Hiccups

This past week has been odd for my training. I had a lively paced hour run friday night before venturing out to DC, sleeping(horribley) on a friends couch and rendering myself incapable of doing much besides lay in bed on saturday. Sunday however was my longest run this time around at 1hour52minutes. As Ant described earlier, fall is coming. I wasn't sure what to expect leaving my house with a stiff and groggy feeling but once i realized it was October, then the crisp cool air hit my face as i slowly picked up speed atop fallen orange, maroon, and brown leaves, and a little piece of heaven came blaring through my headphones, i was completely slapped across the face by autumn. And i loved it! I felt good the entire way and although i had no gu was able to still finish without feeling entirely depleted. Just mostly depleted.

I was, however, very stupid and lacked of all samurai discipline as i only got 5 hours of sleep that night and had to work til midnight the next day. Working a 14 hour workday isn't very conducive to training FYI and i was not able to get any sort of workout in that day. Those factors, coupled with the weather changing, caused me to fall victim to illness the rest of the week. I still managed to get in 2 lifts, a 45 minutes run tuesday and thursday, and workout today, albeit still feeling groggy and sick.

Today was the first workout i've done in a LONG time. Although it was nothing to write home about, i was satified. 15min warmup, 4x1 mile with 2:00mins rest, 20 min cooldown. My splits were 6:00, 5:30, 5:38, 5:30. They had to be done on the W&OD since most tracks are closed due to friday night lights football. It hurt. But it will help my fitness and i hope to get a few more workouts in before the race.

The plan this weekend is an easy run with some upper body work tomorrow followed by 15 or so on monday.

-Kyle