600+ miles in one day

Yesterday I found myself behind the wheel for 11 hours driving up to Michigan. The original plan was to drive up for a construction meeting (about 3 hours one way), but I had to go from there, halfway across the state to Lansing to drop off drawings for review(an additional 2.5 hours), then drive back.

Needless to say my legs needed some stretching. This mornings run helped a lot too, but I could tell they were just a bit tired.

training: week 2 complete

A decent week overall. Got in 3 days during the week (missed one day). Not great runs, but got through them. Today's 6 miler wasn't bad, but I felt tired before it even started. On top of that I ran with no breakfast.

More building of mileage next week and capping it with a 7 miler.

back on tempo

After a little bit better night's sleep (and a little inspiration from reading some of the new Runner's World that came in the mail) I was anxious to get out for a run. To make it more interesting, there was fog everywhere. I always liked running in fog, it's so eerie - reminds me of some Stephen King novel...

Anyway, head out for a tempo run this morning to pick up where I left off. The last time I ran a tempo run was around the same time I ran my last 400m repeat, so it's all new to me. Fortunately, it was only a 30 minute tempo run, so it wasn't going to be painful. I started out easy then peaked around 7:45 - 8:00/mile pace. Felt pretty good actually.

Tomorrow, another 3 miles - nothing fancy.

off tempo

For the past two nights, I have not slept well. This morning I could not wake up, so did not get out for my tempo run. I can't even use the weather as an excuse (Though it had thundered, lightning and rained earlier this morning and is doing so currently - but it wasn't at the time I would normally run). So I either push it off to tomorrow, or try to get it in this evening. I leaning towards dealing with it another day... mood is not good, but for reasons other than non-running. I won't get into it (not that anyone reads this blog anyway), but suffice to say it's nothing I should be aggravated about, but I can't seem to help it.

fun with recycling

Yesterday was so beautiful out and it was impossible to stay indoors, so Lillian and I decided to play outside. The swing has become a little passe, so we got creative and dug out a box from the recycling pile and created a little playhouse. I think the look on her face says it all... we had a lot of fun. We even added color using some of her sidewalk chalk. She's quite the interior decorator!

This morning's run went well. Looking forward to my tempo run tomorrow...