Sunday 7/13
6.7 mi @ 9:13/mi
Another HOT day and late start 😦 The goal was 7 today but I elected to err on the side of staying alive and cut it short by 0.3. The good news is that aside from being generally irritated and a little dehydrated, everything (shins, knees, etc…) felt more or less ok.
Monday 7/14
rest 🙂
This was needed.
Tuesday 7/15
rest
Ohoh! So I know that I can’t let myself fall into the “but I’m so busy today and it’s not that nice out…I’ll just get the miles in tomorrow instead” mindset, bbbuuuttt… I was just so busy today and it wasn’t that nice outside, so I will just get the miles in tomorrow instead. 
Wednesday 7/16
5.4 mi @8:24/mile
This actually felt really good. I went out a little faster than I had any business going out, but what’s a girl to do when it’s finally <500F and 500% humidity outside? Never mind that I was going downhill! ( What smarter thing to do than start a run going quickly downhill ?!?!:-) 70F, 50% humidity and a modest decline never felt so good! Positive splits be damned.
Thursday 7/17
7 mi @ 8:38/mile
This also felt reasonably good, considering 1) yesterday’s “speedy” run and 2) the fact that the temperature and humidity are again joining forces and engaging in operation Drown Dr. Trot.
Friday 7/18
8 mi @ 9:05/mile
With big weekend plans on the horizon I decided one of the two 8 mile weekend runs had to be done today. So, off we went after work…
Considering that this was the third run in a row on legs that haven’t been subject to that kind of “abuse” in a while, all went very well. The heat, humidity and hills all tried to get the best of me, but I wouldn’t have any of it. Well, maybe just a little…
Saturday 7/19
cross training and refueling…
…in DC with Dr. Allison and Sir Jack!
Today’s regime included:
- Walking through old town Alexandria
- Shopping
Anthropology’s absolute finest.
- Ice cream eating
- Swimming in a two-story pool with a current!
- Pho 🙂
Total: 27 miles
Overall this week felt good although I definitely needed the cut back. Now I don’t like needing this so early in the season, but as long as it does the trick and the next weeks go well, I’m not going to think too much of it.
Considering that work is insane, it’s hot and humid outside and each weekend somehow gets overbooked before I know it, over the next few weeks I really have to be good about making a point to:
- Get the miles in — oddly, I wedding dances and mall-walking don’t seem to count
- Eat/drink right — ice cream and beer are apparently not the same as veggies and water 😮
- Stay off my feet for more than the 4 hrs (not a type-o…and a perfectly valid excuse for being grouchy at basically whoever I want to be grouchy at) I’ve been sleeping each night
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