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41:36 today at home big neg split.  Felt good.

10 miles 109:34

35:23 - 5 miles

34:10 - 5 miles

Weather was awesome, cool and sunny little wind.  The wind though mild was into me on the way back which was great seeing it was a neg. split.  Need start to rest up for Toledo.

6 miles outside in the Tecumseh area 7:07 avg.

Tired today probably lack of sleep and not to motivated to run on easy days with the marathon around the corner.

3 at 8.3 with some 3 incline throughout. 

10 tempo tomorrow with G then taper for next week.

Lasalle with G this morning, weather was perfect nice and cool with little wind.  We wanted to run 109ish so a bit like a tempo run.  G had a stitch and I decided to keep a good pace going.

5 - 33:59 - 6:45 avg

5 - 33:07 - 6:40 avg

107:06 - 6:42 avg

My garmin was not working with the proper pace and time but I knew it was keeping track of the proper miles and calculating the the right pace when I hit the split.   I wonder if it was working that I would have been able to give a little kick so I could have run a sub 107.

G although did not eat enough for breakfast and had a stitch and still ran just under 109.  I would love to break 107 this year at the Crim only problem is the humidity and the hills.

4 on the TM this morning, G could not make it in the am and I was a bit hung over from a wine charity so I decided to do a quick 4 before church.  What a perfect morning for a marathon.  Ran well this week need to rest up for Sunday's race.

8 miles 7:15 avg.

windy but very mild close to 70 which seems like 80 compared to what we are used to.  I am hoping the wind is not a huge factor this weekend in toledo.

todd

rest

Tecumseh run.  Wind says 34km and it felt at least that if not more.  I am concerned I won't be able to handle wind like that for 26.2 miles on Sunday.  Today I did not try and pick up with the wind or go too hard into the wind, I avg. 7:21.  45:37 which is slower than I would want to be for the first 10k of a marthon.

Need to chill and just go for it Sunday.

6.2 - 40:06 TM at Lifestyles

Little bit ticked because I can't run the marathon Sunday, number of reasons.  Looked at the weather and it looks terrible anyways.  Bit of a cold last night from the lack of sleep and lots of patients have been sick. 

Won't allow myself to be sick.

Made my training program until Mississauga on May 11th, wow, I'm hard on myself, up for the challenge.

all 3 kiddies this morning, snuck 4 miles on the TM when Elliot was sleeping.  8.4, 3 mins then 1 min incline avg 4, ran the last minute hill at 10.  Total time was 28:30

Took Julian and Sadie to the gym, did a quick 6 miles still fighting a cold, sucks.  Tough week, glad I am not running Toledo sick tomorrow.  Will attempt a long run tomorrow with G.

13 miles total today, 8.5 at the gym with G, he did not want to run in the snow etc this morning.  I was not into it, ran 2 easy slower than ever 7.5 and then ran something new for the TM, 7.7  for .75 then 9 for .25 until 6.

Ran a bit at home in the afternoon, had the kids so I had to get off and on  the TM a couple times, was going to run 5k fast was at 1.5 miles at about 9.1 avg when I had to stop and help Sadie take a poo, funny actually.

Good choice to skip the marathon with the weather, cold, kitchen and lack of parents to help out.  Going to try and have a big week.

10 miles 113:15

7:22 first 5 miles

7:15 last 5 miles

Sick of this cold it can't be helping my runs, I felt a bit off today but told myself its good to run feeling crappy.

Brian, proud of you for not running, trust me it will not hurt you.  You could go another week and not loose any of your recent gain it will take you 3 runs to feel back to your improved self, trust, trust, trust me.  This week could make or break your marathon!!!  They say you start to loose your gain after 3 weeks of not running and at that its not total loss.

For my injury 8-10 weeks was tough but I was ready to run Chicago and I had not run for 2 weeks at all hoping my injury was healed lucky for Chicago my injury was not healed or I would have eaten that course up!!  You know what I mean.

8 times 800's speed workout.

Felt crappy today and the weather was awesome but I was drained so I slept/rested at lunch for a couple hours and decided to miss my run.  Got home tonight with no intentions on running, I ate dinner with a beer and even a couple cookies.  Then the kdis wanted to play wii for a bit so I went downstairs and the TM was staring at me so I put on my flats and started running, I decided to run a 800@ 10 andd that felt good so I ended up running just after dinner 8 times 800's all at 6 min pace with 1 min recover @ 7 between, I think I ran 5 miles this way in just a bit over 32 mins.

