What ever it takes!

So frustrating, I got a room key from our customers hotel room since they stay in the nice hotel and make us "vendors" stay in the looser hotel down the street so that I could use the nicer gym.  Well this gym has really strange hours, 6 am to 10 pm Wednesday - Saturday and open 24 hours Sunday - Tuesday, so I was all ready this morning to wake up at 4:00 am and go get a really long run in.  Well I woke up at 3:30, got ready, stretched and walked over to the hotel when I got there there was a huge party going on on the pool deck which leads to the gym so all the doors were locked unless you went to the Party that had been going on all night.  I went and asked if there was another way to the gym and they told me it wouldn't open until 7:00.  I argued and said it says 24 hours on Sunday, they said well this is still Saturday night, I asked them how it could be open 24 hours on Sunday if it doesn't open until 7:00 am, this question was apparently lost in translation.  So I came back to my junky hotel gym and it is literally just a guest room with 2 treadmills in it.  I thought it would be rude to start running at 4:00am with guestrooms on either side so I went back to bed until 5:45.  Got a little over 1 hour in on the hot humid guestroom treadmill, I was really glad I didn't try to run for 3 hours on it.

Couldn't sleep last night, thought about going to the gym at 3:00 but then decided against it, right about then I went to sleep.  Woke back up at 4:30 went to the gym, ran really slow cause it's really hot and miserable in the gym, did that for 2 hours and then I decided I better go find out why 1/2 my network was down.  Network is down cause they turn the power off at night in Brazil for some reason, I should have ran another hour.  Or slept.

1 hour on the elliptical, 30 minutes of weights, and a really long day of work ahead.

Pretty happy with my run this morning, I was planning on running 20 but I actaully got a good night sleep last night and woke up later than planned.  2 hour progressive run on the treadmill. 

We are finishing up some loose ends at work today and then trying to fly to Rio for a bit.  Should be fun, but the locals are telling us how dangerous it is there so that takes some of the excitement away.  If all I do is hike to the Christ statue and walk on the beach I'll be happy.

Wow!  Life doesn't get much better.  Don't let my wife know I had 1 fun day this week.

 Flights from Sao Paulo to Rio leave every hour and are pretty cheap, even for last minute so we jumped on a plane last night and flew on up.  I timed it, from plan take off to the taxi dropping us off at the front door of the Hotel was only 1 hour, pretty sweet.  This morning I woke up at 4:00 went up to the hotel gym, I did 30 minutes on the elliptical, then 1 hour 24 minutes on the treadmill.  at around 6:15 it started getting light outside and I saw runners.  I was dieing to go run on the beach but wanted to get 10 miles on the treadmill first, then I went to the beach.  Ran on the bike trail to the end of Cococabana beach and back for 3 miles, then I noticed my co-worker running in the sand, so I took my shoes and socks off and ran after him, caught up with him and ran another 1.5 miles with him in the sand and waves.  Then we jumped in the ocean for some body surfing.  Pretty amazing day so far and it's only 8:00am.  Now we are headed to the Christ Statue and then back to catch our flight home.

A 70 mile week, with international travel, not to shabby.  Got home from Brazil last night and called Ryan to see if he was up for an early long run, he's always in.  We started out at a nice 7:30 pace, settled into a 7:30 pace, finished at about a 7:30 pace and averaged about a 7:30 pace.  20 miles in 2:31 I think Mr. Garmin said.

My leg is feeling great, I'm planning on still doing my 50 miler with absolutely no expectation what so ever, I think that's the main key, no pressure.

Going to try for a pretty big mileage week next week and see how it goes.  Just slow easy long miles, hopefully work cooperates.

Now I'm going to read Ogden Race reports.