October 20th- October 26th

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self." - Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"

Seemed like the perfect quote for this week.  Spend the first half the week still watching Don's dogs and the back half of the week going to Phoenix to help Neal run the Javalina 100.  Will only be home on Wednesday which means over the last 3 weeks Paula and I will only see each other for about 3 days total between her travel and mine.  Sucks....  bad planning on our part.

Monday:

10:30 AM: 11.5 miles averaging 7:40pace.  Easy mid morning cruise between meetings on the Highline Canal trail from Don's house again. Nice out and back. Wind was nasty today and legs are pretty heavy as well. Basically 45mins out then ran back.  Ready to go home tomorrow afternoon.  I will only be home for about 36 hours before flying out to Phoenix Thursday morning but I am ready to be home.

4 PM: Was planning on lifting this afternoon in Don's garage gym but wasn't feeling it so just jumped into the sauna instead for 20mins.  These sauna sessions should pay off this weekend in Phoenix.

Tuesday:  

7 AM:  8 miles averaging 7:40pace.  Easy miles pre-work from Don's house on the Highline Canal yet again. Last run down south before heading back home this afternoon after a bunch of online job interviews. Super chill run and it was 31 degrees out this morning. Winter is coming.

-- Followed this up a few hours later with 20mins in the sauna.  

Finally back home for a day and half...  Missed this girl and of course Paula too.  

Wednesday:

6:45 AM:  9.2 miles averaging 6:55pace.  

20 min warm up

6x3 min fast/1 min easy think half marathon working down to 10k effort on these.

20 min cool down

Felt better than I was expecting. Might have pushed a little bit to hard on some of these for after the 5th interval I stopped for a few seconds dry heaving. LOL.... Been a long week and ready to head to the desert early tomorrow morning.  

  

Thursday:  

-- super early flight to Phoenix this morning.  Got up at 2:30am so we could leave by 3:30am to make it in time to the airport.  Normally I don't go 2 hours early for early flights but glad I did today, security was really slow this morning, not well staffed.  Guessing that is due to the government shutdown.

Noon:  9.75 miles w/ 900ft of vert averaging 8min pace.  Easy jog in the mid day heat on the Javalina course. Small loop from the Pemberton trail going over to the Four Stage area and back. Struggled a little bit with the heat even though I did some heat training but was fine. Going to be a fun weekend!

Friday:

9 AM:  4.5 miles averaging 10min pace.  Hoka Javalina shakeout run from the start/finish line. Ran the loop with the Deathmarch crew. Good times!  There was about 500-600 people there this morning.

Saturday: 

11 PM:  19.1 miles w/ 1200ft of vert averaging 18:30pace.  Pacing Neal one lap at Javalina 100... he got it done! We had a lot of issue for him to work through during the night and the next morning. I will leave those stories for him to tell since they are not mine to tell but he did learn something about himself, at least I hope he did.

Sunday:  

Rest day for the most part since I was up all night either pacing or crewing.  Neal did not get done until around 10:30am this morning and it was a few hours after that before we got back to the house.  Rest of the day was wasted laying around trying to stay awake so I could sleep some tonight before heading to the airport super early tomorrow morning to fly home.  

Total Weekly Numbers

The week started out great but fell off quickly with the lack of sleep from Wednesday night onward.... I don't think I got more than 4 hours a night from Wednesday night until I got home on Monday night.  I was also supposed to do 2 laps with Neal on Saturday night but only did 1 lap so I was short 19 miles this week, but that is okay since it would have been mostly 19 miles of walking with some short jogs in there.  I have 5 more hard weeks of training for CIM marathon before the taper.  To be honest I don't feel like I am even close to being in the shape I need to be in to hit my A goal of sub- 2:44 but will go out there anyways and give it a shot.  Could be a huge disaster but that is part of the fun of this sport.