Tamy

My legs felt good today after not running yesterday.  Ran it in 1:26.

I'm putting a link to the route I ran just to see if I can.

http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-states/ca/irvine/237125450290146193

Update:  I did 5 more miles in 48 minutes for a total of 14 miles today.

So far I've done 9 miles today, but I plan to do 5 more.  I'm just waiting at my office until my car work is done.  Then I'll run back to the shop to pick up my car.  Did the first 9 in 1:27.

It's gotten chilly at night so my 6:30am runs require sleeves now.  I'll be sad to put away the tank tops for winter.

1:30 total

Ran a little different route and thought I was going fast.  Then I thought I was farther along than I was so I thought maybe I wasn't really going fast.  My legs started feeling tired so I was a little frustrated.  But I just mapped it, and instead of doing 10 miles, I did 11.76.  Time 1:43.  So that's ok.

Did a track workout today with a mile warm up and mile cool down.  I did mile repeats with a 400m jog in between.  The miles were all under 7:30, ranging between 7:10 and 7:25, and I did 5 of them.

10 miles in 1:30 and it felt good. 

Have had a kink in the interior of the outside side of my calf this week.  Can't quite find the proper stretch or way to massage it.  It's not really painful, just feels tangled up.  Will keep trying to work it out.

By mile 2, I knew this was going to be a hard run, not because 18 miles is long for me but because my legs just felt dead.  I had to will myself to keep going for the last 16 miles, but I did it.  I'm not going to feel too badly about how it didn't feel like a good run.  It's probably just a little fatigue that won't last.  Did the run in 2:46.

Even after taking yesterday off, my legs still felt a little sluggish today, though not nearly as sluggish as they were on Saturday's long run.  Ran a usual route in 1:33.

Same usual 10 mile loop.  It was cool and misty.  Glad I didn't let the rain keep me in bed.  1:31.

Ran my loop in the rain again.  It was coming down pretty hard when I woke up, but I didn't let it stop me.  Yea!  Ran it in 1:32.

Ran the loop instead of doing the usual Wed. speed work because I didn't want to slip on the track, so I'll do speed work tomorrow.

I did a mile and a half warm up and cool down, but the workout was 6 x 800 at about 10 seconds faster than 5K pace with 200m jogs in between.  I did all but the first one right at 3:30/3:31 and was really feeling it on the last couple.  Even got that "if I do this much longer I will spew" feeling on the last one. 

Feel a little bad about not getting in more miles today, but my knees are hurting so the relative easy day has its benefits, I think.

Did the usual route in the usual time but I can tell my legs are tired.  I have been sitting at just under 70 miles/ week for a couple weeks now, and I just don't think I'm going to go over 70.  At least not in this training cycle.  I'll try to do 20 miles tomorrow.  Then I'll just have 2 more upper 60-mile weeks before easing off a bit before the marathon.  I'm hoping that keeping going while fatigued for just a couple weeks won't hurt me but will just make it feel really nice when I ease up.

I meant to do 20 miles today but I didn't map it very accurately before I ran it (no GPS), and I just mapped it carefully and found it to be only 19 miles.  Bummer.  But on the bright side, this 19 felt much better than the 18 I did last weekend.  I didn't feel labored until the last few miles.  Did the run in 2:53.  That is 9.105 minutes per mile; not sure how many seconds .105 minutes is, but I know it's not many.  So that was a decent pace.  :)

Ha, ha.  I only did 2 miles today.  I just had to take care of my real life a little bit and skip the running.  Looking forward to my 10 miles before work tomorrow.

Did 10 very slow miles this morning.  1:35 Shins are sore these days.

1:35 for my 10 miles.  Slow again.  I just don't feel like running faster this week.  I've got speed work tomorrow; that should be fun.

Somehow I forgot today was speed day and drove to the wrong place.  So I just did a routine 10 miler.  Still feeling sluggish though. 

And my left calf has been tight and feeling twisted for over a week now.  Today after stopping at a traffic light around mile 9, and when I started up again, the calf kind of spasmed as if it were going to pull but didn't.  I just kept going, but I really don't think it should be doing that on a routine run.  May take tomorrow off despite already taking Sunday off this week.  I do not want to get hurt 3 weeks before my qualifying event.

Did a track workout today.  Was shooting for sub 7:30 mile repeats.  Did the first one slow cuz I wasn't very warmed up for the cool morning: 7:38.  Then I did a 6:50, a 7:08, a 7:15, and a 7:12.  I did a 400 jog between each one and about a mile warm up and cool down.  Had thought about resting today but didn't just because I'm so in the habit of getting up and running.  May rest tomorrow or may not.  Definitely doing a long run on Saturday.

After not running this morning and sleeping a much-needed extra hour and a half, I couldn't resist running this evening.  I went for a 7.5 miler just after sunset.  I did it in about 68 minutes which is faster than I've run all week.  My legs are still a little tender.  I can tell they're beat.  It will feel good to get this marathon over with in a few weeks.  Still planning to get in 22 miles tomorrow, but I may make that my last really long run  until race day.  I'll keep my weekly mileage over 60 until the marathon, but I may decide I benefit more from spreading miles out more instead of beating myself up with a 20+ run on Saturdays.

This was supposed to be 22 miles, but it's a little short.  That doesn't bother me.  I finished feeling like I could probably do 8 or 10 more miles at that pace.  Time was 3:23.  Had fun on most of this run.  Ran on some uncharted territory in north Irvine.  Here's a map of it: http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-states/ca/irvine/378125641173410370

Felt pretty good after yesterday's 22 miler.  I slipped on a curb though and kind of twisted my ankle--the same one attached to the cranky calf and achilles that have been bothering me.  So the whole leg is kind of gimpy now.  Nothing serious, just annoying.

1:35 Enjoyed the sunrise.

1:34  It was our first cold morning.  I didn't realize it was in the upper 40s, so I was only wearing shorts and short sleeves.  Hands froze.

Cold again, but I wore a long-sleeved shirt which made me more comfortable, go figure.  I'm being a bit of a cold wimp because this is my first winter as a morning runner.  Morning runs in the summer were great because it was the best temperature of the day, but now it's the worst.  And all my winter clothes are in storage since I haven't had any time to go get them out yet.  Anyway, 10 miles in 1:34.

1:32 

Awe, the final long run before the marathon.  So glad it's over.  Did 24 in 3:44, coincidentally, the time I'd like to run the marathon in.  Surely, I can squeeze 2.2 more miles in to that time to qualify for Boston.  This is also my first 70+ mile week ever.  Overall, I'm feeling pretty darn good.