Never get too high or too low

I can explain the title. I learned so much the year I qualified. One thing I always stuck with was the title above. A good workout or a bad one, keep an even keel. I know I missed blogging for more than a week. Actually two weeks. I am going to start with the 16th and go from there. The week from the 9th to the 16th went well.

Feb 16. 14 miles easy.
Feb 17. 5 x 800 uphill runs 2:50 with a long jog back down. Felt ok. Not as sharp.
Feb 18. I don't like to do back to back workouts but yeasterdays workout left me feeling a bit empty. Today was 3 x 15:00 minutes at 5:20/5:10/5:00 with 3 minutes rest. I stopped at 10 minutes on the last one feeling like I could have done it but I didn't want to push through with the anticipation of fridays long day. I left feeling pretty good.

Feb 19. Easy day 11 miles very easy 6:45 to 7 min pace

Feb 20. 18 miles at 6 minute pace. I chose a good day to do this. Weather was 5 degrees with light south winds. I chose a hilly early part of the route ending with some hills. I finished at 5:58 pace. Really encouraged by this workout this early. Saturday and sunday were 15 and 14 miles with some buddies.


Goals for this week are to maintain fitness meaning no huge workouts and to start push ups and sit ups at 50 push and 100 sit. Also to again get 105 or better miles. I have been very consistant in this so far. Things are rolling well.