AZ Run Dad

12 mile group run at South Mountain. Felt blah today but that's what I expected. South Mountain is always tough no matter how slow I go. 7:10 avg.

8 miles easy then 6 strides. I'm always on a tight schedule so it was nice to sleep a little bit later and run as the sun was coming up.

Got up super early for a workout, made it outside and felt horrible. Lack of motivation, forefoot pain, funny stomach. Perfect storm. I made it 1/4 mile before a started walking back to my house. I jogged a little on the way back to make it back to bed quicker. Fell back asleep and felt good about it.

10 miles with VO2 Max workout: did the workout that I failed to do yesterday. Motivation has been tough the last few days. It was mentally tough to get going but I made it through and had a pretty good workout. I warmed up 2.85 miles with drils and strides then did 4 x 1 mile on the road with 3 min recovery jogs. Splits were 5:13, 5:11, 5:13, 5:07. Tough workout and I was extremely happy to get through it. Hopefully this will lead to some stronger motivation. 

10 miles around the neighborhood. About 7:15 avg.

8+ miles then 6 x 100ish strides.

8 miles mostly easy with 8 x 15-20 sec surges in the last few miles with untimed long recoveries.  I was going to do Rock and Roll San Diego tomorrow but my wife got sick and ended up in the hospital for a couple days so we obviously scratched that one. We have to decide on the Gary Bjorklnad Half (June 21) in the next couple days.