GOAL: 4:00:00 #1

Gabcast! GOAL: 4:00:00 #1

Not too bad on the tempo...

1:09:51 total, for a 8:44 pace.
I don't feel quite as good as I did pre-transplant, but I'm committed to be ready to hit the 4-hour mark come race day.

Saturday is huge. Let's do it.

No more food excuses...

Your body can run on crap; you just have to train it to do so. Remember that day that we went long after I had eaten pepperoni pizza and slammed 4 beers the night before? It was a great run. It's partly physical, but I believe it is mostly mental.

If you eat good food, then your body can perform even better. But I think you can do just fine on what you've been eating. Don't let your head make excuses for you. MIND OVER MATTER.

Not So Tempo

So the tempo run could have been better. I could make many excuses. For instance, speedwork the day before, or eating a huge grilled (not so done) burger (with two Mooseheads) the night before. But at the end of the day, if you don't have it, you don't have it. I even walked a couple of minutes at the 5 mile mark (What the Crap!!). Historically my long midweek runs always have sucked and have been difficult and then I bounce back for the long run. Let's hope that is the case for 20 this weekend.

8 miles - 1:11:45

(still not terrible considering I walked for 2 minutes)

Speedwork still sucks...

Since I had a wonderful chicken casserole, with salad waiting for me when I got home on Tuesday, I decided that I would get up early Wednesday. The one problem with this was that Ashley informed me that it was my turn to get up with Ben, which meant that I needed to be up earlier than usual. So at 5:30 I arose, stumbled outside into the fog and ran my 4 x 1 mile repeats. My times were okay, but whatever...

1 - 7:29

2 - 7:34

3- 7:39

4 - 7:31

Please note that there was no break between 3 and 4, because I needed to get back in the home and out of the shower before Ben arose from his slumber.

Speed, not so much...

4 x 1 mile @ 7:36-7:44
1) 7:31
2) 7:32
3) 7:41
4) 7:45

Eh...

"get well katie"

15 miles

Well after the previous week's run, I had some very tired legs (as if I was recovering from a race or something), so I decided for forego the planned speedwork and tempo. Instead I went out for two comfortable three mile runs during the week.

Yesterday, I began my 15 at 7:30 (with a shirt on-but I probably did not need one). After six, I ran back into the apartment for a pitstop. Apparently, it's not wise to eat a phillycheese steak the day before a long run. After the pitstop, I ran the next 9 at a faster pace, but surprisingly I felt much better the second half of the run.

Time - 2:14:24 (the watch was stopped while I was in the bathroom)