Running To Beat Mark

No miles today. Started the part time position this afternoon, and accepted a full time teaching position for the fall! 

Three easy, it has been a busy week, good thing  i was not planning on doing much this week.

Every time I taper i get impatient. It happened again today. After running one mile easy i picked up the pace for the last two and ran them in 12:50. This is why i usually don't wear a watch on easy days. The legs felt good today. Weather forecast for Sunday is 50% chance of thunderstorms, and high of 75 with 21 mph winds, sounds perfect.

Marathon is tomorrow. Forecast is still saying storms and 70's at start time. Lets hope they are wrong and its dry and 50's! 

First things first the marathon can humble you. I was so humbled I am not even listing this as a race report. Weather did not cool down and the wind was over twenty mph for the majority of the run. I didnt ever feel good but I was still on pace for the first half 1:35ish, and then truly fell apart. My second half was in 2:26 and I ended up with a 4:01. I am a little disappointed but I am not too disappointed since my wife had a PR! She broke four hours! So i am very proud of her! 

Three miles easy with the track team tonight, they had a good laugh at how hard it was for me and the other coach (he did the half marathon yesterday) to keep up with them. 

5k loop tonight easy, at least it was supposed to be but I wore my watch and that led me to run faster than I should have. The weather has been perfect for running ever since the marathon so it has been hard to rest.

Tonight I also decided my next race is going to be a 10k in June so planning to work on some more speed this next month.

Four miles easy today.

I was hoping to get mile repeats in tonight but with a meeting did not have enough time.  Instead did a fast two mile

 One mile warmup, first mile in 5:50 into a 20mph headwind. On the second mile I was flying downwind and ended up with a 4:51. I thought this had to be too fast and in fact it was short it was only .98 of a mile, still would have been sub 5 if it was a full mile though. Total time was 10:41 so my fastest two mile (1.96mi) in a while. One mile cooldown to get to four miles for the day. 

Half mile warmup then drills. Shorter intervals tonight 30 second 10kpace followed by 30 seconds mile pace. 2 sets of 4 each. Half mile cooldown 

Traveled to South Dakota tonight, so Ill have some different scenery on the run tomorrow. 

3 miles with emaurine this morning. Then did two more. Watched part of a marathon/half this morning, wish i entered much more fun running than watching.

Four miles easy with emaurine tonight.

3 mile morning run. 

Was going to do more this afternoon...

Finally ran again, part being busy, tired, and mostly warmer weather making me want to golf more. My wife emaurine got me going this morning and we ran 2 miles at a decent clip. Hopefully this run starts me training again.

Just another two mile run today. Once again I have my wife to thank for getting me out there. Perfect weather today mid 50's. 

Two miles to the Y tonight for my wife's classes. I did 13 miles on the bike in her cycling class and then she kicked my butt in resistance training.