"that time was abysmal",7/22-7/28 recap

Quoting yourself in the title is the sign of a mind that is truly lost.Actually im just referencing batman begins. in case you cant tell i am significatnly sleepy due to no nap but rather several hours of olmypic watching. Right now im trying to not watch the results of the nighttime swimming that already happened. phelps wasnt too good in the trials so well see. The NBC coverage starts at 8 so im trying to wait until then. Of course theyll prob wait till 9 or something to show those races- if they do that im just gonna look at results.

ANYWAY, i did a "race" yesterday. It was "terrible" lol. Actually it was fairly fun and medium hard but sooooo slow haha. It was at Hammond HS and the course was quite good. And by good i mean hilly and trails in the woods with little stream crossings and logs etc- it was fun- reall y a perfect first race back- i believe its been about 10 months since i did a race yeesh- although i could have forgotten one. So started out after a solid 2 mile WU in about 5th place behind a pack of fairly good Hoco HSers i think- maybe young college idk? Ran along at at good rate the first 800 or so was just around a big field then we went into the woods. 1-2 more people passed me in the first mile and i started checking the watch and looking for the mile mark. 4:57(obv not),5:29(hm it should be here somewhere),6:04(oof there it is- haha). Of course it didnt get any faster from there as the second mile had one fairly serious hill in it and more importantly i was running as fast as a badly injured slug by this point. Another guy or two passed me in this mile which was covered in a scintillating 7:10. Obv i was unconcerned with the time at this point and was just looking for a way to get lost or something. Actually i was tired and moving slow but it wasnt horrible obv. The third mile proceeded along- i actually passed someone(who stopped to walk twice) and finished in 21:07. Obviously a fairly long way from 16s(or 17s) haha. Actually got through a 800 wd and then left wet footprints on the parking lot as i walked to the car barefoot because i was so drenched heh.

Today ran w keenan 6ish miles at the l res trail. We basically resolved the fact that there is no dry river crossing unless the water is very low then it could be doable. Its prob best to just plosh thru the river and do the runs- thats what we used to do. My knee is doing fairly well- my left heel has actually been sore i think its from the comboination of running in unaltered new red shoes thrusday am w patty,race and then run the next am. Its getting better tho at least i should know how to mnanage that ive only had it for 10ish+ years heh.

So i thought i would try to do a little recap each week on here to make it a little easier to see larger blocks of time(and of course that means i will do it this week and then never again lol)

So this week was solid except for the stinky race(which i obv get a pass on- itll be a more accurate measure in 10 days for the 2 mile)

42 miles,8 runs, 1 workout- 10x1:00/2:00 jog,1 semi race 5kXC 21:07

Goal for next week- 40-45 miles,2 workouts(12x400 84,3-4x1600 6:00-6:05 +1 long run 8 miles)