Felt like popping off an 18 today. So I did.

Then I felt like ESU. So I did.

Not 100% satisfied with the pace; I was shooting for 8:40ish, but my body was stuck on 8:50ish for most of the run. Till the last 4 miles when I progressively picked it up from 8:30ish down to ~8:20.

More importantly, I was 100% satisfied in the ESU department. See French toast pic posted a while back.

63.6 miles for the week, longest of the year excluding all-star week.

"gee, I feel like running 18 " said only one person, ever.

IKR?? You should have heard the bellyaching and whining I was doing last summer and I only ran two of them shits. lol

"gee, I feel like running 18 " said only one person, ever.

 

Well OK, it was really more like I wanted to see one of those in my log. And since my name is not Mike Rossi, I could only think of one way to make that happen.

Hi OOTB,

LRB, running less is sometimes the smart decision

DaveP, nice mileage

Don't understand this:

All calories burned estimators take into account your weight, and the distance you ran. Some, more advanced, will include incline. Speed does not seem to matter, as the faster you go, the less time it takes to run that distance, so it evens out.

Then if I don't burn more calories when I run faster, what makes me so tired? It is much more demanding to race 6.2 miles than to jog them. Same amount of calories burned?  What am I missing?

Because you burned the calories in a shorter period of time - rate of calories burned per minute was higher. (You might also ask "I'm so much more tired, how come I didn't get any farther?) "But calories = energy = a force applied over a distance. You are counteracting the force of gravity (of your body weight) for a certain distance. Running burns a bit more calories per distance than walking because there is more up-down motion - the total distance you are moving your body is actually the sum of horizontal & vertical components. So for this reason there is probably a little more calories per distance for running at mile pace vs recovery shuffle. But for normal range of paces it is not too significant.

(MTA with some more stuff added)

 

 Thank you.

I thought about mentioning that I drove over to my favorite Sunday running spot, stayed in that area for ESU, and hung out for a while, so did not get a chance to load it till just now. But I figured you'd be the only one who cared. 

Woke up to a very sick puppy dog.   Poor thing is under the couch right now.  Hopefully we will get through without a trip to the e-vet.  We'll see.  In the mean time, I ran 9 on the TM and we're gearing up to watch the world cup final.