A Good Week

Last week was a good soild week of running. Although I was out of town for most of the week and confined to the hotels heavily abused treadmill, I made my milage goal for the week without a hitch.

The highlight of he week had to be the 10 miler on Sunday morning. Honestly I don't think I've run 10 miles since my marathon last October. I had to run it on the treadmill because I couldn't mesh with the track schedule and a few inches of fresh snow prevented me from doing it outside. I wasn't really sure I had 10 in me and the treadmill was probably the best place to test that out. As much as a dread running on the mill it is sometimes nice to have that fingertip control over your pace. I pulled off the 10 without a problem... I am now convinced I can do 12 miles this week and a 15 mile run in 2 weeks.If you would have asked me that 4 weeks ago I would have laughed at you.

The 10 miles brought my weekly total to 24 miles. I increased my mileage kind of quickly in the past few weeks I hope that doesn't come back to haunt me! I'm very pleased with last week and I'm hoping I can continue to stay on track.

This week the milage goal is 27 miles. I took Monday off today I ran some hills via the treadmill and I will end the week with a 12 mile long run.

I Hate Flying!

I was having a good week last week, on track for 21 miles. I would have made it if it wasn't for Delta airlines. Based on the sour attitudes and grumpy faces I think air travel adds an enormous amount of stress to about 90% of people. Delay after delay just break a person down. At some point you just admit defeat and go with the flow. So up until Sunday I had 18 miles with a 7 mile run on Saturday. Sunday I was going to get an easy 3 miles in... but it didn't happen.

This week the goal is 24 miles... with a 10 mile run on Sunday. I sat down and figured out the training schedule and it turns out I'm a little behind. So to compensate I'm going to have to push it a little this week. As usual I feel under prepared at this point but I'm confident I'll come around in a few weeks. This weekend will be big - confidence will come with a 10 miler!

I suck!

Last night after a small scuffle with the ice,snow and the snowblower I was too wiped out to run. Just means I have to put in good runs for the rest of the week.

Well today sucked! I ran for 3 miles on th treadmill and it kicked my ass... I hate days like today. Just when you think your sitting pretty good 3 miles about kills you. Oh well tomorrow is another day.