Week Runs

Sunday - rest! 0

Monday - 9 at night, felt good and quick.

Tuesday - 7 with Sara in the morning. I got us a little lost, but we found our way back to the Cherry Creek path, phew!

Wednesday - 7 (I switched today with tomorrow, so I could spend more time with Sara.)

Thursday - Wow. Hard to motivate! Got home from the day at 8:00 p.m. and then had to pull it together to run 10. It was already dark when I left and I headed down Cherry Creek path. It's fine for the first 20 min, then you have to go under a series of dark bridges (away from car/foot traffic) and I get a little creeped out. I saw one dude sort of dinking around on his bike with no lights or helmet. Weird. Then, I came face to face with a coyote on the CC path! Eek! I stopped and looked it in the eyes until it went down toward the creek. Sheesh. I turned around but I still needed another 50 minutes! I dwaddled around Wash Park and stuff. Boring. I ate a big dinner and some post-run recovery smoothie so I wouldn't be sore the next morning. 10.

Friday - A mere, uh, 7 hours later a friend and I ran our new found City Loop Park. So great. Training has been much more consistent and fun with people to chit chat with. Go us! 9.

Saturday - Still felt like I hadn't gotten enough sleep or recovery time, but got up at 5ish to meet at 6 at Highline. Got in a great long run with my friend's neighbor. Tee hee - just me and this guy, a 50 year old married with kids tyoe, showed up and ended up running together. So fun to chit chat and talk running (he did a 2:22 marathon back in the day!). Anyway, he's also just a little bit faster than I am, so I felt great getting in a good paced long run. 16

I read that you should do the most running at marathon pace that you can, particularly during your long runs. So, some long runs just slow and easy, but others really try to pick up the pace. I also practiced by taking goo. I am trying to "train smart" by using my little hand-held water bottle, practice taking goo, stuff like that. I really want to do well in Philly so I'm doing all the little things. Well, ahem, almost. I need to work on getting more sleep. But, hey, I feel pretty good with a solid month of training plan behind me. I haven't missed a single day of training [yet?]! I am proud of myself. Hope I don't miss a single day of my little plan! And, I feelt pretty ache-free. Number 1 goal is to get to the marathon healthy. Number 2 goal is to have fun (if you don't have fun, you won't want to do it again!). Goals after that get more superficial (read: time-specific).

My long runs have been feeling easier, my legs are pretty fresh and I'm ready to step up the training (weekly mileage) a bit for the new month ahead. Wow, September already!

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