Trust The Process

Noon - 7 miles on the TM in 54:35.

8pm - 7 miles on the TM at home in 55:20. The run felt good this evening as I had a lot of energy. I thought the oversized portion of Chinese food leftovers was going to make me feel sluggish, but it didn't. I guess the two hours between dinner and the run helped.

Noon - I took a long break to fit in my run today.  9 total miles on the TM (1%) with 10x100m strides just before my cool down.  Total time was 69:40.  The strides started at 6:00 pace and progressively got faster each set, final set was 5:27 pace.  My legs felt great during the strides, but are pretty tight now, especially my hamstrings.  I will plan to use the roller tonight and take an epsom salt bath.  Recovery day tomorrow. 

5 recovery miles on the TM.  8:48 avg pace

Happy 4th of July everyone and Happy 1st birthday to our son Russell!! It's hard to believe a year ago today we were in the hospital waiting for the arrival of our son. We have survived the year well.

11 easy miles along the banks and west river drive. I was out the door by 7:30 so the heat wasn't bad. It was really humid but there was a decent breeze coming back home. Avg pace was 7:52.

Looking forward to spending the day off with friends and family. We are going to a BBQ this afternoon and will try to watch fireworks tonight' from our roof deck. I have a feeling our view will be blocked though.

5 recovery miles on the TM.  8:40 avg pace

Long run today in and around Mercer County Park in NJ near my mother in law's house. I started my run at 7:30am and it was already 80 degrees with close to 100 percent humidity.  by the time I finished it was easily in the 90s.  a few miles into the run, i decided to throw out any time goals today and wanted to just survive without overheating.  i probably drank about 100 oz of water during the run and still had aheadache by the finish.  avg pace was 8:39.  i a happy to have the long run out o the way and to have  day off tomorrow.