35 minutes

I ran 35 minutes yesterday morning. Nothing to write home about. Kept the pace slow and easy. Weather continues to be cool.

30 minutes

Stumbled out the door this morning and ran slow for 30 minute minutes. Weather was cool and clear. Took me a long time to warm up.

22 minutes

22 minutes of slow jogging this morning.

The rain has stopped for the time being. Sunny and cold.

It is tough to get going again. Two weeks off. It's difficult to get the "on" switch to stay on.

17 minutes

Drove over to West Valley. The club was putting on its annual Valentine's Day race. I jogged around a bit while the runners were out on the course.  Probably did around 17 minutes. Nothing big. Just enough to keep warm and to initiate a return to running.

Two weeks off

Tomorrow will be two weeks since I last ran. For a week I was under the weather.

Cold...Flu...cough...cough. Banished upstairs. Didn't miss running one bit.  Felt like CRAP!

After about a week, I finally began to feel human again but I decided to take  a whole extra week off. So as I said above. Two weeks off!

Unheard of but probably smart given my forever cold of last year.

It's been raining constantly for the past several days. My running shoes are very dry.

Banished upstairs

Okay, I have a cold.

The coughing was a warning and now I am paying the price. Cold and flu???? Chills, maybe a fever and cough, cough, cough. Lousy appetite.  Canceling coffees and coaching for at least the next several days.

I am banishing myself upstairs to the bed of pain.  I will languish there until I sleep through the night.

Back to Back 60 minutes

Friday and Saturday were uneventful. Back to back one hour runs.  I seem to be dealing with some sort of respiratory problem. Been coughing (mildly but persistently) for weeks. Not sure if it is an infection or just allergies. I have decided to call the doctor on Monday and go in and see him. I don't feel sick or have cold symptoms but something unusual is going on.

A Good AT Run

I ran for 10 minutes around the neighborhood before driving over to Forbes to meet with Jake. It was sunny but felt very cool. We then ran a warm up loop in 25:30 which frankly felt very easy. HR was up in the 130's and 140's.

I let Jake go ahead of me on the second loop giving him a 90 second head start. Then I took off attempting to run at an AT effort. I actually felt very strong but while I could see Jake up ahead, I never caught him on the out going leg. My HR was in the high 160's and low 170's and I held it there not wanting to drive it too hard.

I caught Jake at the top (he had stopped for a short rest) and without any pause headed right back down pushing into the mid 170's. My time at the top was 10:40 so I could figured that I had a good chance of running faster than the 20:55 I had run several weeks back. 

I felt good all the way down finally coming in at 20:33.

I still have a way to go before getting within shouting distance of the 20:05 I ran last year.