Earlgasm!

I made it out for 10 miles today before hurricane Earl roars into town. Well, the problem is that all the schools were letting out, so I had to drop off kids at 9, run, pickup kids at 12. The ten miles took one hour and 28 minutes. I had a 15 miler planned, but that wasn't gonna happen in that time frame. And the humidity was solid 100% - so 10 was fine.

I took yesterday off and swam 1600 on Wednesday. Very humid all weak - I'm hoping for a monster week next week: Monday - 5 miles with 20 minute tempo, 3EZ Tuesday, Wednesday - 7 with a 5 mile race pace (7:30 or so), swim Thursday and a 14-15 miler on Friday. I may not be able to push it to 15 since my previous long was 12 - but we'll see how I'm feeling.

Shortened Run

I forgot my socks. I went out anyway and cut short my 'long' run - to avoid getting bad blisters. I ended up going for 4.625 miles. I felt pretty good, minus the feet rubbing on the shoes - although even that wasn't horrible. My stomach is upset now - but I'm not certain it's run related. I plan on doing my brick workout Friday (4.5 biking and ~2 miles running), perhaps with a run/swim at lunch. I'm at 16 miles form the week - and should be over 22 again (possible ~28).

Hot and Long

Doesn't sound like a run, does it? But that's what I did today. 6.12 miles in the hot humid sun. I was lucky enough to run into a slower runner, so I did the first half in 29:30 (9:30 pace!) and then did the remaining half in 27 minutes (~8:40 pace - felt much harder than that). That's a tough run in that humidity. Brings my weekly total up to 15.5 miles - with one day today.