Running For Trevor

6.5 miles in the rain, 8:22 pace.

Weights:  Leg day.  I didn't push too hard but it felt good to work the little leggies.

7 mi on the riv trail with AmberD, 8:03 pace.

10 miles in Salem with Jen & AmberD, 7:25 pace.  Track+road+trail+grass

The girls were doing a track workout.  I had an eyelash malfunction on the way, nearly wrecked, and spent 15 minutes on the side of the road digging my fake eyelash out from underneath my contact.  By the time I arrived they were almost done with the workout so I just jogged jubiously around in circles.  My watch somehow clocked a 6:36 mile while I was chasing Jen down to talk during her cooldowns probably.  Jen hit her 2:42's for her 800's and Amber hit her 6:35 miles.  I hit a wall hard and had to pray to the running god's just to finish 10 miles.

Slept in again and missed weights.

6.5 mi on the river trail with the Ambers.

Hilly route in Salem with Jen and AmberD, 7:27 pace.  Started slow and finished with a 6:49 mile.  Jen is on fire and I'm having a hard time swallowing the fact that I just really can't help her train for CIM right now.  But I need to do what is best for me.

The incredibly sad thing is this used to be an easy run for me and today I was literally dying.  I'm into being authentic so I'll just state that I basically have every classic sign of overtraining right now.  I probably have all year in hindsight.  

Not recovering from workouts ever

 not sleeping well at night 

work/school/life stress elevated.  

Oh not to mention basically peaking for 3 years straight without a single real break. ha!  So overtrained.

Thus a decision must be made by me as to whether I want to weather the storm and settle for being a hobby jogger for the rest of my life.  Or make an intelligent decision and take time off of running.  If I want to save my body and attempt to compete again (which of course I do at some point) my disordered brain will make the correct choice.

I am planning to run St. George marathon because clearly I'm a complete and utter idiot.  Just running with a friend trying to hit 3:35.  After that I have a plan that includes a  3 x 5 foot rubber room, handcuffs, and A LOT of netflix.  

30 minute upper body weights

7 miles on the river trail with the Ambers, 9:01 pace. My sista Amber was really sore from her flag football debut...I was jogging circles around her.

4.5 mi wu.  I decided to do this little race with Amber & Jen.  Jen needed a tempo run for her CIM training and Amber wanted a nice little STG tune up.  I did not want to run alone so this seemed to fit the bill.;)  I did not register because I did not really plan on racing.  I was just there for moral support.  Turns out the race was way smaller than I anticipated.  They bussed us up to the start.  We rode up to the 10k start and then jogged down to the 5k start.  It was a gradually downhill course so I thought I could maybe break 20.

I kind of like racing without any pressure.  I let Amber go out in front and ran a 6:23 first mile, I caught and passed amber at 1.5 and encouraged her to stay with me.  mile 2 was 6:25, and the last mile was 6:22.  I stopped after 3 miles because I wasn't registered and wanted to push Amber.  I felt pretty good physically but got so dizzy in the last mile I was afraid if I didn't slow down I would pass out.  This weird brain fog happens to me whenever I run fast lately.  Oh well it was good to push myself since I've just had no desire at all to move fast lately.

3 mile cooldown in the rain.