4.11 11.5 miles total outside. First 4.25 miles by myself with a nice effort--splits were 6:37, 6:25, 6:04, 5:39, last 400 in 80--26:05 total. I then rested for a few minutes and ran approximately 7.25 around New Castle in a very easy pace with some people from work.
My legs feel beat from last week, but not horrific. I feel decent all things considered.
4.12 3.5 miles treadmill AM at 2% incline in 27 minutes. 5 miles PM treadmill (2% incline) 37:30.
This was a recovery day. I need to stop going faster toward the end of every run--it is ridiculous so I am pleased I held back today.
4.13 6 miles total. Treadmill at 2% incline. 1.5 mile warm up. Then I did a hodge podge workout--my legs are toast from last week. 2 by 800's, 4 by 400's, 1 by 800, 2 by 400's. 60 seconds rest between each one. Track equivalent times were 2:28, 2:27, 72, 71, 71, 71, 2:27, 72, 71. 1.5 mile cool down.
I felt in control, but my legs were very heavy. No matter what I do this week, I am going to keep the miles down. I have been training very hard and I need to back off mileage-wise.
4.14 10.5 miles nice and easy around New Castle.
4.15 OFF
4.16 4 miles outside in 27:39 (AM). 8 miles outside (PM) in 54:31.
4.17 5 miles AM in 40 minutes. My legs are feeling so much better. I really have torched them the last month. 3 miles outside pm easy.
56.5 miles total for the week. Recovery week all the way.
As a youth, I ran, yet I did not exist in a sense. 19 years passed. Today, I exist in one sense because I must run. Perhaps I run to escape the futility of my existence. Perhaps not. In either case, this blog, or whatever it is, will serve to chronicle my training as a runner, my development as a man, and ultimately my demise as a human, because all things pass, fade, retreat into the horizon--and while we run, as we run, the mirage that is the shimmering, glimmering future continues to assert itself just out of reach. And yet, as this picture up above connotes, it may still be beautiful. And so the question may be what is IT? What is it? What is IT?
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