Monday: managed to get out for a bit of a run along the strand, not much vertical, but a nice effort with a negative split. mental note, the strand is a good shakeout run, but not highly motivating to get out there for. there just isn't the scenery i look forward to
Tuesday: managed to crawl out of bed shortly before rehab and take a short warm up run into rehab. did a little more then 1 hour of stretching, range of motion and balance work, then ran a slightly out of the way return trip.
Wednesday: i managed to motivate and get out of bed a little early to squeeze in a morning run. good strong run. started out a bit heavy in the legs but this went a way pretty quickly. starting at mile 3 i happened across several runners going in the same direction which turned into rabbits. I made a conscious effort to try to keep my current pace faster than 9:00 min/mile throughout the run. legs felt pretty good. hoping to squeeze in another run today.
Thursday: it was a difficult struggle to get out of bed this morning, though i managed to make it up in time to get in a bit of a run before rehab. then i sandwiched my rehab between 2 runs. i stretched the return run a little long as i was starting to feel good. bonus run this evening to the bank to make a deposit, i managed to negative split this, and actually felt pretty good
Friday: legs are a bit heavy on this run, so it will be a recovery run. then around 5 miles it turned out to feel pretty good so i went with it for a bit and slowed again towards the end. not sure why legs feel so sluggish.
Saturday: too lazy to get out of bed in time to get in a real bit of running. i wound up motivating a bit late in the game and had to settle for a pressed flat tempo run. i do need to focus on getting more vert in. i should be accumulating 15 - 20k of vert per week. need to focus more on vert then distance or pace.
Sunday: life once again sabotaging my good intentions. had other obligations to tend to this morning which cut my run shorter then i wanted. i managed to get in a little bit of climbing - enough to have my legs asking for reprieve which i granted twice earlier on in the climb. i'll try to squeeze in some vertical this evening, instead i wound up paving the road.
Summary: a very unspectacular week. life got in the way on a couple of occasions, by this i mean i was unable to motivate sufficiently on several mornings to get out of bed and get in the running i was planning on. My ambition suffered a bit of a slump, and i didn't really find myself looking forward to getting out very much. I hope to break through the slump in the coming weeks and get back to logging some good miles. my focus will shift to climbing more than distance and hopefully i'll be able to prioritize sufficiently to push my run times up to 12 - 15 hours. i know i have it in me, and have shifted my eating habits to better support such training loads. lets see if i really want this, or if i'm just making noise.
Total Time: 10:26
Run Time: 8:01
Other: 2:25
Distance: 59.3
TSS: 570
climbing: 3575
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