

Wednesday: 11 miles. I would say this was a run under control. A run the day after a workout so I kept it easy. Did 4 strides. Saw someone getting arrested while I was doing strides. This running in the early morning is going to be interesting.

Thursday: 7 miles. I was thinking...this might be my last workout of the year. There is no way I could do them early in the morning, unless I wanted to get arrested. So this might be the swan song of 2011. What I noticed on this track is that it's much tougher than others I have been on. It's still ruberized but it's a tough track. And doing 20 x 300 it really beat up my quads up. I'm still feeling it in my quads on Saturday. I did 100 meter walk in between each one. Not up to fitness to do 100 meter jog. I would say that I averaged 54 seconds (72 quarters) for this workout. Is that good? I'm not sure.

Friday: 9 miles. I woke up tired. I felt tired for the first mile. Got into it after that, but I wanted to treat this as a true recovery run. No strides. Quads a bit beat up. Must embrace pain.

Saturday: 11 miles. Well I wasn't to enthusiastic about running this early, but did it. Not that bad out. Not that bad of a run. Felt sore still but nothing that would cause concern. 4 strides not to bad.

Total mileage: 70.7

My running week 8/7-13

In a way to be like other running blogs here will be a rundown of boring stuff that really doesn't truly matter to most people, but in a way is documented proof that when it comes to running I am that much better than most. If you want to read about scientific junk, mileage appropriateness, or stuff of that nature than this isn't it.

But before we go into that I'm going to install one thing in this post every week called things I don't like. Today it's the NFL Network and more specifically Comcast. I decided to splurge a bit and order the NFL Network for my cable. I figure why not spend about 10 dollars more a month for that and some other channels. I figure the easiest way to do it would be over the Internet. I go to comcast to order it and find that whenever I click on the NFL Network link, that they advertise, I find that I can't order it in my area. Oh really? Then when I navigated the site a bit I was able to try and order it but found out that I am not the primary account holder, which isn't true since I pay the bill. That means now I'm going to have to call Comcast to order the extra sports programming package BUT MY GOAL WAS TO LIMIT HUMAN CONTACT.

Sunday: Ran 12 miles. This day marked when my parents checked out my lungs to see how it looked when I breathed. My dad took a stethoscope and immediately went OH THIS IS NOT GOOD. NOT GOOD AT ALL. Apparently there was massive amounts of fluid in my lung. I remember this run for the amount of sweat I accumulated.

Monday: Ran 8 miles. Was able to get a car and ran at McMullen. At 4 miles I ran into Thomas, Michelle, and Carolyn. I RAN WITH PEOPLE!

Tuesday: Ran 7 miles. On the Shamrock 4 mile course. It went ok. Although at the end I was hurting stomach wise and sprinted in the house to the bathroom!

Wednesday: Ran 7.5 miles. Last day in Charlotte. It was surprisingly without humidity.

Thursday: Ran 8 miles. First run back in DC. Felt nice and cool.

Friday: Ran 8 miles. Uh nothing really comes to my mind about this run.

Saturday: Ran 10 miles. A surprisingly lack of people out on the trails today. I saw a family of deer with antlers on the trail. I really was wondering what I was going to do if they charged me. Can't run into the creek. Can't run into the trees. I was puzzled. But they didn't charge me.

Total 60.5 miles or so