track fan

Did not wear a watch.  Ran very very very very (very) slow.  Felt like crap (again).  Almost didn't run, but I felt like if I am going to feel horrible anyway I might as well run.

Have meetings this afternoon, otherwise I would likely try to work from home.  

I hope you are all feeling well -- and if you have ESPN2 at your house there will be some awesome indoor track on Sunday.  I would summarize the Dubai marathon, but JakeK beat me to it ;-) -- highlights: it was FAST!!!!

AM:(9 miles, 1:31:24).  26:57wu/28:00cd.  6 x 800 w/equal recoveries.  

3:19, 3:21, 3:22, 3:21, 3:21, 3:23

Yes, I know they are slow, and I also know that my schedule called for 6-8 and I only did 6.  So, I guess I have to explain my reluctance to expound on my runs of late. Things are not going well, health-wise.  I don't know exactly what is wrong, but I am being poked and prodded a lot this week.  About 10 days ago now I got sick.  I thought it was food poisoning or a stomach virus.  I spent Martin Luther King day in bed.  I felt a little better the next day, but I still couldn't eat.  Well, it has been 10 days now and I have only been able to eat for the last day - and that is because I am taking anti-nausea meds.  I did feel good on Sunday, but then on Tuesday I realized that part of the reason I have felt good on runs is that I am about 15-20 sec/mile slower than usual (this is what happens when you run only by feel and don't have a garmin -- you don't know you are running super slow until you hit a "known" run and can gauge how fast you are relative to other times you have run that route).    I don't know if I felt like crap today because of nutrition issues (I have lost about 6 pounds over the past 10 days) or because of whatever is wrong ... but blood tests are in the works and ultrasounds are scheduled for next week.  I can't tell you how frustrating this all is.  And no, it is impossible that I am pregnant.

PM: easy 4.

I hope you are all warm, dry, and running well!!  Sorry for the depressing paragraph, I am pretty frustrated, did I say that already? 

1:04:59.  A balmy 37F today, a perfect temperature for a run!  Dean comes home tonight!  The animals and I have missed him a lot!

Happy Hump Day bloggers! 

By the way, I know my blog is boring right now ... did you get me confused with Burt?  There are reasons for the boredom ... in time all will be revealed. 

AM: (10.5 miles, 1:31:56). ~47 out and 45 and some change back.  

PM: 4 miles easy

Beautiful morning ... had to rush through the run because I had an early morning meeting in the lab on the other side of town.  Then I had a doctors appointment ... and another meeting this afternoon ... yikes what a day.

I hope you are all doing well, running fast and enjoying the winter ;-). 

2:38:53.  Yippee!  It was awesome today.  I deliberated between driving to my hilly looped dirt road or my flat trails.   I decided on flat trails, mainly just because they are closer to  my house.  It was so nice not to be pounding concrete.  I don't mind traveling to San Francisco because at least there are places to run in the city ... but lots of concrete -- not asphalt mind you, but serious hard stuff.  So, being the delicate flower that I am, I much prefer nice soft dirt.  I felt awesome.  Since I had not run longer than 2 hours in two weeks (and much less than that last week) I wasn't sure how I would feel .... but, now that I have gotten rid of the two (or one??) nasty bugs that I have been carrying around for 6 weeks I feel fantastic.  And, my legs were fresh - which they usually aren't for my long run.  

I am excited to get back to work -- training that is ;-).  

I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday!! 

So, for my running geek friends.  I was so disappointed (and worried for Greg - thankfully no one has made stupid accusations about him) about Martin Fagan taking EPO.  Martin had been training with the McMillan Elite group for about 3 years, and been coached by Greg, until he left last year.   He was the guy that "set the pace" -- all the other guys counted on Martin to push them through workouts.  I am sure it hit all of them pretty hard, on the one hand, cheaters are cheaters and they are blight on the sport.  On the other hand, I am sure many of the other athletes who have made significant sacrifices to be a professional runner (putting careers on hold while live hand-to-mouth in houses with 5-6 other athletes) can understand the pressure that Martin felt - and he was (is?) their friend.  So, there was a very nice article written about these conflicting feelings.