Back to the working week after a busy weekend. I'm not sure which has been busier lately - my weeks or weekends...
Saturday morning was a short "long" run. I'm on a step-back week on my training plan, so it was only a 6 miler...I'm going to start doing that distance mid-week now, so I hate calling that a long run. However, it was nice to be able to sleep in a bit and not run as long on a chilly morning. I'm starting to get my pace back after last week's blood donation...I'm probably about 90% there now.
The best thing about the weekend run? When I got back I just plugged my Garmin into the computer and the data was uploaded into RunningAHEAD! Yeah Garmin! Yeah RunningAHEAD!!!
I think my push-up stamina has also been impacted by the blood donation. I went to do my Week 6 exhaustion test both Saturday and this morning, and I was only able to do 41 push ups. OK...if you had told me 4 months ago that there would be a time where I would say, "I could only do 41 push-ups this morning...what happened?" I'd thought you were crazy. So...I'll continue to do the exhaustion tests a few times this week until I get back up to the high 40s/low 50s.
This morning we had a pretty big snow for these parts. I knew this was coming - and I knew I was supposed to be in Northern Virginia today - so I started early. By 5:30am I was shoveling (a few hours later Sherry has told me she can't even tell that I shoveled!), and it took me about an hour and 20 minutes to get to the Fitness First in Reston, VA. I did my easy 3 miler on the 'mill - 32:07, 146 avg HR. Now it's off to work.
The rest of the week looks like this - 6 mile pace run tomorrow, 3 mile easy run Thursday and 11 mile long run on Saturday morning. Hopefully, I'll be able to get back running outside by the weekend. I don't own a pair of YakTrax and I don't plan on getting them for the 2-3 times a year that it snows in the DC area each winter.
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You're the 2462487236th person to praise this RunningAHead thingy. I'm going to have to check it out now . . .
There's a lot to love about RunningAHEAD. I originally went there for the Running Log (I was using Cool Running, but they went to Active dot com which wanted us to pay for the same things that were free on Cool Running and RunningAHEAD...). However, I started to get addicted to the Forums and the Pace Bunny (1,000 mile User Group Forum). Anyhow, I'm not there as much anymore - I now can't even keep up with reading your blog, how am I going to keep up on the Forums there too???
RunningAHEAD rules! I, like you, Mike, cannot keep up with the forums or the blogs of fellow bloggers like yourself, or even updating my own for that matter. Was simply taking up too much time. Nice to see your training is going well!
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