running: the dawn

Wow, I can’t believe I’m two weeks away from the taper.  How is that even possible?  I’ve got my highest mileage next week, then one more at 50 before backing off.  Craziness!

Let me say this:  I cannot believe that I was able to get in 50 miles this week.  After being out of town for the long weekend and not doing my long run on Sunday, I was pretty close to just chalking this week up as a failure.  But then that overly intense person that lives inside me woke up and took over.  Almost daily I would calculate and recalculate when I was going to do my running and how I was going to squeeze in all the miles I had planned.  And by daily, I mean several times a day.  Maybe even hourly.  In fact, it’s surprising that I got any work done at all!

Speaking of work, this was the first full week of teaching for me.  All my classes are up and running…which of course added to the scheduling challenges.  I couldn’t always get my miles done in the morning because I had to be to work early.  Luckily its been cool enough that the afternoon/evening runs have been delightful.

Ok, with all that as a premise…

This week’s workouts:
Sunday–Nothing, but a beautiful wedding.
Monday–6 miles on the treadmill after driving all day.
Tuesday–5 miles on the treadmill…planned all day to make up the missed 15 miler, but got distracted too many times.
Wednesday–15 fast miles
Thursday–10 & 2, it was supposed to just be a 12 miler, but I had to cut my morning run short and make it up in the evening.
Friday–12 a perfect way to end the week: running with my dad.

Total Mileage: 50

My parents are in town for the weekend (woohoo!) on their way home from their 39th wedding anniversary trip.  I was so thankful that my dad said he’d be willing to ride his bike with me this afternoon for my final 12 miles of the week.  I’m pretty sure that I would have just said forget it if it were just up to me.  He rode along with me and told me all about their trip.  It really helped the time fly by and make the week a success!  Thanks dad!!!

Just as a side note: If you look at the mileage closely, you’ll see that I did 39 miles in three days.  Now I have one day off and then a 20 miler.  Hmmmm.  59 miles in 5 days.  AND if I was going to measure my week from Monday through this Sunday (7 days) I will have run 70 miles in one week.  Insane.