Well, after the crap-crap-crappiest November in memory, I'm back among the living. My dear wife, giving soul that she is, decided that she should gift me with her nasty cold, which felt more like an endless mucus waterfall cascading from a heated sauna in my forehead with a side order of muscle aches. Needless to say my training took a bit of a nosedive, but by the beginning of the week I felt well enough to hit the roads once again, and thus, my mileage report for this week:
Monday 12/3 -- nada; felt it prudent to take one more day to make sure I was fully over this crud
Tue 12/4 -- 4.8 mi on mixed pavement; .5 mi warmup walk, then the balance running at an easy pace. Felt surprisingly good
Wed 12/5 -- 31 mi on spinning bike at gym, and 20 min on krankcycle. Oops...did I push it too much too soon? Felt fatigued at workout's end
Thur 12/6 -- 4.25 mi on mixed pavement. This was my experiment on adding a 2nd day (rather than 3rd day) run, and it felt pretty dang good
Fri 12/7 -- free weights and core work, with a cool down on the krankcycle
Sat 12/8 -- 10.01 miles, incl 1 mi warmup, then 9 miles on mixed, wet pavement. Longest run yet, and at mile 9 I asked myself: "OK, if you had to do 3.1 more miles right now, could you do it?" And my honest answer was, "Yes, I could." The good news was that I didn't have to, and won't, until the end of January, so I feel pretty confident in my ability to at least finish the Carlsbad half-mary in reasonable comfort.
So, dear bf friends, it's nice to be back with you all. I can see that I have much catching up to do here, so I better get to it.