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August 25, 2005
Did Mother Nature Mess Up?
NOT that I am complaining about the weather by any means, but, is Mother Nature confused? It is August and right now the weather is absolutely gorgeous for summer. The weatherman commented this morning that this is the lowest humidity we have had all summer. The highs are a little bit below average, but really, we deserve this after the past seven weeks or so of high temperatures and ungodly humidity. This is the kind of weather that I live for. Ideal weather would be a little bit cooler, but I would take it like this every day if I had to, someone might have to twist my arm a little, but only a little to take it.
Doing a workout in these conditions is so much easier than trying to do it in the weather that we have been having. Doing the workouts in those conditions only serves to make one tougher. Anyhow, tonight was another hill night. Only two more weeks of hills!!! Of course, next week we add a hill to make it tougher. I can only be happy with how the hills went tonight. They did feel tougher than last week, but my quads are still not back to being "right" and that spot on the back of my calf is still a little tender. L is one tough cookie on the hills and she really pushed me up the hills. I did my four about ten seconds faster than I did them last week, so I really shouldn't complain about them at all. After all, last week was the fastest I've ever done four of them without cheating and I did them a little bit faster tonight. I did the longer version of the warm-down, the one that does not involve going through the woods but does have the sixth hill repeat in it, for a total of about ten miles for the night.
Thank you Alison for giving me some more confidence in myself. I do know that my PR days are not behind me, but sometimes I get so discouraged when I have a bunch of really bad runs in a row like I did earlier this week. I'd kind of like to attack some of my PRs this fall and when the workouts are not even close to what my adjusted goals for the workout are it gets to me. I decided today that I will definitely be running the PDR in three weeks. I'd like to at least challenge my half PR there. It is one of my strongest PRs, but it is one that I've consistently come close to. They've changed the course this year to make it even faster, it was already blazing fast to begin with, so it's going to be FAST. I've had a lot of success at this race in the past, so hopefully the trend continues. I'm not sure if I'd highly recommend it this year, it has changed management, but if you're looking for a fast half-marathon, this is it. In order to do what I want there, I think that I need at least one or two weeks over 13 miles on the weekend. The base that I built up over the spring should get me through, the year I PR'd that's what I did.
It doesn't look like I'm going to be heart rate monitor testing tomorrow. This is a good thing. My legs want a day off from running. There might be a little light cross-training tomorrow, but the rest is much needed. No pain, no gain...whatever. Pain is not good and I should've listened to it when it made itself present. Sometime tomorrow I should be meeting Audrey on her way back to school. Unlike Beth, I'm in the middle of the East Coast so I can meet the DC or Boston bloggers when they are going places if they can stop.
Posted by Blondie at August 25, 2005 08:04 PM
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PDR sounds awesome!
Posted by: Nanda at August 26, 2005 10:54 AM