Back in the saddle???

It has been a while. I have attempted to blog without much success. I hope to be able to keep this up throughout the season with a bit more weekly posts. Here is a recap of what I have been up to the last few days.

Monday Feb 2

14 miles in the wind. Felt ok coming back from Saturdays run. Finished with 8 x 8sec short hills.

Tuesday
a bit cold so I opted for the tmill. The footing is still terrible here so I wasn't going to risk it. 6 warm up then 1 more on the treadmill. 4 x mile 3 min rest. Sort of a stapple workout this early in the season. I did 5/5/4:52/4:42. Last year I did these a bit faster but that didn't necessarily equal better fitness. Here is what I am refering to. Last year I had a bunch of pretty solid workouts on the treadmill. I thought I was pretty fit and ready to run well at the human race based of off almost all treadmill workouts. A few workouts ended with miles in the 4:30s. Most of us know but the treadmill isn't always good and I am learning that more and more every year. In the past I have only used it at the end of long runs, which I found to really help. From now on I am only really using the treadmill to get some solid stuff in and not really worry about the numbers.

Wednesday was easy two runs for 15 miles.

Thursday

8 x 30 sec at 10k pace with 30 secs. rest.

Friday
6/6=12

Saturday

Things were looking up that this would be a good day. That is until I woke up with major stomach issues. Needless to say as I post this monday night I am still not 100 percent.
8 miles/ 3 bathrooms stops.

Sunday

a bit better but the run was terrible. Felt way out of it.
5 miles was a major struggle.

83 miles for the week.

I am going to make some changes in how I do things. Last night I was paging through my 06 log. One thing really jumped out at me. The little things. Strides, weights, drills, post long run ice baths, endurox. Things that I haven't stuck to since. Today I am going to also start posting some things in my log that will hopefully be a new weekly occurance. One mileage goal for that week followed by one workout goal. This week my goals are 105 miles and 8 miles at marathon pace.