Tuesday - Road - 1 mile. That's right. Drove all the way down to Barton Springs, ran one mile with Karma, but couldn't find the desire to then go run the 5-7or9 miles I was hoping to get, so I just drove back home.
Wednesday - Road - 11 miles. 1 mile with Karma followed by 10 miles on roads.
Thursday - Road - 11 miles. 1 mile with Karma followed by 10 miles on roads.
Friday - Road - 20 miles. I opted to run my long run with friends on Friday instead of having to run it on my own on Saturday. This was the longest run I've run on roads since April 2010, and the last 4 miles really sucked. Not to mention how badly the lights went out with 2 miles to go. Total run time, including many water stops was 3 hours 15 minutes. I can safely say it will be a VERY long time before I sign up to start a long run at 4am on a work day.
Saturday - Rest - My Friday started at 3:15am, and didn't end till a bit past midnight. I was exhausted and really sore from the day before so no run was possible.
Sunday - Trails - 12 miles. ran half an hour with Karma, then went back out for 60-90 minutes. I was having fun out there, so it turned into two extra hours, so 2.5 hours total. Pace was quite slow with Karma as it's very hot and humid out at 7am. the next two hours were better, but felt like my brain was boiling from the 80 degrees, high humidity, and general lack of air/breeze among the trees.
Total miles 55
The goal this week was 50-55 miles.
Goal for next week is to top 60miles, then i have a down week due to exciting work travels.
Here's what my weekly totals (GREEN) and my long runs (BLUE) have been since my return from injury.
All but three of these long runs below have been on the trails.
Even though I look at the blue graph and it's numbers and am pretty happy with how i've staggered my longer runs, how careful i've been to not overdo weekly totals as I slowly rebuild etc.... I am not happy with how I feel about any one those blue runs. Not a single one of them. My legs just felt dead tired for the last 30mins of every one those.
I know I need to be patient, as 10 months is a long time to be away, and I lost A TON of fitness/strength etc, but I just expect more from myself in general, so it's frustrating.
I really miss having access to my old coach once a week - bouncing ideas off of him, getting all the advice, building a plan, etc. : (
If anyone has any comments, or any ideas on how to get my legs of old to return, don't be shy!
16 weeks till Zion.
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