What ever it takes!

5:15 am. Very frustrating run today, I was suppose to run 9 but for some reason the stupid treadmill kept reseting on me.  I don't understand why some days it does that and some days it doesn't.  I've ran faster for a longer time before but for some reason every 10 minutes when I started getting into a grove it would reset on me.  After 4 resets and 3 different treadmills I got mad and went and lifted weights instead.

I'm calling it 8 miles in 51:00  6:22 avg pace.   I actually think if I could have run straight through I would have averaged better than that, but a 6:25 pace was the plan anyway.

5:15 am.  See, I don't get it, same treadmill and it went the whole 9 miles without resetting once, yesterday I went through 3 treadmills at the same pace.  I don't understand, anyway felt pretty good today, progressive run starting at 6:50 pace ending my last mile at 5:52 pace.  

9 miles in 57:10  6:21 avg.  and then a 1/2 mile cool down.

I really wanted to run a Turkey trot on Thursday, more for my kids than myself, my 8 year old has actually been training pretty good, 1 mile on the treadmill almost everyday.  He's down to a 9 minute mile average, he could probably do it faster but I'm trying to teach him to pace himself and go out slower.  That is a hard concept for a kid.

5:30 am.  Tried to come up with every excuse not do to my 6 mile tempo run this morning. "I had to shovel snow, My legs are sore, My stomach is flip floppy, What if I decide to run a 5K in -1 degree weather tomorrow?  But when I finally got to the gym I told myself that I could just warm up slow and see how things were after 2 miles.  Even if I only did a 4 mile Tempo that would be OK.

So started out at 7:30 pace, 2 mile warm up in 15:00,  Bumped it up to tempo goal pace 5:50/mile.  That went OK so I kept bumping it up every mile, ran the whole 6 miles and ended up not dieing.  So now I'm 2 for 2, survived the terible blizzard of 2010 last night, and survived yet another tempo run.  Yea me.  Splits went like this.

Mile 1- 5:52

Mile 2- 5:49

Mile 3- 5:46

Mile 4- 5:42  Cheated and put the treadmill at -1% for mile 4 and 5

Mile 5- 5:39

Mile 6- 5:27

6 Mile total 34:17  5:42 avg pace.

Rest day, went to the Gym early and swam 1 mile in 43 minutes, sat in the hot tub and got back home before anyone even knew I had left.  Got back in bed and took a 1 hour nap.  I couldn't convince my kids into going to run a Turkey trot this morning.  It looks very nice outside for it,  I think their mother is the one that got it in their head that it is "to cold".  Oh well, not going to fight it.  Now helping get the turkey ready for dinner, looks pretty yummy.

Well since the gym didn't open until 6:00am,  my wife woke up at 5:00 and decided to go shopping, so I ended up being a Black Friday Baby sitter.  Fun Fun.  This week isn't working out so good for running, hopefully Paris has some nice running routes next week.

Hope Everyone had a happy Thanksgiving and didn't get to fat.  I think I'll go have some left over Peacan Pie now.

5:00 am.  Boy 2 days off really takes it's toll, Ryan was out of town so I had to do my long run alone,  wimped out and went to the gym.  

14 miles in 1:29:08  6:21 avg pace.  Last mile in 5:40.