What ever it takes!

As much as I love running in this weather and don't look forward to going back to the cold, I'm ready to be done.  12 -14 hour work days, parties in the hotel halls until 2:00 am, and my family drove down to get some Disney time in this weekend, and I have a 3 year old that is up all night coughing.  I'm beat.   I have to come to work early just to get away from it all.

This mornings run called for a General Aerobic run with some 10 x 100's for speed, did my Downtown Disney loop out to the Bunny trail run, ran the trail 1 mile out and back and then coming back down Katella Ave. I used intersections as my sprints.  Nothing like oncoming traffic to dodge to keep those splits up.  Looking at my HR peaks there were about 9 intersections I sprinted across.  My legs are feeling a little worn.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Avg HR	Max HR
1	7:10	7:10		152	169
2	7:00	7:00		140	146
3	7:11	7:11		142	146
4	6:55	6:55		144	151
5	7:00	7:00		148	153
6	6:37	6:37		148	157
7	6:16	6:16		160	165
8	6:18	6:18		162	167
9	6:17	6:17		160	169
Total	1:00:51	6:45		150	169

Well, I got a little bit better sleep last night than the last few, but I think I'm catching whatever bug my kids brought down from Salt Lake, a bit of a sore throat this morning.  :(

Same run today, out to the trail, 6.5 miles out and back for a total of 13.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace		Avg HR	Max HR
1	7:11	7:11		166	177
2	7:16	7:16		139	152
3	6:51	6:51		144	150
4	6:42	6:42		151	155
5	6:42	6:42		153	156
6	6:44	6:44		155	159
7	6:30	6:30		154	159
8	6:19	6:19		158	160
9	6:13	6:13		159	162
10	6:19	6:19		160	162
11	6:31	6:31		157	161
12	6:42	6:42		158	160
13	6:40	6:40		156	160
Total	1:26:39	6:40		154	162

Well, today was a recovery day, so I don't feel to guilty, but I always feel guilty for some reason when I miss a scheduled run.  Intel, (the company I'm working for this week) had a big party at California Adventure last night.  Since my wife was in town I decided it would be fun for the 2 of us to go.  Intel bought out the entire park for the night, which was super fun cause all the rides were just walk on basically.  Lots of really yummy food and deserts, I couldn't have run this morning even if I'd tried. 

We were out until 1:00 am and then at 3:30 am the party continued in the hotel hallway out side my room.  And then an early 7:00 am work start for our last day of conference. 

 So ready to be done.

Long day today, we finished up our conference last night, went to Cheese Cake Factory for dinner for a final horrah and off to bed for the first decent night sleep in over 1 week.  I woke up early and did my final Downtown Disney to Bunny Trail loop, coming back I tried to keep as fast of a pace as I felt I could hold without feeling tight or over extended.  Concentrated on staying relaxed.

Got back to the hotel, hurried and packed up the car for the 10.5 hour drive back home,  made it home safe and am very excited to sleep in my own bed again.  I had to give up perfect weather for decent sleep, not sure where the balance is.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace		Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:55	6:55		141	150
2	6:42	6:42		148	153
3	6:32	6:32		154	160
4	6:34	6:34		158	161
5	6:31	6:31		158	163
6	6:34	6:34		161	163
7	6:05	6:05		160	165
8	6:09	6:09		164	167
9	6:17	6:17		157	165
10	6:19	6:19		161	164
11	6:23	6:23		161	165
Total	1:10:35	6:27		156	167

Wow, 8 hours of un-interupted sleep.  Woke up at 5:00 and drove to the gym.  First time on a treadmill in over 2 weeks.  Easy recovery run today,  I threw in a fast last mile just cause I was bored but still calling it a recovery.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace		Avg HR	Max HR
1	7:05	7:05
2	7:03	7:03
3	6:53	6:53
4	7:08	7:08
5	6:31	6:31
6	5:50	5:50			167
Total	40:29	6:44		154	167

 

That was a bit of a shock to the system after being in Southern Cal for 2 weeks in perfect weather and then running in this yuck.  Between the cold, smog and elevation my lungs were really hating life this morning, and then try to throw in a tempo run on top of it.  Today was suppose to be 17 with an 8 mile Tempo.  E-mailed Ryan and asked if he was up for it, his schedule only called for 8 today but as always he tags along on what ever crazy training run I have in store.   Next week I'll have to bend the other way and go on a 20 with him even though my schedule only has me down for 17. 

We ran 8 down Center Street Lehi and then when we got to the JRP I tried to pick up the pace, didn't really get it where I wanted to be, but the effort was there for sure.

I'm pretty mad, I forgot to put my Garmin on auto splits so I had to do a bunch of math this morning to get my splits.   Total time is correct, but splits may be off slightly.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace		Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:52	6:52
2	6:37	6:37
3	6:48	6:48
4	6:25	6:25
5	6:19	6:19
6	6:18	6:18
7	6:32	6:32
8	6:31	6:31
9	6:11	6:11
10	6:19	6:19
11	6:14	6:14
12	5:58	5:58
13	6:31	6:31
14	6:39	6:39
15	6:51	6:51
16	6:56	6:56
17	6:34	6:34
Total	1:51:41	6:34		156	164