Day Off

Since this week is shot anyway (I know that is a stupid way to think about it, but whatever) I'm going to rest up another day.

Day Off

I guess I should've waited out the cold a bit more. The run yesterday seems to have set me back to as bad as I felt on Thursday morning.

24th, Shoal Creek

Time: 50:00
Distance: 7 mi.

Easy morning run with Hanley. Headed down to campus and over to Shoal Creek on 24th. Right hamstring and glute are very very tight, which is annoying... I really can't seem to get it to loosen up. I should probably start doing some strength work on it. This stupid cold is lingering too, and has now lasted a full week.

Day Off, Bowling

Cold was no better and maybe worse in the morning, so I decided to take another day off. Annoying, but at this point for the race on Saturday it is better to be healthy than have run an extra day.

Also, I am going to start putting my bowling scores on here, I think. This is now a running and bowling log. Tonight with Brian and Barry I rolled 5 games... using the spin method my high score was 126 (2nd game) and using the straight method my high score was 130 (5th game). The rest were mediocre. I bowled last week and didn't do much better.

Bull Creek

Time: 45:00
Distance: 6 mi.

Very easy morning run with Erik. Right hammy very tight from yesterday's workout. Got a pretty good night's sleep, so I'm hoping to start feeling better. Still congested and coughing stuff up, but better than yesterday.

3 Mile Tempo

Time: 55:30
Distance: 8.5 mi.

Target: 3 mile tempo, first and last miles under 5:00 (to help Hanley hit his times), middle mile of "recovery" at 5:30
Workout: 4:57, 5:26, 4:57; 15:20 for 3 miles

Hanley and Tom have apparently started challenging each other to workouts. Since Tom is now my racing arch-nemesis, I was happy to help out with Team Hanley today. I think ideally I would've taken one more easy day to kill this cold, but I was feeling stircrazy after two days of not running and a frustrating day. Despite throat and nose soreness and stuffiness I felt very relaxed through two miles--bringing the pace back down really didn't feel good. It also didn't help that my stomach wasn't settled at all. Oh well... it was fun to run in the cool evening on the dark track.

I also have to get the legs going a few times this week as I am officially signed up for the Decker Challenge 20k on Sunday. It looks like it will be... a challenge.

Also, the Daily Texan finally put up a story from an interview I did a few weeks back. I'm glad they got the final quote in, because it pretty much sums up how I'm feeling these days:

"I will miss being on a team with these guys," he said. "There is something about competing with a team ... an anxious feeling that you are competing for something bigger than your own performance."

Day Off

Planned day off traveling back to Austin and heading straight to class and a group project work session. Cold continues.

Day Off

Feeling beat yesterday turned into feeling sick today. Happy to take the day off.

Town Lake East

Time: 90:30
Distance: 13 mi.

Back on the horse. Feeling quite a bit better than yesterday morning, though still a bit of the nose-throat head stuffiness remains. Definitely not ready to breathe really hard and do the tough workout that the guys were doing. They did 16 hills at the golf course and then 3 miles on the track just under 4:30 with a full 5:00 recovery. This is similar to a workout that we did last year, and I was sorry to miss it.

Good chat with Vig in the afternoon about the rest of the season. Can't wait for things to start heating up... We'll get to see almost every good team this weekend.

Day Off

One of my rules of thumb for training is that I don't really like planned days off. Taking "planned" days off, for me, discourages taking days off when I really need them. Thus, my rule of thumb for days off also stipulates that I take "unplanned" days off when the time is right.

My mild feelings of a head cold from yesterday have been realized and I've had a headache, congestion, and a bit of a sore throat. Time for a day off. If I feel great tomorrow, I'll do the workout. If not, I won't, which is fine. First day off in almost exactly a month.