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April 29, 2005
Sleepy
All I want to do is take a nap…I hate doing my long runs on a weekday, because it’s so hard to spend the rest of the day sitting in an office. Really my run was long-ish, not long (14 miles), but I would still much rather be napping than typing. I had to do it today because my company’s board meeting is this weekend, and tomorrow I have to be there at 7:30 am. I can handle getting up at 5 to run 8 miles (which is my plan), but getting up at 4 to run 14 just wasn’t happening. C. and I often meet on Fridays to run 10 anyway, so it was easy to just start a little earlier and then meet her. I had a good run; I’ve gotten to where 14 doesn’t feel long anymore, which is encouraging, since marathon training kicks off in a month (how the h**l is June only a month away?!).
Yesterday was an easy day—I only ran 4 in the morning, and went to the gym in the evening for 40 minutes on the bike and lifting. I wanted run farther, but I need to be careful of my mileage. I totaled up my miles at the end of last week and discovered I’d run 62 without realizing it. I’d planned to run 52, but a few extra miles here, a few extra there…62 didn’t feel like a lot—in fact I still felt like I was holding back—but it’s where I want to be a few weeks from now to start training. I can’t jump up that quickly, or I won’t ever make it to training. So I exercised self control this morning and turned around after 2 miles.
Track on Wednesday was kind of weird. Our “coach” (a volunteer who picks out the workouts each week) wanted to do something in honor of Penn Relays. He had us partner up, and we ran a fake DMR and 4x4. But then that was it. Every winter we do Christmas Relays, and we wind up running a gazillion quarters, so I thought that this would be an actual workout too. If I’d realized I’d only be getting in 1 ¾ miles of speed (I did the 1200 and the 800 in the DMR, and then 2 400s), I would have just done a workout on my own. I did a few 800s after because I didn’t feel like I’d gotten a workout in at all, but it still didn’t feel like a consistent, solid workout. In some ways it was good, though—since the distances were shorter, I ran faster than I usually do—84 second quarters in the 1200 and 800, and 80 for the 400s. I did my extra 800s in 3:07. And since I was doing my long run a day earlier than normal, it’s just as well that I didn’t kill myself.
Posted by jessie at April 29, 2005 01:44 PM