FRUSTRATED

So I got this email from my coach on Wednesday.

“If you are racing the 10-miler on Saturday plan on 5-6M today, and "just" 3-5M on Friday. After all, all that matters is how fast you run on Saturday, not getting an extra 4-6 miles in this week.”

I took that to mean, take Thursday off.

At 1 PM on Thursday he sent this message.

"Thursday: 9-10 miles. 3M easy warm-up. 3 x 1-mile on flat terrain @ 10-mile race pace effort. Easy 1/2 mile between. 2-3M easy cool-down."

After questioning him on if this was for the people doing the 10 mile race he said drop it down to 6-7 miles with just 2 x 1 mile repeats. I thought that was intersting, since 4 of the 5 people he sent the workout to ARE running the race.

If I did most of my runs in the evening, this wouldn’t be a problem. However, I like to do my main runs in the morning (except on Tuesday’s when I train with the team). Normally, I don’t have much planned in the evenings and I could fit this in. However, tonight Kinsey had a program at church where she sang a few songs then had an ice cream social. I promised her that I’d take her while Amy stayed home with Katie. By the time we got home it was 8:30. I suppose I could have strapped on my shoes after that and still gotten this workout in, but I didn’t.