6/30

Last of the month! I was scheduled for cross today (still planning to bike tonight to a meeting at the church and back), but mowed the lawn and realized I was so sweaty and gross that I'd need a shower anyway, so I ran a couple of (slooow) miles just to pop me up over 139. So 141 for all of June.

2 miles + .5 walking to cool down

6/29

12 last Saturday; started out working for a very easy pace (10/mile); held that for the first six and then picked it up for the second half when I still felt good; kept it under 9:20 and then picked it up the last 2 at 8:46. Ran west of town route again, giving me 33 for the week and 131 for the month to date.

Monday: 8 on TM; LT run with 4 at HMP (8:50). This felt pretty hard; could definitely feel the effects of getting less than 4 hours of sleep last night. 2 to warm up and 2 to cool down; averaging about 9:30/mile; 139 month to date.

6/26

6/23: scheduled cross, biked for an hour with kids and walked for 40 minutes with Neio
6/24: 8 (TM) at 9:30/mile, miserable and dizzy--started antibiotics, walked half-mile to cool down.
6/25: rest day. went to bed early and slept for 13 hours straight
6/26: felt SO MUCH BETTER. Hard to hold it to an easy pace! 5 (TM during thunderstorm) at 9:22/mile, half-mile walk to cool down

6/22

LT run today
2 m warmup (started at 10/mile and worked up to 9:/22)
3 m @ HMP (8:49 m)=26:27
2 m cooldown (ran this too fast)--around 9:05/mile

Overall thoughts--still sick enough that the HMP in the middle felt hard, but sustainable--not as easy as I wish it did. I definitely ran the cooldown part too fast and need to work on that in future, but I think I did a decent job on the warmup.

6/20

12.16 this morning on the roads at 9:54/mile. I'm nursing YET ANOTHER cold so I didn't push super hard, but finished feeling good (I was chugging turmeric milk last night trying to get rid of my sore throat and it definitely helped a lot). Today's run was fun because it was a route I've never run--I got up a couple hours before anyone else and ran out on the back roads to a cherry orchard to meet DH & kids. Beautiful early morning, nice temps, but 97% humidity and I ate my quota of bugs for the month since they were in visible swarms all over the place (when I was showering afterwards I could see tons of gnats going down with the water. Gross!). Used Bear's chia/lime/honey mixture again and I can definitely recommend it (I just filled up one of my belt bottles with it and had some every 4 miles). Pretty much nobody on the roads, since I was way out, so I just ran down the center line most of the time. My family passed me just when I was starting to flag a little around 9 miles and seeing them gave me my second wind and I clocked my last 3 miles about a minute per mile faster than I'd been going wanting to catch up with them. Totally freaked me out though until I recognized them because I couldn't understand why the car wasn't passing me and all these people were yelling! Picked cherries, then headed home for a shower before we went over to Delphi for the Kids' Canal Days (which ended up being postponed since the canal was 3 ft higher than normal, but it was still pretty fun). 

34 for week, 98 for the month. 

6/19

SRD yesterday; scheduled for 3 today but ran 4 (TM). 9:20/mile and then walked a mile to cool down. Still feeling pretty tired and worn out from whatever sickness the kids have been passing around (man oh man what I would give for a single night of sleep from 10 pm to 6 am!!!!)

6/17

Treadmill today; scheduled for 3 but ran 5 and walked another half-mile to cool down. 8 x 400-meter repeats varying between 8:12-8:49/mile, then another cool-down mile at 9:30, then walking.