Week in Review - Jan 27-Feb 2

Last week was a decent week. Not great but not too terrible either. I started the week horrible because I didn't run at all on Monday. I was simply tired from work and didn't get home until nearly 7:00 p.m. so I just wasn't in the mood to go run. Tuesday, I was bound and determined to get back on track with a solid 7-8 mile run. However, it turned into a 6 because I under dressed and was too cold to continue after 6 miles. This was one of the rare times that Kimi actually handled the cold better than me. The rest of the week went well with some 7 mile and 8 mile runs. Thursday was a busy morning. We woke up and ran. Then we had to hurry to an appointment to sign papers to close on our new home!  We are both pretty excited about finally getting out of the apartment life and into home ownership.

On Saturday morning, we woke up and ate a very small breakfast so that we could head out to the trail to get in a good solid workout. It was a dreary morning on Saturday, which had me jealous of all the OMRR peeps that went to the New Orleans Rock and Roll Marathon. Anyways, we sat in the car for a few minutes contemplating whether we would be able to accomplish our goal.  We had originally planned on running a 2 mile warm up followed by 1600,1200,1000,800,600,400, with .5-.25 recovery and a cool down to finish out to 14 miles. Due to weather, we decided to simply take it one step at a time and see how far we made it. The weather held back for the majority of the workout. There was a slight mist most of the time but not enough to soak all the way through my rain jacket (at least not until after the 1k).  So we had to put our determined game faces on to finish up the final three presses. As miserable as we were (and especially my poor wife) we pressed on and finished the workout. Surprisingly enough, it turned out pretty darn good. We didn't make it to the full 14 miles like we had hoped but we did make it to 9 miles. :) Can't always do what you set out to do. We had only planned on running 8 miles on Sunday but since we didn't manage our "long run" on Saturday, we upped our Sunday miles to 11.

All in all, it was a decent week and I'm now going to springboard into the first full week of February ready to rock and roll.  *I just hope the weather doesn't jack it up this week.

Weekly Mileage = 45
1 workout