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December 18, 2006
typical holiday weekend
This past weekend was a very typical weekend for me during the holidays. It kind of went like this:
1. Eat
2. Sleep
3. Run
4. Shop
There was also a hair cut and color thrown in there, but that was pretty much it. As far as running goes, I had a short and easy 5 miler on Friday morning (I think i wrote about that last week), an 8 miler that was supposed to be at a good effort on Saturday morning, and 12 miles Sunday morning. I cannot believe how bad I felt on Saturday, and consequently, how good I felt on Sunday! I do not think my run on Saturday was any faster than 9:00 pace, and it felt like a death march. But Sunday I was flying through all 12 miles! I felt great. Which is nice because my long runs have been decidedly short for the last 6 months. Which I think is okay since I haven't done much racing over a 10k.
Speaking of which, this brings me to an interesting problem. We have very few half marathons in Colorado at which I could conceivably PR. The one where I got my current PR has been turned into a 15 mile race (at least that's what it was in 2006), and there really aren't many other good courses. So do I travel to one next year? I think I'd like to as long as it wouldn't bankrupt me. B. wants me to come for the Brooklyn half, and I'd really like to, although it may be a bad time to travel from a money perspective. I'd love to do something in New England in 2007 but once again that is not a cheap endeavor. And a bunch of people from my team are going to Austin in February but I have a wedding in Seattle that weekend. So I am sure it'll work itself out, but I am all fired up to run a half and I want to run a fast one.
That is about all right now. I overslept today so I will be running 6 miles or so after work, just a nice easy recovery run. As far as the next two weeks go, I'm just going to try to run as much as I can while not irritating my family members over the holidays!
Posted by barb at December 18, 2006 11:22 AM