That I posted something. It's been a week since I changed my approach to training and I have managed to run three times in that span (with another jaunt sometime today). The run when I feel like it plan is in full and total effect. I even had one of the best runs I have had in months Saturday morning.
I woke up grabbed the gear and ran over to my friend's place. He lives a mile away so I always use that as a nice warmup/cooldown, plus he likes to push the pace so it is like a tempo run for the middle distance. Ran a 5-mile loop with him, and his pup, through the lakes neighborhood, you know a neighborhood that has large ponds in it with paths winding around the 'lakes' . It was a glorious morning, we watched the sun come up transitioning through a deep crimson through to the orange glow of early morning. A quick stop to grab a couple of things from his place then I was back at home completing a 7.3 miles run. I loved every minute of it and it didn't feel like and hour of running. Those run keep you coming back for more.
After that, I went with my three year old and my father in-law over to Pullman to catch the WSU football game. Now as opposed to boring you all with the minute details of the game we will surmise it to say that the Cougs rocked. They haven't looked this good (I know the competition hasn't been super) since I was there early in my college life (2003). So Saturday was a great day!
Sunday, though, had an air of remembrance and sadness to it. I spent the morning trying to get the antenna positioned to grab the local CBS station (still no luck) and caught bits and pieces of the 9/11 specials on all the channels. I had intended on running 7 miles to round out a milestone (more on this in a minute) but both my boys awoke as I was preparing to leave, and instead of making my DW get up and deal with both of them I decided to let her sleep for another 45 minutes or so. I spent the day doing stuff with my oldest son, watched a bit of football, went grocery shopping, where we saw the local firefighters hang a large US flag across the only major intersection in town. This prompted questions from my 3yo. Not that he isn't inquisitive as is, but he really wanted to know what all the flags were about, a question that I had a hard time answering at a 3yo level. I explained briefly about bad-guys and told him that one day he would understand better, an answer he liked, at least he didn't ask anymore questions. But overall a great weekend.
So this leaves me back at the milestone. I am approaching 500 miles for the year, was a whopping 30 miles or so away from it at the beginning of the month, and have been sneaking up on it this whole time. I noticed that I was only 24 miles away last week, and had made up my mind to get past that mark and move on. Well, I guess this is like baseball where a hitter is approaching 500 HRs and gets to 499 and sits for 14 games before hitting 2 in a game to go past 500. That's me right now. I have a measly little 2.5 miles left to knock off that milestone, so I think that today (lunch run, or after work) I will go out and knock off a quickie in order to take care of that.
My goal at the beginning of the year was to run 600 miles, or 50 a month. Knowing that I am 102.5 miles from that goal is an amazing feeling. I will be knocking out the 600 sometime early next month as I taper for the local marathon at the end of October. I have made no plans for November or December yet, though I will try to keep a solid base so that I can start building up next season. I will run 4 or so local races during the winter months (5ks mostly).
Ok enough for now. Have a great day out there and HAVE FUN!
I woke up grabbed the gear and ran over to my friend's place. He lives a mile away so I always use that as a nice warmup/cooldown, plus he likes to push the pace so it is like a tempo run for the middle distance. Ran a 5-mile loop with him, and his pup, through the lakes neighborhood, you know a neighborhood that has large ponds in it with paths winding around the 'lakes' . It was a glorious morning, we watched the sun come up transitioning through a deep crimson through to the orange glow of early morning. A quick stop to grab a couple of things from his place then I was back at home completing a 7.3 miles run. I loved every minute of it and it didn't feel like and hour of running. Those run keep you coming back for more.
After that, I went with my three year old and my father in-law over to Pullman to catch the WSU football game. Now as opposed to boring you all with the minute details of the game we will surmise it to say that the Cougs rocked. They haven't looked this good (I know the competition hasn't been super) since I was there early in my college life (2003). So Saturday was a great day!
Sunday, though, had an air of remembrance and sadness to it. I spent the morning trying to get the antenna positioned to grab the local CBS station (still no luck) and caught bits and pieces of the 9/11 specials on all the channels. I had intended on running 7 miles to round out a milestone (more on this in a minute) but both my boys awoke as I was preparing to leave, and instead of making my DW get up and deal with both of them I decided to let her sleep for another 45 minutes or so. I spent the day doing stuff with my oldest son, watched a bit of football, went grocery shopping, where we saw the local firefighters hang a large US flag across the only major intersection in town. This prompted questions from my 3yo. Not that he isn't inquisitive as is, but he really wanted to know what all the flags were about, a question that I had a hard time answering at a 3yo level. I explained briefly about bad-guys and told him that one day he would understand better, an answer he liked, at least he didn't ask anymore questions. But overall a great weekend.
So this leaves me back at the milestone. I am approaching 500 miles for the year, was a whopping 30 miles or so away from it at the beginning of the month, and have been sneaking up on it this whole time. I noticed that I was only 24 miles away last week, and had made up my mind to get past that mark and move on. Well, I guess this is like baseball where a hitter is approaching 500 HRs and gets to 499 and sits for 14 games before hitting 2 in a game to go past 500. That's me right now. I have a measly little 2.5 miles left to knock off that milestone, so I think that today (lunch run, or after work) I will go out and knock off a quickie in order to take care of that.
My goal at the beginning of the year was to run 600 miles, or 50 a month. Knowing that I am 102.5 miles from that goal is an amazing feeling. I will be knocking out the 600 sometime early next month as I taper for the local marathon at the end of October. I have made no plans for November or December yet, though I will try to keep a solid base so that I can start building up next season. I will run 4 or so local races during the winter months (5ks mostly).
Ok enough for now. Have a great day out there and HAVE FUN!
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