Week ending 26FEB2023

Monday AM - dark, warmer than I am used to but windy along the canal, so I was a bit overdressed.  Tired in the legs, and I was up early (like 3AM).  4 miles slow.  

Monday evening - legs felt beat.  Just tired.  4.2 miles but mostly did laps up at the Tullamore Harriers circuit.  

Tuesday AM - the lag bug caught up to me.  I was a bit cross eyed on Monday afternoon and nearly fell asleep.  I was then back up at 1AM for a bit Tuesday morning but managed to get back down for sleep, but I did not make it out for an AM jog.  Probably for the better.  Right foot is a bit barkey, and I am not sure why.  

Tuesday evening.  Felt like crud.  The foot was pissed and it seemed to roll up into the inside of my leg, but I jogged anyway - over to the Charville Forest Castle, and then back down to Tullamore Harriers.  There were a ton of folks working out over there so I just stayed outside and jogged easy.  7.4 miles.  

Wednesday AM - really fighting the lag on this trip.  Up around 2AM and laid there for about an hour and a half before getting up and puttering around.  4.3 miles, super slow.  Right lower leg is still wonky.  Not sure what I did to it.  

Wednesday evening 4.5 miles on the canal east of Tullamore.  Smoky as usual.

Thursday AM - actually got a decent night sleep, so I think I am on track now.  Almost in time for the return to the US.  3.2 miles..

Evening - 6 miles along the canal to the Ballycowan Castle and back.  Finished up with 10 by a minute on, off.

Friday afternoon - back over in Dublin by the airport.  7.6 ... meh feeling.

Saturday:  traveled back.  Zero.  Long day.  5AM up out of Dublin, back to EWR, a few hour lay over then a delayed flight to Denver.  I think 20 hours.

Sunday - 8.8 miles.  I am jacked.  Back is messed up and the right ankle is stupid sore.  I can't tell if I wrenched my back from the travel or the running or something else.

Well, it was a good travel week but a bit messed up from a training perspective and it got ugly at the end.  50 miles on the week but I think I might be dealing with an downtime shortly.

Week ending 19FEB2023

Monday - 7.2 miles in the afternoon.  Mostly with GW.

Tuesday - windy AF.  Got out late too.  5.2 miles but with some hill repeats.  

Wednesday - snow again and chilly (teens).  Seven and change with Greg.  

Thursday - 8 miles, out along the ditch into Interlocken.  At the turn around made it a 10 x 1 minute on 1 minute off thing.  Somehow this made the run average under 8 minute pace.  Been a while since I saw any of that for a run of this length with snow and ice.  

Thursday night was open mic.  I had no intention of playing - just going over and enjoying music.  But I got handed a guitar and goaded into playing.  Oddly enough, or perhaps not, with no warm up, or thought to what I was going to play ... I had probably my best open mic set there ever.  It was fun.

Friday - six mile easy with SB (she is out visiting).  I could feel yesterday's efforts.  

Saturday - 8 miles, mostly helping EC, by jumping in on alternating quarters on her workout.  I ended up doing 12 of them in 92-93.  Not great really, but the most I have done in a year I think.  Oh yeah, it was a bit breezy.  

Back to Tullamore.  A good day of travel but not nearly as challenging as to Singapore.  I got back out on the canal.  Legs were a bit beat from yesterday and shaking off the travel but I got in 8.4.  The week actually felt like a training week too, versus an exercise week.  50 miles on the week but with two sessions of moving a bit.  

    

Week ending 12FEB2023

45 mile week.  Not great but had at least one session in there where I managed some sub six 200s, but that was a 3 mile day in a jam.

Ton of music over the weekend.  

Week ending 05FEB2023

40 mile week.  It was not great running in Singapore with the longer work days and the humidity.  I was pretty beat on the weekend as well, just trashed after the travel back,  A few pix.