What ever it takes!

Stupid Daylight savings, I'm tempted to start running in the evenings but life is so much more predictable at 4:30 in the morning,  I pretty much know nothing else is going on at that time.

Did my normal 12 mile progressive run on the hotel treadmill, at least the hotel gym lets me control the thermostat so I can make it nice and cold in there.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace		Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:36	6:36		138	172
2	13:11	6:35		136	139
3	19:41	6:30		143	148
4	26:08	6:27		148	153
5	32:30	6:22		153	156
6	38:48	6:18		155	157
7	45:02	6:14		157	161
8	51:12	6:10		159	162
9	57:18	6:06		160	162
10	1:03:26	6:08		151	160
11	1:09:26	6:00		161	163
12	1:15:15	5:49		165	167
Total	1:15:16	6:16		152	167

Seeing that I'm down here in Louisiana the locals told me to beware of Crocs in nearby rivers and ponds.  Good advice! 

Sasha, Allie are you OK??

Pretty big workout today,  decided to do 6 mile warm up and then 4 X 1 mile repeats with 1/2 mile jog in between.  On my second one I decided I better do my fastest repeat on #3 cause I could tell I'd be dead by 4.  Goal was to progressivly work up and run it in 5:00 flat. but 0.5 miles into it I found out the hotel treadmill only went to 12 MPH making it impossible to get a 5:00.  O'well.  workout kicked my butt, but I feel great for doing it now.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace		Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:38	6:38		151	195
2	13:13	6:35		163	210
3	19:44	6:31		143	146
4	26:08	6:24		145	150
5	32:30	6:22		147	151
6	38:48	6:18		150	153
7	44:07	5:19		157	167
7.5	47:48	7:22		151	167
8.5	53:05	5:17		165	172
9	56:50	7:30		153	171
10	1:01:57	5:07		170	176
10.5	1:05:54	7:53		155	175
11.5	1:11:11	5:17		168	174
12	1:15:03	7:36		155	173
Total	1:15:08	6:14		155	176

 I updated my picture back to a more current "skinny" picture.  I noticed that since I had put my fat picture on I started dropping viewers like flies.  Don't blame you, it was a terrible picture.  I wouldn't want to look at it if I didn't have to either.

I've really been pounding myself pretty hard the last week or so, and this morning after yesterdays 1 mile repeats I was feeling it, my knee hurts, my hip hurts, and I feel like I'm coming down with a slight cold.  So this morning I really just wanted to take it easy.  I knew that I wouldn't take it easy on the treadmill, so I got out and ran the route I did last Saturday.  St. Charles Ave is really well lit since the Trolly goes down that road, and there were actually a lot of runners out, so I felt totally safe. When I got to Autobahn park it looked very dark but I saw quite a few runners in there, so I did one loop around the park.

Ran back, had to run past the hotel .35 miles to get my even 12 in for the day.  Pretty nice run.  Perfect temperatures, no croc sightings.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace
1	7:31	7:31
2	14:41	7:10
3	22:04	7:23
4	29:19	7:15
5	36:45	7:26
6	44:30	7:45
7	51:59	7:29
8	59:14	7:15
9	1:06:35	7:21
10	1:13:58	7:23
11	1:21:25	7:27
12	1:28:56	7:31
Total	1:28:56	7:23

Oh, I wanted to mention too that I downloaded Ryan Hall's "Running with Joy" book on my iPad yesterday.  Pretty interesting, not the greatest book in the world, if we could somehow convince him to join FRB we wouldn't need to buy the book :).  It's pretty much just his running journal leading up to Boston last year, with a brief history of his running career so far.

I am the new official poster child of how not to train for a Marathon,  going on my 2nd week of non-stop work, travel, long hours, different cities, bad food and over training.  I am an absolute wreck.  Felt I was getting sick yesterday, so I started taking Emergen-C every 2 hours, but it was a loosing battle.  Went to bed at 7:00 last night but when I woke up this morning I was in full on sick mode.  First time I remember being sick in probably 2 years.

Went down to the hotel gym anyway, did 50 minutes on the elliptical just to get moving and now another busy day at work.  I really hate this feeling, hopefully I can fight it off soon.

Felt a little better today, of course that could just be the drugs talking.  I decided to still take another day off from running, did 30 minutes on the hotel elliptical. Followed by light stretching and lifting.

I thought on top of having a cold that I had pulled a groin muscle or hip or something which was very upsetting, but after talking to my wife last night she told me there are lots of lymph nodes in that area that were probably swollen from being sick.  That made a lot more sense and made me feel a little bit better that maybe I only had 1 related problem instead of 2.  

Still pretty sick but I really didn't want to go 4 days without running so I got up and went to the gym just in case I wasn't able to run.  Started out very conservative,  one really nice thing about being in pretty good shape is that I can run a ~7:00 pace without needing to breathe hard.  Took a mile or so to get the soreness worked out but started feeling OK.  If I would have known how easy it was going to be I would have woke up an extra 1/2 hour and gone 3-4 more.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace		Avg HR	Max HR
1	7:34	7:34		128	160
2	15:01	7:27		126	129
3	22:20	7:19		133	137
4	29:28	7:08		139	142
5	36:01	7:03		142	144
6	43:59	6:58		146	149
7	50:58	6:59		146	149
8	57:37	6:39		149	151
9	1:04:40	7:03		140	149
10	1:11:33	6:53		146	149
11	1:18:13	6:40		150	153
12	1:24:38	6:25		153	156
Total	1:24:39	7:00		141	156