Monday: 9 miles. 16 path long. I skipped the speed workout part of this run for a few reasons: 1) My legs were still trashed from the previous Saturday's 22 mile run, 2) I am starting to really hate speed workouts, and 3) I'm not seeing much speed improvement after 12 weeks of my current plan.
Tuesday: 14 miles. 16 path long and short circle. I had to do the One Sock Run of Shame after mile 8, embarrassing had it not been 5 AM and no one around. Other than that the run went well over all and was slightly faster than expected. Getting up so early is really starting to wear me down, however, and I am excited that I only have one real Tuesday long run left in my plan.
Wednesday: 4 miles AM, 6 miles PM. 2 mile neighborhood loop short twice for 4, 16 path short for 6. Morning felt like hell. I didn't want to get out of bed. I woke up at 2 AM and felt like I didn't get any sleep between then and 5 AM, although I did. I also stretched funny and pulled something in the back of my right knee but after 2 miles it was fine. Afternoon was fast but hot. Since I always run in the morning I don't get enough exposure to running in the sun. Sweat everywhere. I have decided to stop doing the speed workouts and just focus on miles. I will run fast when I feel like it and run slow when I feel like it.
Thursday: 5 miles. 16 path short. I felt really good the whole way and although it was supposed to be a recovery run I ended up pushing it. at mile 2.5 I ran past a woman dressed all in black running the other direction on the path. My turn-around was almost immediately after that and I should have passed her but she was nowhere to be seen. I've seen her before and I think she gets freaked out running alone so early in the morning while it is still dark and probably veered off to avoid the Creepy Rapist that just ran past her.
Friday: 5 miles. neighborhood loop medium. I felt bad the whole time. The plan I am following had an 8k to 15k race for the day and I did the bare minimum distance and didn't race it. My calves were very tight and even the slightest hill made me want to walk. I blame the six beers the night before. This was not a good day.
Saturday: 18 miles. 15 mile loop with 16 short circle. I only started to feel like it was a good run after mile 7 and I had to walk up a couple of hills. It is demoralizing whenever I have to stop and walk up a hill especially on my long runs. I decided to use my handheld water bottle which became annoying, and I felt off balanced after mile 12. My watch also shit out 10.7 miles in and after a restart it wouldn't continue from the same run but I didn't realize this until what I guessed was a half mile later. Because of this I am not sure if I did 18 but it was probably pretty close. We had our yearly summer party in the evening which went well.
Overall, not the greatest week. It was my first full week running with the Saucony Kinvara 3's. After receiving them as a gift I originally dismissed them because I thought their narrow toe-box was causing my feet to go numb. After having to retire my last pair of shoes, Asics Hyperspeed 5's, after about 1,100 miles I decided to be frugal and try shoes I already had instead of buying something new. It turns out the numbness was mainly due to tying the shoe strings too tight. I still have some tweaking to do as I still had issues on the long run on Saturday. I also bought a new pair of running shorts and found out the hard way it causes chafing issues when running too long. All Saturday afternoon I was walking like I had just spent all day on horseback.
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