AZ Run Dad

Happy to get out for 4 miles after an afternoon on a brewery tour which was a lot of fun.

6 miles easy from work. Happy to fit this in early in the morning before the 14 hour work day.

2.85 warm up with 4 strides and drills. 4 x 1 mile 5:42, 5:46, 5:45, 5:38. 3 min jogs. I'm out of shape but I have to start somwhere. I'm happy to have gotten up and completed this one. This is just the kick in the butt I needed. It felt great to hurt and come out the other side feeling great and accomplished. This is why I run. 1 mile cooldown.

6 easy miles: 44:30. Pretty much decided I would give training another shot and work towards Boston. I think it's just under 22 weeks now. I took a break from training and while I enjoyed some parts of stress free running (and eating) I generally feel better when I'm training so I'm going to train for Boston. I've been running 35-40 miles a week for the last 8 weeks with never more than two days off in a row and long runs of 10-11 miles every week. I'm out of shape and I gained 10 pounds but I look forward to the challenge of getting back in shape. I just ran 36:07 for 10k in the same race that Jake K won here in Arizona. That was a real effort for me so that is a true indicator of where I'm at. A lot of work to be done!

8 miles today with the last 4 as a progressive tempo. My goal was 6:30/20/10/6 flat for the last 4 and to not work too hard. I was quick on the times and ended up working too hard so didn't reach my goal. I ran the last 4 in 6:26, 6:17, 6:04, 5:50. I was really working at the end. It's difficult to adjust metally to the slower paces I am running right now but I'll have to or else I'll end up working too hard every day. It felt great once again though to get some good work in.

12.5 mile long run nice and early this morning. It's relatively cold here but we've got it so much better than almost everywhere else that we are extremely fortunate. I bundled up accordingly, warmed up a little over 6 miles then went straight into 2 x 2 miles in 11:55, 11:47. I jogged for about 3 1/2 minutes between the two sets. I felt pretty good this morning and I'm definitely feeling excited about training again.