Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
SO much for going for an easy run this morning and SO much for the so called 74 degrees as a high today Ended up doing a nice progression run despite the fact that it was warm and humid. I was just glad the sun wasn't out shining like it has been. Didn't get out early enough to do my long run today so looks like that will happen tomorrow. Lets just hope the supposed cold front comes in tonight! I sure could use some nice cool weather for some of my runs.
I sure could use some nice cool weather for some of my runs.
Running the 2016 Boston Marathon for Children's Hospital
So I take it things didn't cool off for you? Oh, that's not a tear coming from that emoticon, that sweat! You were brave to do that kind of a workout in those conditions. Great job! How is the ankle? It's coming soon! Hang in there! I'm gonna tuck away this quote from you, and throw it back out at you in February!
Yay!!!!! See what a little nice weather will do for you! Combine the cooler weather with a nice taper, and you are gonna FLY down those hills at Steamtown! Good job holding back today, I know the feeling of wanting to do more. Patience is the key. How is you husband feeling?
That sucks for your husband, Pam. I can sympathize at this point, trust me.
I told him he may as well go and run what he can since we spent the 85 for him to run it and treat it like his last long run before Steamtown.
Good advice. And get him to SLOW DOWN! If you get the Garmin working, use the pacer feature. For a marathon, along with overall mileage, those long runs are key, so he has to slow it down and get through them. Come on Pam, crack that whip!
Ok so I didn't take the day off HOWEVER my run felt so great that the only thing that made me feel like I actually ran was the fact that I was all sweaty. Legs felt good, body felt good. I made dh promise me that if I had the urge to go out and run later to NOT let me!!! I have a hard time fighting the running urge. This next week is going to be a hard week. Long run will be 20 miler. Not sure what the rest of the week will entail though I'm pretty sure Monday and Tuesday will be daily doubles since dh will be working in Reading those two days. I won't have much time to run each morning due to him running as well, so I'll want to get in another run each evening. Wed may or maynot be a day off. Not sure about the rest other than the 20 miler on the weekend. So this week I got in 56 miles. Even though it was supposed to be a stepback I think the only thing I stepped back was the distance of my long run. Feeling awesome despite everything.
That was one heck of a stepback week! Sheesh! But you ended it on a good note, and are feeling good, so go with it! Just know when to say when, ok? Sounds like a crazy week coming up for you. I like how you get the job done though. You do what you gotta do. Did you at least chill out the rest of the day?
Well believe it or not I'm actually feeling like it was a step back. I'm feeling more refreshed right now then I have for awhile. Of course that may be due to weather, we shall see how this next week goes. Definetly not doing another run tonight despite how I'm feeling. Sometimes I do know how to say ok (ok so it's when I've gotten a great weeks worth of running in already lol). Definetly chilled afterwards. I'd love to say that the day rest of the day was WONDERFUL, but unfortunatly due to dh being a consultant and pretty much on call whenenver for the customer. He's working