After the disastrous 20 miler on Saturday I was actually planning on joining a group for an 11 miler trail run but my body had other idea, I was actually quite just a slight pain on my left shin but my body needed sleep because for the first time in a long time I slept through my alarm and woke up at 7:35am instead of the 6:30am I was planning and that was too late for me to get ready and get there on time, so rolled over and slept till 9:30 getting up to do Cathe STS back and Triceps Meso 1 Week 1.


With back to school being on Monday, I spend the rest of the day with my son shopping for back to school by the time we got home I could barely keep my eyes open, got on the couch and took an hour nap. Got up made dinner and in bed by 9pm, I guess I really needed the rest.

I have 2 more Xterra race left for the series and fitting them in is complication the marathon training I have a 22 miler still on my schedule before taper and I am not sure how I am going to get it in, need to juggle the schedule.

Didn't make it out of bed this morning, was tired since I woke up around 1:30am from a bad dream and couldn't get back to sleep, so made a point to leave work early so as to get my workout in, not really the best plan since I spend all day going up and down 4 floor on the steps no people elevator in most chemical manufacturing plants.

After work, ate a cherry pie larabar,  change and got on the treadmill to do my speed workout.
Plan 1 mile WU, 10x200 in 47secs with 400 recovery, 1+ miles cool down to make it to 6 miles

didn't make the 47 secs that is a stretch goal for me anyway but I'll keep working at it, best pace was 52:33 with the worst at 53:73.

After the run, did my strength workout 40 mins of Cathe STS Meso 1 Week 3 Legs, I know I am going to be sore tomorrow this workout hit my legs in some less use places.

The Fool's 50K is fast approaching, I one 24 min long run left before I start tapering, got to see if I can get someone out on the trail with me this week, I'll hate to have to do my 1 mile hill loop.

Hill Training

Today goal was learning to walk fast up a hill and then get back to running immediately when off the hill. I do this on the treadmill because it works better for me, so adjusting the incline from 5% - 12% walking as fast as I can then 5x1 mins sprints @ 10k pace with 30sec recovery are sprinkled in, at about the 40 mins mark finish with 5x2 mins sprints @ 10k pace with 30secs recovery, then finish walking at 5% to get to 4 miles.
After the walk did the second half of Cathe STS Chest, Shoulders & Biceps.

The one thing I am beginning to wonder about is how expensive running higher miles are going to get, by my calculation my shoe that is only less than 3 months have over 200 miles already so I will need to start rotating with another pair soon, so by the time my marathon rolls around in May, I will be on my third pair of shoe. Looks like having  a shoe sponsor will be great but I do notice that my form is probably getting better because upon inspecting my shoe today after 200 miles there is no wear at the bottom, normally I have a wear at the outer edge of both shoe by the second week.

Started Cathe STS this week and I have to say my muscles are loving the return to weigh lifting, the biggest surprise though was how much DOMS I got from the leg workout, I discovered muscles I never knew I had.