Better than ever!

Running is going so much better. I'm coming back, I think. Since I wrote the last blog, I have run and cross trained six out of ten days. The remaining four days consisted of three days of cross training, and one day of rest. Those six days of running were even better because three of them were at my regular easy pace, one was at recovery, and two were progressive, going way beyond my easy pace. I mean, WAY beyond. Especially today.

Today's run went something like this:

5 min @ 8:34
5 min @ 8:20
5 min @ 8:06
5 min @ 7:54
5 min @ 7:42
5 min @ 7:30
5 min @ 7:19
5 min @ 7:09
5 min @ 6:59
5 min @ 6:49
5 min @ 6:40
5 min @ 6:31
5 min @ 6:23 (Olympic Trials qualifying pace)
6 min 15 sec @ 6:15
3 min 45 sec @ 6:23 (Again, if I could run this pace for 26.2, I would be the happiest person alive. Ever.)
5 min @ 6:31
5 min @ 6:40
5 min @ 6:49
5 min @ 6:59
5 min @ 7:09
5 min @ 7:19
5 min @ 7:30
5 min @ 7:42
5 min @ 7:54
5 min @ 8:06

Total: 17.35 miles, 2:05:00, 7:17 average pace

This run today gives me a total of 43 miles this week, definitely different from the last few weeks. The last time I ran this many miles in one week was the week after Mother's Day...when all this crap started. I mean, look at my last 2 months of running, starting May 19, by week--

19.2
19.2
9.2
1.3
10.6
11.3
5.6
28.6
28.1
36.7
and this week, 43.1

Pretty terrible, considering I was running at least 50 miles a week every single week for 3 years. :(

Anyway, hopefully that's all behind me now. I'm going to take it easy, do whatever I want, until I officially decide I want to race something. I don't know when that will be, but I just want to enjoy running again before I commit to something.