So….I took a rest weekend and didn’t do a long run.   I ran my tempo and track workouts but the weekend got busy, I had a house guest and we went out for drinks Friday night and had a few drinks on Saturday.  Just was not feeling it for the long run.  Two out of three ain’t bad, hopefully this week I will get my 3 ‘quality’ runs in the schedule.  I’m also running my 3 mile ‘tempo’ run on Thursday as a 5K.  I realized the last time I ran a 5K without kids in tow was 2010, so i’m going to go for a new PR.  (last year’s turkey trot 5K with kids I ran/walked it in 38 mins.)  My PR per Athlinks is 25:18 which may be out of reach but something to strive for.  This week’s race is a mostly downhill course with a sharp uphill at the very end.  Seems doable.

Have you checked out Athlinks?  A friend referred me to it and it’s pretty cool for the tracking your race results.  I have run 9 marathons but I have no idea how many halfs (halves?), 10 and 5Ks.   I’m working to tally up my half marathons.  Not all the results are on Athlinks, particularly for races where I *may* have run with a friend’s bib or bought a bib on craigslist.  Sometimes you miss the signup and sometimes you sign up but can’t run the race.  I’m not against swapping for minor races and also (BTW) races could allow swapping, it’s just changing the name in the database and they could even charge another registration fee and make more money on the trade.   I’m not qualifying for Boston, so in the past I’ve run under a pseudonym at a few races.  Subject for a future blog about bib transfer thoughts, now back to the training update.

Planned / Actual miles: 31.5 / 13.9

Monday. I had to head to work early with no workout, but I hit the treadmill as soon as I got home. This humidity is crazy plus it was getting on to evening.  I got in my 4 mile tempo + 1 cool down and 1 for warm up.  Catching up on Elementary on CBS streaming on the iPad.

Tuesday. Orange theory last day for bingo!  Take a selfie with your coach was a square so here’s my selfie with my coach! … spoiler alert: I didn’t win the bingo raffle drawing.

Wednesday. Nothing.
Late Monday night and early Tuesday caught up with me.

Thursday. Orange theory workout.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday.  Track workout early before work on Friday and then martini night!  I felt good getting my track intervals, 5 x 1K was no joke, actually challenging to run each at about 7.4mph on the treadmill.    Friday night, out for martinis.  Saturday was rainy and we headed ‘upta’ Maine for brunch.  My kids are in the braces age, one got them off last winter and one is getting them on in two weeks.  Since they don’t have saltwater taffy in February, we hit up the candy store on the way to brunch.  They have barrels of taffy, barrels!   We let the kids do all you can eat taffy before the braces, then it’s a long 2 years with nothing chewy.

Sunday, hit the snooze on the long run.   Here’s to next week!

See you out there, follow me on Strava if you like!
– Jenn