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17 miles 104:36

Daytona Sidewalks

Superbowl Sunday.  I'm taking the Bears 31-13 over the Colts.  Defense wins championships and up until the second half against the Patriots Manning was playing horribly.  If the Colts win I will of course delete this.  Long run day today and I got in a solid 17 miler.  I wasn't sore at all today which was nice but early on I was tight in the plantar and the shin was as well.  They loosened up eventually but I never seemed to.  I just felt tight, espceially in the upper body all run.  Good week of mileage this week (80 from Mon-Sun) with a race involved.  I've got a weekend off from racing next weekend (but not off from learning as I've got the CE9 clinical entrance exam and Part 2 board review all day Sat and Sunday).  I'm going to try and get in a serious week of training this next week, but we'll see how that goes with school. 

It turns out the kid I lost to last week ran a 3:58 mile yesterday.  I don't feel so bad now that he ran away from me.

10 miles 60:33

Daytona Sidewalks

I was way off on the superbowl.  Oh well.  I also spent the day eating like crap.  Oh well.  Ran the usual 10 miles today.  Oh well.  Nothing else worth mentioning.  Oh well.

10 miles 59:47

Daytona Sidewalks

After morning classes I had a 2 hour break so I snuck in a quick little 10 miler in hopes of getting in a double day.  I've been doing great lately on getting in double runs.  It was like Dec 12th when I went for a double run and realized I hadn't done one in awhile.  So I checked my logs to see just how long it had been since I had a normal double day and it had been 1 year and 364 days exactly.  Since then though I've been getting them in often and they're going well. 

PM 5 miles 30:05

Daytona Sidewalks

Got in a double run and some pullups.  Felt pretty good.  I noticed a bump on my foot on what I think is the tibialis anterior tendon.  It's kinda big but it doesn't hurt.  I'm going to wait it out and see what happens.  It's on the same leg that has the achy achilles but not the leg that has shin aches and plantar problems.  God, listen to that list of aches and pains.  Gotta love running.

Daytona Sidewalks

Did a fartlek workout of 1-2-3-4-5-5-4-3-2-1 min on with 1/2 recovery.  It's one of my staple sidewalk running workouts even though today I did almost all of it looping around the Big Tree baseball field to keep on soft surfaces.  I felt pretty crappy and run down on the warm up but as I got into the hard running stuff I felt pretty decent.  I was going around 5 min pace or a tad under for the slowest interval (the 5 min one) and was really running the shorter ones.  It was a warm day which isn't unusual for Florida but it was very dry out so all my sweat dried up on me and left me with a solid salty layer which later led to some wonderful chauffing.  But it was still a very nice day and I had no classes and have non tomorrow so I'll try and keep the complaining to a minimum.

12 miles 72:35

Daytona Sidewalks

It's a nice sunny warm day with little humidity.  I wound my way through the neighborhoods of Daytona beach for about 12 miles feeling pretty good in the process.  My mileage this week is going to end up being really high, possibly record highs depending on if I double up tomorrow and how long I workout for on Saturday.  That's good though.  I'll take next week down and that should suffice for freshening up my legs for my 5k on the 17th.  Clinical Entrance Exam is tomorrow and I feel like I'm waaaaay behind in my studies.  It could be a late night...

10 miles 60:44

Daytona Sidewalks

The morning began with 4 hours of exams for CE9 (clinical entrance exams for 9th quarter students).  It was pretty exhausting and after a big lunch it was nap time.  No double run today.  It's fine though because my mileage is 93 for the last 7 days which might be an all time 7 day high.  My alltime set week high is 92 but I think I hit like 94 in a 7 day stretch when I spent a week in Boulder because my car broke down moving from California to Florida.  That was a lot of typing to say I didn't feel it necessary nor did I have to time to do a double run.  I'm going to get on the track tomorrow so hopefully the easy day will freshen me up a bit.  I've got board part 2 review though from 8-5 Sat and Sun so we'll see what I can get done on the track. 

10 miles

Atlantic High School Track

After being in Board review all day I made it over to the track at dusk half awake and still full from an enormous late lunch.  Not exactly ideal.  The plan was to get in some speed work since the previous Saturday I raced a 10k and then Wednesday got in a long workout giving me a couple of longer stuff but little turnover.  I decided to do 5 X 1000m with the last 3 broken down to 600-400; 500-300-200; and 500-300-200.  2 min recover after the full 1000's and the next interval distance recovery after the breakdowns.  Times were 2:46; 2:46; 94, 62; 78, 45, 29; 78, 45, 29.  The 1000's felt much better than the breakdowns.  I was hoping to go fast for the breakdowns overall and really had to work to do what I did.  It was a long week and I wasn't in the best situation for running so maybe that explains the lack of speed.  We'll see.