Monday - run 5.4 miles

Nothing fancy. Easy run of 5.4 miles @ 8.29 pace. It felt slower than that. I actually thought it might be at 9.00. That's a good thing.

Week Total - 35 miles

Only my second best week ever. And I feel like I had quite a bit more in me. hmmmm.

Sunday - run 4.5 miles

Ran late tonite so it had actually been about 46 hours since I had run last, so I got in a pretty good rest. Felt really good for 3.5 so I decided to kick it the last mile and see what I had in me. Never looked at the watch until I finished and realized that at mile 3.5 instead of clicking the lap button I clicked the stop button! #@%*&. I feel relatively confident it would have been under 6.45 possibly under 6.30. Felt fantastic! Another day.

Saturday - 0 miles

I felt stoked after last nites run. I wanted to get in a short run today, 2-3 miles, but never got around to it. Probably just as well as my legs were tired.

Friday - run 12.8 miles

AM) 5.4 miles - Got up early and ran (I never do that). It felt awesome. About 68 degrees. Probably my best run, at least in terms of distance and how I felt the entire way. Already my best week this year.

PM) 7.4 miles - Went out for another run about 11 PM to get in my long run. Felt really good most of the way. And of course felt great when I finished. Feeling really good and not having any problems with my IT band. Foam rollers are the bomb! Thanks Charlie.

Thursday - run 3.3 miles

3.3 miles on the YMCA treadmill. Did a couple of quicker intervals during the runs. Mile stretches at ~8 min pace and last half at 6.44 pace. I won't win any races with these paces, but I also don't want all of my runs to be 9+ either.

Wednesday - run 5.6 miles

Did two laps around the Regional Park trail, 2.3 miles each. I rested for about 10 minutes between laps, but did both of them under a 10 min/mile pace with the 2nd one faster than the 1st. I also ran all of the uphills. Both of these were the goals of the run so I accomplished both. Then ran 1 mile around the road.

Tuesday - run 2.0 miles

Y treadmill. Not worth mentioning.

Monday - run 5.0 miles

I ran the miles I was supposed to. It was raining, so getting the run in at all is an accomplishment. I did singles on the treadmill at the YMCA. Supposed to be an easy 5, so that's exactly what I made it.

Sunday - run 2.1 miles

I ran in the heat of the day b/c I knew I wouldn't run later (and I didn't). I know myself quite well. The 2.1 miles puts me at 21 for the week. My best week this year. But not near where I need to be.

Saturday - 0 miles

Jake's birthday, hot, cake and ice cream. All excuses but I just didn't run. I actually got off the couch for another nite run about 10 PM and instead of walking to the closet to get my clothes (my intention when I got up) somewhere along the way I decided I would rather eat cake and ice cream. Which I did. And I was done. Zero miles for the day!

Friday - run 3.25 miles

Nite run of 3 1/4 miles. Just mileage.

Thursday - run 4.5 miles

Ran 4.5 miles on the treadmill at the YMCA. Intervals, 1/2 slow, 1/2 fast (for me). Ran my last fast half under 3 mins. I haven't done that in a while. I'm interested to see how fast an all out mile would be, but I don't want to hurt to find out. I'm such a wimp!

Wednesday - run 5.2 miles

Only had 5 miles on the schedule and left the house hoping to run 6 in an effort to make up my lost mileage from Tuesday. As I normally do, I took off for my run at 12.56 PM, the hottest part of the day. I cut my run short so I wouldn't burst into flames. Come to find out the heat index was about 101 today. Whew!

Tuesday - run 1.1 miles

I ran a mile with Jake in the stroller (trying in vain to get him to go to sleep). Just didn't make it back out for another run.

Monday - run 4.8 miles

Ran 1.5 miles during the day and didn't get in the next run 'til 11.30 PM. I've lost my Garmin and my Timex broke, so I ran a 0.7 route I thought I knew 5 times. Turns out it was just over 0.65, so I came up a little short on my day goal of 5 miles. No biggie, I will make it up tomorrow.

Sunday 6/14 - Run 6.1 m - Weekly Total - 11.4 miles

Took the family to Disney World this past week and didn't get much running in. Was at 20 miles for the previous week before we left on Sat. morn. to go to Disney.

Running is going well. My IT band is feeling better every day/run. My Plantar Fascia is killing me.

Went to a showing of "Running the Sahara" in Chattanooga on May 27th and met Charlie Engle. I ended up skipping the movie and talking with him for about an hour. And in true "me" fashion, came home and signed up for a trail marathon.