I am either running slow this morning, or fast this afternoon.  It all depends on how much snow fell overnight and screwed up the street surface.

I decided against racing on that crap and ran 7 easy instead.  It is very cold and windy here today which was not a deal breaker necessarily, but the inch of snow (although not a lot) was enough for me to say screw the race.

Boy I have come a long way in that regard, there was a time when I would race even if Armageddon was in progress.  Now I am as finicky about racing as Morris the cat was about din' din'!

Planned to run outside, but looked at the 14 deg temp, -3 deg windchill, fresh slippery snow on the ground & more blowing like crazy through the air, and thought better of it. 7 on the treadmill, to push me over 200 for the month.

Happy New Year everyone!

Awesome, Dave! And let us all praise the TM! 

2275 is great mileage, Ric! May 2014 bring you even better and stronger miles!

Got my run/walk done around the YMCA area, after going to a doctor appointment.  Doc said my lungs were still clear, but I did have some 'nose and throat stuff" going on and also I am still coughing.  So got some meds and he said okay to run, but don't push it, just run easy. .  Nice day, about 46 degrees when I started, around 11:30 a.m., and a bit cloudy.   By the time I finished, it was sunny and 56 degrees, crazy Mother Nature. Made for some nice running, though, and I guess I got carried away, I ended up doing lots of hills - and pretty big darn hills too -  and also went for 5.1 miles, my longest run since October when I did the Wurst  Fest 5-miler.  So much for not pushing it, sorry Doc.  Still, I felt really good the whole way.    As for our weather...crazy Mother Nature!  We are heading to a high of 60 today and 65 for New Year's Day tomorrow.   So looks like I will have nice weather tomorrow at 10 a.m. when I start my 2014 race count with my first race of the year, the Cobweb Chaser 5K.

<grumbling> Good morning.

 

6.50 miles in 1:03:57 on the TM. 6.1mph (9:49 pace). Comfortable. And no pre-run fuel, except for coffee.

 

Last night, I was surprised with an invitation to a black-tie NYE event. I have nothing appropriate. I have to make a skirt, damn it.

 

I see lots o'Turkish the rest of this morning. Help me, G-d.

That's why I attend the local Nudist Club New Year's Eve party...no clothing choices.  All we wear IS black tie.   And I'll tell you what...at my age, old man that I am, for this party, I have "nothing appropriate" either!  Darn aging shrinkage and wrinkles... 

 Yeah, but do you really need a 10K paced tempo run for a marathon? 

I have never seen it prescribed which is what got my attention.  And the correlation between the two is that for most recreational runners, their tempo pace (based on Daniels VDOT charts) and 10k pace is about the same.  My tempo pace is 6:38 and my 10k pace is 6:35.

But nowhere in Daniels does he suggest or recommend a run of 6 miles at that pace for non-elites.  His tempo runs are usually run in intervals within a run, or steady state at 25 minutes minimum and a 40 minute max which is nowhere near 6 miles for most of us.