Run through me? Hope you aren't in any hurry!
Training has gone fairly well, with the possible exception of last week. It was a low-mileage week (49). I made it an even lower mileage week (39.5), plus I ate like sh*t. So any hope of being at race weight by the end of this month...won't happen. Fine. Not gonna get bent out of shape over that, no pun intended. I'll be there in plenty of time. As for the running itself, I often find I have this issue when I get an easy week. Extra time on my hands = getting comfortable = getting lazy. So I'm happy that the week is over and I can get back to running some more significant miles.
One of the things that has also hurt my training is the World Cup. I'm a soccer fanatic, and so getting up early to run hasn't been happening because I've been waking up early to watch soccer. And with group play going from 7:30AM to 4:30 PM, I've been squeezing in my running either from noon-2:30 b/w games 2 and 3, or at night. And all that time on the couch watching TV leads to eating. And that's also why I won't be at race weight by June. Well, that and my wife's and my recent quest to find the best burger in Cincinnati. =)
So week 4 is well under way, I'm getting my miles in, and my diet is back to normal. Actually, I'm trying to get most of miles in during the first 4 days of the week (8 Monday, 16 Tuesday, 10 today, two 7-milers tomorrow), so I can have shorter runs on Friday & Saturday (9 Friday, 6 Saturday) b/c I plan to take my first crack at a 19-minute 5K on Sunday, July 4th.
The plan so far, I really like. The flexibility has been great, and that's exactly what I was hoping for. First few weeks, there haven't been any real "long runs", just a lot of 7-15 milers, with some tempo and interval runs thrown into the mix. The longer runs will be coming up soon though. I'm actually looking forward to them.
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