6 weeks out

Forced rest day today. My glut is all jacked up. More than likely, I will rest tomorrow also. The team isn't meeting tomorrow; coach advised that we sleep in & recover. This fact makes taking the extra day off a little easier. Other than the pain in the butt, there do not seem to be any ill-effects from the workout, which is pretty impressive. Back to the ice massage...

Race Prep 1

4 x 5 miles at mgp-ish

32:40 ( 629, 632, 632, 633, 631) set avg 632
32:05 (621, 632, 621, 631, 617) set avg 625
32:17 (624, 630, 628, 624, 629) set avg 628
32:04 (624, 638, 620, 628, 611) set avg 625

overall avg = 628

This run couldn't have gone much better for me. I definitely could have kept going, but am glad I did not have to. But it was quite a plus to know I had more left in the tank. However, I prolly overdid it a little in the last mile. My upper right glut hurts like heck when I walk...no way I would try to run this afternoon. Ha! Hopefully it is nothing major. Now it is time to try to get recovered ASAP.

23.5-ish miles for the day. 72 miles for the week.

Sat. shakeout III

• Easy 40ish minutes
• Did some quick pick-ups during the latter 3 miles
• Felt pretty good
• Light stretching & rolling afterward
• Should be ready to roll

Tempo tempo

I wasn't too worried about today's run...having just done almost 4 miles at tempo pace after hill work on Tues. My reasoning was that if I can run a good controlled tempo run in the midst of Tuesday's workout, today should be a breeze. We ran 6s on Tues so I figured that pace should work good for today. You know what, I was pretty damn spot on too w/ the paces. No Gremlin. Hit the first mile in 6 min exactly. Maybe I'm the new metronome?.?. Ok, ok, I am kidding.

Anyways, the run went well. I didn't feel super fresh, but I also didn't have the dead ass legs like I did a few weeks ago when we did the mile repeats. Thus, I think I should be in pretty good shape for Sun. Bring it on fool!

Oh, 23:55 for the tempo run and 12 miles for the day.

Wed run (but thinking of Sun)

Easy 10 this morning. My legs did not feel too bad after yesterday's run, obviously a good thing. I will know more when we run tempo tomorrow though. I need to get these bad boys fresh-ish by Sun. Because the rumor around the water cooler is that we are actually going to run 20 miles at MGP on Sun (by way of 4x5 on the first 5 miles of the S Austin Ramble route). I've already begun the 'get your mind right' routine & plan to let it all hang out on Sun. We shall see if I have learned from my mistakes before & during the Austin Marathon run. Should be interesting.

Sisson's Rollers

Tough workout was on tap for today (Sisson's Rollers, no to be confused w/ Julia rollers ;-): a little under 2 miles for the warm-up, 5 miles of 1 min on/off through the hills of west Austin, 1 mile recovery, 3.64212152 miles at tempo-steady pace, and capped off w/ about 2 miles of cool down. I'm tired again after typing all that.

13.4135732 miles for the day

7 weeks out

8 miles. I managed to miss the rain completely. Not much else to report.