easy, easy, easy

Easy, easy, easy 7 miler this morning.  90 minutes easy!!!  I felt pretty good, knees were a bit creaky but they'll be okay.  As I ran this morning my mind wandered to the Bandera 50k.  I've decided to do the 50k instead of the 100k to have less recovery time before the Nueces 50 mile.  I've been thinking of racing the the 50k but am now thinking that might not be a good idea.  If I just treat it as a regular long run I'll have minimal recovery time and can get back to some harder training much faster.  I think I'll gain as much as 2 weeks of good training if I take it easy on the 50k. This is kind of exciting actually planning towards peaking for a race!!

45

120 crunches
45 pushups

Getting back into it.

Misty

Misty and I walked 2 miles Thanksgiving morning and we did a 6 mile run/walk yesterday with Stacy at Kens.

easy

7 miles this morning at LBL in 1:08.  Our agreement was for an "easy" 7 miler this morning in lieu of my 50 miler Saturday.  Well I suppose wasn't too bad but I'd planned on slower.  We even walked up the hill in Riverside!!  Shan said, "You set the pace".  It's all good and I was able to talk the whole way too.  Been doing some positive visualization this week and even though I'm terribly undertrained I'm feeling pretty good about the run.  I'm super excited about Vincent joining me at the 8hr mark.  It's gonna be a lot of fun!!!

brisk

5 mile hike in Barton Creek with Misty and Stacy.  Fairly brisk hike this morning.

TOUGH

Hard 10 mile this morning in 1:41.  That was tough but I pushed through.  We went through 7 in 1:12 which would have been a satisfactory time for me not that long ago.  So, I guess I'm getting stronger.  I'm still going to be behind the 8 ball next Saturday but I'll get through, most likely to take nearly ALL the 14hrs to get it done but that's okay too.

shake out

5 miles yesterday evening at LBL.  Took it easy on a shake out run.  First run since Bandera.  I had some bad allergies/ cold for most of last week and felt like crap.  Easing into the 50 miler next Saturday.  Going to get in a hard 10 miles tomorrow morning with the Thursday crew, an easy 10 Saturday, maybe a few junk miles Sunday.  7 next Tuesday morning and not sure about next Thursday, maybe a hard 5.

Almost forgot to add that I did 120 jumping jacks, 120 crunches and 36 dips this morning.  Getting back into it after a 2 week break!!