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April 11, 2005
Naps Are the Root of All Evil
OK, maybe not, but I'm suffering. I really have not been sleeping well for a few weeks now. Not even over the weekend when I did not have anything really hanging over my head. I woke up around 2:30 this morning and couldn't really get back to sleep. There was some intermittent dozing, but no real sleep. This meant that I was very much awake for my run at 5:00. It also meant that by 1:00 this afternoon I was really dragging.
Because I was more awake than usual this morning, my 4 mile run was a little bit faster than usual. There was a pretty strong breeze that I was hoping would go away before tonight's workout. It seemed darker than it has been, it could have been cloudy or a new moon.
Due to my really poor sleep, I came home from work and absolutely crashed this afternoon. I slept for a solid hour and could have stayed asleep even longer. When I woke up I was super groggy. Now I'm paying for it because I don't feel as tired as I should.
Tonight's workout was supposed to be a 4 mile tempo run. We had a few options on where to do it. None of us really wanted to do it on the track since the track is such a wind tunnel. We were not really sure how long the course that we decided to do was, but J told us to stop at the first speed bump when we got into the park. He was pretty sure that was the 4 mile mark. I was running with J and T, around two miles they started to pull away and the pace was getting faster and faster. I was about 15 meters behind them for the last part of the run. We got to the designated speed bump at exactly 20 minutes, so the stopping point was way too early. There was no way on earth that we were running 5 minute pace for 4 miles, I don't think that I could run a single mile in 5:00. We were pretty sure that we were running under 6:00 pace and think that what we did was about 3 1/3 miles. In all, I am happy with this workout, but disappointed that the course was not accurate.
Tomorrow I must decide what race I'm doing this weekend. If M is still being wishy washy about the half marathon, I'm going to do the 20K. The half is two hours away and I don't really want to go down by myself. I don't really enjoy driving and that is a long way to go alone. The 20K is closer to home, but I'll have to race harder in it. I did take next Monday off from work because I know that I'll be beat from whatever I do on Sunday. I completely forgot that it is Boston as well. We don't have cable, so I won't be able to watch it here on OLN. I may go to a friend's house to watch it or just track it online.
Posted by Blondie at April 11, 2005 08:26 PM