Honeymoon of Eating Has Ended

Today's Run: 10.16 miles through Bath (work)
Time finished: 81 minutes, 10 seconds (7 minutes, 59 seconds per mile)
Type of run: easy - relaxed effort
Miles this week: 10.16

40 and rain is not an easy thing to run through. Conditions are near ideal for a long run - no wind, light rain, cool temps to keep the body regulated - but wearing heavy clothes that got heavier with each mile made maintaining pace more difficult. All in all it was a good run, though, and the longest run I've done directly from work.

This weekend was a crazy one, most of it having nothing to do with running except for the fact that it cut into my week's plan. I was aiming for 40-45 miles and got around 36. The successful 4-miler on Thursday helped to offset that disappointment.

My goal this week is to hit around 45 miles, possibly getting an interval workout of some sort mixed in Wednesday. The weight I worked hard to shed over the last two weeks has been negated somewhat, but I'm hoping the next several days will put me right back on track. Getting myself below 190 for mid-December would be really ideal for running and non-running purposes.

It's also important for me to really up the mileage this week because of the upcoming schedule - six days of Bowdoin College work (lunch time cut drastically), dance show tech week, the show itself, and finally the hectic travel that is Christmas. I am going to have to be inventive in how I get my runs in so I can maintain my conditioning. I am hoping to pull off a good time at the Bangor Epic 5K (December 27). If I can pull off a good time at that point, then mission accomplished.

For now, I'll focus on this first week and racking up the mileage as much as possible with putting myself at risk of overuse injury. I still need to burn all those Thanksgiving meals off...