March 16 to April 3

After a 6 day break for traveling and recovering I put in 10 workouts in the next 19 days.  It took a while to get restarted. My legs have been  really heavy, and it takes 25-30 minutes of work before I feel like I’m running with any fluidity.  The pattern has been pretty consistent.  After I get rolling I begin to run 50 to100 stride Speed Segments.  The total distance ranges from 2.5 miles to 4 miles with from 12-20 Speed Segments timed  buy my Garmin between 6:30 and 8 minutes each.  The runs range from 35-50 minutes.  At the end I usually feel quite invigorated and ready to do more but stop out of an abundance of caution.  A late winter, lingering sinus infection has suppressed motivation to get out the door.  But having Gracie to take for a run every day has definitely helped. I bailed out of  the Captain Zen 5K on Sunday because I had done a wearing 5 mile effort on Saturday, and besides we lost power for over 24 hours.  😇😎

I have been doing a weak job of keeping track of my statistics for the past 3 weeks. But I think things are about normal. I’m getting good rest and eating pretty healthy.  I gained 5lbs while I was on my break but I have gotten rid of most of it.

So,, I have 2 weeks of maintaining base and a week in Ireland. Then I go into serious training for the nationals in July.!