Headed over to look for the eagles near Stearns with TZ but they were not there. She jogged back home and I headed out for my run.
I bushwhacked up towards the old Varra property and then played arm chair archeologist for a bit, checking out the left over debris, foundation, matress springs, where some kids had looked to have built a fort, and wiring that come into this place that is now gone.
My exploration cost me though. I scratched up my inner thigh on some scrub brush. Not pretty on multiple counts.
I felt a bit sluggish to start, and my Achilles was hot, but I was particularly motivated to get some work in as I was not racing as I thought I might. After a few miles I decided I do a first try at the Mona-fartlek. My legs were a bit heavy from yesterday. I covered just a hair under 3 miles in the 20 minutes of the fartlek, which is not great but better than what I had did for my so called tempo yesterday.
I have been doing some efforts back to back as of late because it is working to some degree. I don’t think I am fit enough yet to crush myself on any one day (most days) that I absolutely need the recovery or time off the next day. It also takes a bit more time for the fatigue or soreness to catch up and so I am playing with trying to jump on that effort in day 2 – and often it seems to be okay. So this week, I had an effort on Monday but had a better workout on Tuesday. I had an effort yesterday and then a better workout today. I suspect that as I get fitter this may change that if I am really getting on a workout that I will truly need to recovery the next day, and maybe the day after that too.
Anyway, this is a good little workout – 20 minutes of running with 10 of punch and 10 of recovery, but not draggin’ arse recovery. It could be good to see if I can extend that distance I cover in those (I should since I ran the freakin’ half marathon at a pace faster than what I averaged today).
I am gonna go with the pedigree on the men’s marathon – Rupp, Ritz and Meb. There are a lot of guys right there that can be in the mix for those spots and there is certainly a possibility that none of those guys make the team. For what it is worth, I think all three of those guys might have the 3 fastest 10k PRs in the field (even if they are from some time ago). On the women’s side I will go Flanagan, Linden, Hastings.
