Easy Sunday

No fast tempo for me today. Legs feel tired, and so do I. Instead of even trying to run fast I spent 47 minutes in foggy and rainy weather, and ran that 6 miler. Week was ~70 miles.

Bagel run

Weather was a joy, and was the run. I did easy 12.5 miler (~7.00/mile) with Tom, Matt and the Beast. Lower abs are really bad now.

Rolling hills, no thunder

Easy morning run. I was pacing S on her 5M tempo. In all 8 miles, and it felt fine.

2*Morning Run and then some Thanksgiving

Today I had a double morning. First, I did an easy tempo (3M 18.01) and some hills (5*80sec'350m) around 7.00 AM. Then had some breakfast, and started to gear up for Turkey Trott Prediction run. That's a 10k without a watch, only with a sense of time. The one who finishes closest to 11.00 AM wins that race. And the one ain't gonna be me...

Turkey Trott 10k 39.48. Again, I was late which has been the case in all runs during this week. Luckily, I saw Jason coming for his warm up (a 15k run...) and so we started together. I was originally hoping for a really easy run, but we had to start a bit faster in order to catch Mark and Joe, and to take care of finishing enough close to 11. After catching and running a couple of k's with M&J I think that we lost our gut feeling and increased the pace again. It was also partly due to listening to Phil. Hah. So we finished at 10.58,57, wayyy of the goal. But Mark was "4th" by missing the 11.00 by only less than 1.5 seconds... In all that was a fun race. Today with nice distance running was all together ~15 miles.

And happy thanksgiving!

Ez Wednesday

If Flotrack.org offers for us Wednesday workout every single Wednesday, my Wednesday seems to follow a pattern as well: Easy morning and easy/moderate afternoon. Afternoon is especially nice since it usually means a run together with a larger group of runners (HCSs). In the morning I ran with S an easy 7 miler and did some strides. Sun was shining...

Damn! My meeting with Forest Administration took longer than expected. Hence, I missed our group run by 2-3 minutes. No worries. Smart as I am, I tried to compensate this by running - of course - to wrong direction which hampered the chances to catch the others. But today was in total 15+ miles. Tomorrow is time to predict.

Fartlek day

Morning: Fartlek 8*2/2min. (on: 5.42-5.18/mile / off: 7.30-7.00/mile) + warm up and cool down = 8+ miles (7.22/mile).

Couple of faster (on-)runs felt really great, but on the contrary two of them felt quite heavy even if I was running them on a moderately flat course. Still farting during & leking made me happy.

Before the Sunrise

Another morning run at 5.00 AM. Fortunately, it was an easy 4 miler. I'll have to pay a visit at the campus, but I'm sure that there is enough time to run in the evening as well in addition to some core/circuit training. All in all, today will be easy in order to able to hit "the limits" on tomorrows fartlek.

Weekly race

This morning I was thinking about doing some faster run, but I wasn't able to make any decisions. Fortunately, there was a 5k at the Striders weekly race which was just suitable for todays goal. I ran that and some extra seconds as well due to not knowing the exact turning point. Hence, I'll take 12-15 seconds off the official time, 16.5x. That equals close to 16.40s in a grinding and hilly course. Faster would of course be much nicer but...

Week 76 miles.

Bagel run

What a nice, crispy morning, and accordingly, what a feeling. Bagel run felt also really nice, which it's partly because we just enjoyed the priviledges of easy pace with Matt. In all, I ran (only) 11.5 miles (7.13/mile). Based on the feeling on yesterday afternoon I expected a slightly different type of Bagel run. Fortunately, I was able to deceive that feeling. That's evil.

It's snowing

Easy 6 miler starting at 5 AM. Hence, I was able to avoid snow, but at the same time I kinda forgot to run some strides after the easy run. Well, there is a plenty of time for them later...

Oh, sweetie came home earlier and we went for a way-too-tired run. 7+ miles. But again I forgot to run those strides...