Tuesday’s Run

Distance: 5 Miles

Time: 45:10 (mile 5 at 8:22)

It’s raining out tonight, and well, I decided to be a bit of a wuss and not suit up and run.  So instead, I decided to take an inventory of where I am in my training, and how I’m feeling.  In the month of November, I ran a total of 162 miles.  That’s just under 26 hours total.  My average pace for the month was 9:36.  I ran a total of 7600 feet up hill, and a total of 7700 feet downhill (total -100 feet).  I burned almost 21000 calories.  All in all, that’s a lot of running.  And I got all those interesting stats from the SportsTracks program I use with data from my Garmin.

So with all of that, how am I feeling?  Surprisingly well.  If it hadn’t been raining today, I think I would of had a great run tonight.  Oh well.  This plan I’m using is doing a really good job of not increasing my mileage too quickly.  The only nagging ache I’ve had, not really injury pain, is a tightness in my calf.  And even that isn’t every day.  I did have a stiff neck/shoulder for a week, but I think that had more to do with sleeping wrong than anything else.  Otherwise, the body is doing fine.

Curious about my mentality through all this?  Well, I have my good days and my bad…but mostly good.  There are days when I think about how long I’ll be running on event day (not race day, can’t think of it as a race…otherwise I have pace control issues) and I get a little psyched out.  And there’s the days when it’s either really cold or wet out and I have to do a double digit run at 7 or 8 in the morning…and I don’t want to get out of bed.  However, all in all my mind is still in a good place.  I’m really starting to believe that I can do this, and in under 12 hours as I need to in order to qualify for the 100 miler.  I just need to stay focused and on track.

Well, that’s about it.  Tomorrow I’ll make up for a mile or two of today’s run.  So, until then…Run on Friends!