Charleston Week 3

Its time to get this right. I have learned my lesson in these last two weeks. When you are exhausted you need take a rest day. This seems like an easy lesson to learn, but grinding yourself into the dirt is a difficult habit to break. I am a grinder. I enjoy working myself into a puddle and reaping the fitness benefit weeks later. Last night I ran a nice 10k in the dark with a friend from Striders, and a random ultra marathoner visiting on business. We comfortably talked about our training plans as we clipped off mile after mile at around 7:18 pace. It was nice. I need to build up my confidence to go out with the lead pack and just stick with them, but for now my focus is about getting back into really good shape and slowly getting faster. For my 6x800 meters I took to the roads for half of them and finished the last 3 on the track. Not much to say here. I tend to feel like crap running on day 2 of any week. My 800s were run @ 6 mpm or slightly under. 2 mile wo / 2 mile cd Day Three - Took Friday off. Hip Flexor was a little tight and there is no reason to not try a day off here. Day 4 wo/cd 2 miles 4.5 miles @ 7:20 pace Day 5 am easy 4 miles shakeout pm Im starting to realize how much better I feel running 90 percent of my mileage around my marathon pace or faster. Im not running a bunch of easy junk miles and then burning myself out by running everything else at my 2 mile pace. Starting to become accustomed to running consistently harder. Skipping the tempo run this week to just get a nice healthy week done without grinding myself into the ground. Racing on Saturday will be enough stress on my body.