Good morning all.

Got it scotty!

Slept in will crank out my quality this evening.  I have actually found it nice to change out mornings for evening and then back.  It gives me a little extra rest before particularly hard workouts which is sometimes very helpful.

lily progression runs teach you pace discipline and also test your mettle, you should give it an honest shot.  It does beg the question of why you even bother with plans because you never follow them.  lol

Argh!!!! You're right, as always. I'll try to keep it in mind. I'll honestly try. Thanks! :-)

I'll honestly try. Thanks! :-)

I had a 6 easy plus 5 x 5 minutes at tempo pace run this past spring and it was all I could do not to die from boredom from miles 3 to 6, gah!  So I know what you mean, but learning to hold back is as important as hitting race pace.

Enjoy running fast Moon!

You are putting a nice little streak together Marj! 

My legs are feeling fantastic. Yay. I'm hoping that it doesn't rain this evening. I want do go to the CrossFit class on the Greenway. My plan is, weather permitting, to go to the class, then go to the gym to serve an hour on the AMT or the ArcTrainer.

 

How can you do two workouts in one day? I just don't have that type of energy. Ah, to be young again...

If you would temper your 'normal' run pace you could!

(only speaking form experience here...)

 

I will go ahead and disagree with that.  At this point the speed you have attained is yours to keep and you only need to strategically place your high mileage week and race tuneup run.

 

You are not too far removed from running a marathon so you have the endurance.  Get your issues worked out but do not give up on having a great race just yet.

To add, don't give up on having a great race until you are deep into the race and shit just isn't gelling. At that point adjust for a strong rest of the race.

No stress or harm in doing that, especially after I watched elites drop out like a swarm of flies when the race didn't go their way at the Woodlands HM.

 

Woo!  sweet!

Now for the long long sleepless nights! now that will impact training!  and it is all worth it!

+1!   But Andrew has already been through it once, so he's no newbie. He'll do fine, I'm sure. Welcome to the world, little Brrita!

Sly, MP is normal run pace, right? Okay, I'll try sticking to that pace when I'm not doing speedwork. 

My little sister (who's 3 inches taller than me) is here to visit. She's staying over for supper. She was kind enough to offer to replace me at work so I could do my run early. I didn't get my whole 12 miles in, I felt I'd be taking advantage of her. But I did do 10, at 7:52 overall pace. 2 miles easy, 2 at just under MP and 6 at, or around, MP. I'll run 4 recovery miles later this evening.

Yep, Brrita arrived Tuesday afternoon (4:16PM). We went in to the hospital again to check things out and they admitted her. Got things rolling around noon when they broke her water, and they gave her an epidural around 1. Yeah, that's the wrong order that it should be done. Three hours later my second daughter entered the world. Here's Hope Susan: