August 27-September2

Wow, what a week! I started out running in the mornings and ended the week running in the evening. I ran on Wednesday in the evening and got caught in a rain storm. It was miserable to say the least and it actually wore me out. I started the run around 6:15ish thinking it would probably pass and I ran for about 30 minutes and turned around to come back and the bottom fell out. That is probably an understatement. I remember at one point in my run stopping at a bus stop to take cover to get a little bit of relief. That lasted for maybe a minute and I got back out to finish up the run. The rain definitely cooled me down, but at the same time, it weighed me down; therefore, making the run a lot harder. I still had a very nice negative split and was too tired to run on Thursday. I decided to do a 10 miler on Saturday. I originally wasn't planning to run that far due to my race on Monday. I had thought about changing up my routine and running my 1.5 route on Friday, but I was too tired.

Here are this week's results:

Monday: 7.1 mi/1:00:18/L1-30:15/L2-30:03/AVG. HR.=150/MAX. HR=171
Tuessday: 10.5 mi/1:30:55/L1=44:52/L2=46:03/AVG. HR.=150/MAX. HR=??
Wednesday: 7.1 mi/59:34/L1-29:46/L2-29:48/AVG. HR.=155/MAX. HR=172
Thursday: Unable to Run
Friday: REST
Saturday: 10 mi/1:25:09/L1-42:35/L2-42:34/AVG. HR.=152/MAX. HR.=167
Sunday: REST
Mileage=34.7

I decided to skip my Sunday run, mostly because of the US10k Classice race on Monday. I figured I could use the rest seeing that I will be running a very hilly course. I am planning to take it easy on this course due to the many hills. I plan to continue my marathon training on Tuesday, therefore, I don't want to go at it too hard.

Hope everyone has a nice Labor Day and KEEP RUNNING!!
LJ