NEW LIFE-GOAL

I’ll say it’s kind of nice having a cutback week coincide with our first significant snowfall. I don’t mind the snow, but it’s kind of like when I first start base-building – it takes few days to wrap my head around it. Yesterday’s run was tough, mentally – today’s was much better.

One of the problems with the snow is that all the paved trails in Hyland Park are not plowed. So rather then being able to run a longer loop through the park, I basically have to run out-and-back. And even that is shorter than “normal” so I have to add on here and there. I don’t know what it is about adding on, but it’s a mental drain. I’d rather just run a 10-mile loop than 9 miles with a make-shift mile added on at the end.

Anyway, I made it 11 miles this morning. Technically I’m still on my cutback week -tomorrow will be my last day. Instead of running 15 miles I’ll run about 12 miles, which will bring my rolling 7-day total to 57 miles.

Last Friday I went to a party for a bunch of my former co-workers. My former VP is a runner (I’m still convinced that’s why I was hired) and after talking with him I came up with a new life-goal; to run more miles per week than hours I work per week. So if I work 40 hpw, I should run 40+ mpw. Granted, he’s a VP and I’m an analyst, but he was talking about working 50-70 hpw. No thanks.

Quote of the day;

“Last year my problem in Berlin was with the last part of the race, I decided to run only endurance and I stopped running speedwork completely. Since last year I was just focused on endurance, three hours, three-and-a-half-hour long runs.” – Haile Gebrselassi after his 2:04:26 WR in Berlin this year