July 16-July 22

Well, another week in the books! A pretty good week! I only missed one run this week. I am pretty proud of myself. That being said, I actually slowed down a great bit and relaxed and enjoyed my runs as well. I did a foolish thing this week. On Wednesday, I decided to run around 2ish when the temperatures were around the mid 80's and that was a big big mistake! I suffered greatly and I feel strongly that this caused me not to be able to run on Thursday. Therefore, missing my only run of the week.

Here are this weeks results:

Monday: 7 mi/59:53/L1-29:55/L2-29:58/AVG.HR=151/MAX.HR=173
Tuesday: 10.3 mi/1:30:11/L1-45:28/L2-44:43/AVG.HR=147/MAX.HR=164
Wednesday: 7.1 mi/1:09:53/L1-29:29/L2-40:23/AVG.HR=145/MAX.HR=171
Thursday: Unable to Run
Friday: REST
Saturday: 12.4 mi/2:00:47/AVG. HR=145/MAX.HR=169* *Ran with Allen*
Sunday: Unable to Run
MIleage=36.8

Well, as you can see, I had a much better week of running than last week. I only missed one day of running, really two. I normally leave Sunday's open as to how I feel. I hate that I missed my 1 hour 30 minute run on Thursday. Oh well, that's the way it goes sometimes. I definitely slowed down this week and I am so proud of that fact. This weeks' runs were much more comfortable and my heart rate deccreased signficantly. As you can see, most of my splits were good this week with the exception of Wednesday and that was mostly due to running in the heat of the day(that will not happen again). As you can see from my run on Saturday, I ran 12.4 miles in 2 hours whereas last week I ran for 2 hours and 7 minutes and ran 14.1 miles, nearly a 2 mile difference. Allen and I ran probably 11 miles together and I ran the last few miles solo.

This week will be a week of running bright and early(5:30 a.m.). It will be interesting to see how different my times and mileage will be due to the cool temperatures that come with running early.

Hope everyone has had a GREAT week of running!

KEEP RUNNING!!
LJ