July 21st - 27th

7/21 - 13.5 miles 1:33:24
Wasn't able to get a good long run in last week so I figured that this would be a good day for it. Felt good through about 11 miles and then struggled the last two. Not a bad day though.

7/22 - 9 miles 1:05:30
Easy day

7/23 - 9.1 miles 1:08:40
Easy day out at Turtle River so who knows what the actual mileage was for the day. It is always a little goofy out there due to the hills and tree cover. Really tired due to very crappy sleep I think.

7/24 - 11.2 miles 1:20:40
Another real easy day of recovering but feeling much better and felt fine at the end of the run. There was some tiredness towards the end but felt a lot better than yesterday.

7/25 - 9.2 miles 1:02:50
Workout today
3.25 warmup (7:20 pace average)
3 x (2 x 400, 1 x 800)
77 (129??)
73 (148)
2:29 (161)
73 (144)
72 (149)
2:24 (164)
73 (152)
71 (153)
2:29 (166)
3.25 cooldown (7:40 pace)

Workout was good. The repeats were faster than what they say but it was hard to get an accurate time reading with the garmin. It is times like this that the normal watches are nicer to have. I was really pleased with the way that the workout went overall. Being that I had to start the watch and then press lap after a second or two things were a little off. I know that I had a couple of 400's at 69 but not many. They felt a little weird being that I have not done any really fast speed work this summer. Good thing I don't have to use that speed very much in the near future.

7/26 off

7/27 off

Overall it was a great start of the week that ended badly due to rediculous amounts of traveling and lack of sleep. I probably really need the days off and will probably benefit from them more than they will hurt me. I have been feeling a really tired on the runs as of lately and have not been able to pinpoint why. I was starting to think that it me be that i was a little anemic because i have ot been eating much meat over the last couple of weeks. So I started eating a little differently and it has seemed to have helped out quite a bit. I have a really busy schedule ahead of me and so I am going to have to stay focused on the goals ahead for twin cities before I can take it easy for a couple of weeks and hit it hard for the winter base training and possibly the Fargo Marathon in the spring :)

Week Total : 52
MTD : 225