Well its Sunday morning and I'm doing some well earned relaxing after the week I've had.
Tuesday - Stacey and I ran 10k together. our usual 10k route from our place to just past the Sackville Sports Stadium and back. No issues for me though Stacey has 2 blisters from the previous week that she's dealing with.
Wednesday - no running so I did a few strength exercises for my hips and knees.
Thursday - I run over to the track (3.2k) and meet Stacey there for the workout portion of my run. The weather was nice and the track had a couple of icy spots on it but not enough to stop the 6k workout portion of my run. Running on a track is nice in one way, its soft but you don't really get a break from running on it either like you would when you get to run downhill for a bit on streets. I wind up running 6k in 29:33.
Friday - I decide to bump my runs from Saturday/Sunday to Friday/Saturday due to the forecast so today i a 5k recovery run followed by 6 strides. I don't bother timing these runs because i don't care what time i get. its just an easy run. I was happy with being able to run the whole thing using my pair of New Balance MT10's. I usually wear Saucony Kinveras but today i decided to go a little more minimalist and it felt good. No pain issues at all.
Saturday - my 24k run. I start at 6:45 am and manage to get the whole run in before the rain starts. I'm sure glad now that i ran it yesterday and not today judging by the amount of ice out there now. I finish my 24.1 k in 2:36. not blazingly fast but I'm still ahead of last year. I spent most of my run listening to Coldplay and the Foo Fighters. Three runs in three days leave me very tired. I'm used to alternating between a day of running and a day off so this was pushing it for me. No pain though and that makes me a happy camper!
My coach sent me my weekly schedule up to the Bluenose Marathon and I gotta say that it's made me nervous. I'm going to be putting in some big weekly mileage figures and some very long Sunday runs (22k to a max of 34k). This is nothing at all like the schedule i made up for myself for last years marathons but then again, I wasn't happy with last years results (4:48 and 5:22) so doing all this extra running can't hurt. At this rate i'll need a new pair of Kinveras before the Bluenose as my current pair will be worn out.
I was thinking about a question a friend asked me a while back about my running. He joking asked me "what are you running from"? I likely had a smart-assed answer at the time but during my long run yesterday, I asked myself the same question. I had plenty of time to answer it this time. Its not all about what I'm running from, its what I'm running to. What that is? I don't know. Will I know it when I get there? I don't know, probably not. Am I enjoying the journey? Definately. Would I give it up for my previous life of getting by doing the bare minimum? NEVER. Thats what I'm running from.
Onward and upward.
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