Workouts this week: Dec. 10-16

Monday: Off
Had a weird day. Too many feelings today.

Tuesday: Junk miles
I guess it was supposed to be speed work today. But I didn't wanna. So I did 5 junk miles. Indoor track. Super blah.

Wednesday: Mile repeats
More indoor track. Mile warmup. Stretching. Some drills in the gym hallway. Mile repeats. (Harder than I wanted it to be)

7:08, 7:01, 7:04, 100 meter recovery between. I'd be happy with a 5K this pace—but it would take a miracle to make that happen. (or a really good taper and some adrenaline).

Looked at the last time I did them—reps were a hair faster, but with more rest between. Hoping less rest toughens me up some.

Thursday: Running off calories
We had a holiday luncheon. It was a buffet and I ate chocolate lava cake, a apple pie brownie and a fruit crumble. I needed to run off some calories.
The usual 5 miles at 9 minute pace.

Friday off
I took today off. I had vegan cheese pizza for dinner and napped.

Saturday tempo
I really didn't want to run today. It finally stopped raining, but I just didn't want to go. (Which is probably every time I run.) I had thought maybe a 5 mile tempo. But then I decided I'd do a warmup, a 3 mile tempo and then cool down for a total of 5 miles.

I did a 1/2 mile warmup and then tried to find 8 minute mile pace (half marathon pace), but ended up at 7:30 pace, which was too fast. Mile 2 I found half marathon pac, 8 flat, (and then needed a 10 second break so I stopped very briefly), and back on to mile 3 at 7:40 pace. Then 1.5 miles cool down. So had trouble finding pace today.

Sunday long run
Today, I got out the door for the run just fine. There was no dread. I knew it was Sunday. The sun was shining—it was time to run. Only I got to mile 3 and felt like I had nothing in the tank. I ate some honey stingers and didn't think I'd get to 5. I got to 5 and told myself just to get to 7 and then eventually I did get to 10. I didn't do any more. I just felt like i had no energy. I ate a big breakfast. I thought I filed right. It didn't hurt. But I did it. I'm glad I gritted out. And it's cool that I can grit it out. So proud of myself for finishing. Not sure why it was hard.

I miss running with friends. I've been running so much solo lately. I ran the 5k with people (no one I know) and then I ran with Matt Nov. 25. That's it. I need to recruit friends.

Miles this week: 30
5 runs, 2 workouts