Well, I made it through another trail run this week. My assignment was five miles of trail running and I did much better than last week. I met my target goal and was not even close to being the last one back this time. I also managed to talk to some of the other runners in the group and found out some interesting things about the training.
First, all of them stated that trail running was better than track workouts...crap. They said running at the track was torture and they loved running in the woods. In my mind, these people have to be sadists because I cannot imagine anything worse than running in soft sand, all uphill, for over two miles with a timer ticking down in my head (the way I run 5 miles of trails is a 1.5 warm up lap, a 2.25 mile timed lap (my time is 20:00 minutes), and a 1.5 mile cool down lap).
Secondly, they all stated that they are running six times a week and that in the beginning, they were running five times a week like me. This is bad news for my knees and my sleep. Right now I have Mondays and Wednesdays off. Monday is an obvious rest day because of the long run on Sunday. I also told coach I needed Wednesdays off because I have night court on those days. If he takes away Wednesday, that means I will be getting up at 5:00a.m. to run on Wed, Thurs, Fri, and Sun. Piss. Anyone who knows ole Rob knows that I love sleep and that this scenario will suck.
Anyways, I finished the dastardly trail run and rested on Wednesday. As noted above, I woke up at 5:00 am on Thursday to complete my six mile run and I woke up at 6:00 am on Friday to complete my three mile run. Wow what a difference one hour makes as far as temperature goes. Thursday's run sucked because of the distance, and today's only sucked because of the temp. I wish Nike would make a knife-like device for a shirt to cut the air in front of me when I am running in that humid mess. It seemed like it was just as hot this morning as it was during this past Sunday's death march. By the time I finished the first mile of my run my clothes were sopping wet.
Oh well, I got the runs done and am dreading the seven miler I have planned for Sunday. I am going to try my best and get up at 5:00am to get the run over with during a cool part of the day...running in 90 plus degree weather is nuttier that squirrel .... it's just crazy. The four miler for Saturday should be no problem as I will more than likely complete it at the Y after I lift weights again. Hooray for spending two hours at the Y on a beautiful Saturday again. I will post results on Monday during lunch.
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