So you never know how you will perform until you start running.

Trail, Greenway, beautiful morning.  No garmin today deserved this after the unexpected 800's last night.  I would guess it was a 7:20 avg with a decent neg. split but who really cares.

5.6 miles Tecumseh hill.

Did the hill workout which I have not done since before Chicago, I used to whip up that hill, tough today because I am not use to it.  I ran to the hill and did 6 repeats in a row.  All the up hills averaged around 7:20 (142-150)  Will improve on that once I start my summer training.

easy 5 miles on the trail 7:12 pace.

felt a bit of discomfort on the left ankle, sure its nothing.  21 miles tomorrow.

was going to run 20 today 5 out and back home for hydration and then repeat but during mile 3 we decided to run 16 today and then 16 tomorrow and then do our long run 20-22 next weekend which will be 3 weeks before the Cleveland marathon.

The wind was directly into us going out and then we picked it up on the way back but it started to get pretty warm, it was still a decent neg. split.  G started to fade, actually a bit dizzy due to no water so we took a short cut home and finished at 15 miles.  AVG pace for the run was 7:11

Tomorrow will be a bit cooler but then again we are running in the late afternoon which we are not used to, I did not like the 1030 start today either.

Ran out of time to run the 16, would of missed family dinner etc.

Surged up the hill ran under 6:45's for the last 3.5 miles.

6 miles Tecumseh, felt a bit worn from the weekend but still ran 7:08 in control.

Keep thinking about Boston today.  Its funny how this year would of been bad timing, funny how things are meant to be.

Reg. for the Cleveland marathon today, excited.

8 times 800's today.  70 degrees and sunny a bit of wind coming from the south which slowed me a bit on 2 of the repeats, the last one was half into the wind and I managed to stay under 3 mins.

256, 255, 258, 307, 258, 305, 303, 257

I sure wish that the formula for 800's is what my best marathon could be with this particular run I would run by the looks of it a sub 3 marathon.  I know that I could not do this but hopefully I can squeak a 310 - 315 in on May 18th in Cleveland.

Most important about this run is the rest period between was light jogging and a couple times a bit of walking but less than a minute before starting the next repeat.

This is my 14th day of running with no breaks, I should try and take a couple days off this week to get ready for Sunday's long run.

Partly cloudy skies, winds out of the SW @ 4 mph and mild temps of 55 F.  (Copied that from you Brian)  Although I started running at 830 ish so I think it was at least 60 if not more. 

No intentions or idea on what to do today, this was my 15 straight day of running and yesterday I ran 8 times 800's.  I just started running and after the first mile I was 6:43 so I thought I would maintain a comfortable tempo pace for at least 6 miles.  I ended up running a PB 10 mile today in 106:33.

I made sure that I stayed in controll and did not push it or else the run was not worth it so close to a marathon comming up.  The last mile was fast but a little out of control but I knew at that pnt I could break 107 so I pushed it a bit.

It was a good effort today considering I was even considering not running today.

Good run today Brian I bet you feel like a million bucks.

Once again I was suspose to take today off and rest but I would rather do this tomorrow and Saturday before Sun's long run.  7:10 for the first 3 miles out and 7:28 coming back.  Pretty big wind today blowing at me on the last 3 miles.  44 mins total.

Checked the wind, 35km from the east and gusts up to 50km, now that makes more sense.  I did not know the actual speed so I am glad that I ran the last mile directly into the wind and maintained under 720 min miles.  It was really blowing on the way back.

.75 then .25 on the TM @ 8.5 then 10

27 mins total.

Rest finally tomorrow.

17 days in a row.

Todd

Day off today, but I did run back from the 12th hole at the end of the scramble, I bet it was close to a mile.

20 miles tomorrow morning.

20 today, garmin was not working very well so I am not sure what to think.  I felt I was pretty quick but at mile 18 the garmin was counting backward but seemed to catch up later.  I ended up running more distance than G yet his garmin hit 20 before mine did.  I so close to ditching the garmin for long runs.

Total was 228:30 for 20 miles. 

Rest day.  Don't like it!

Two 5k repeats.

.25 warm up

5k - 20:02

800 recovery

5k - 20:01

cool down home.

First run was into the wind and the second the wind helped.  Bit of a stitch with a mile to go or would have run 19:30 I think.  All in all I am happy with this run because last time I did this before Chicago my injury happened, I was really scared today especially so soon to Cleveland and the long run on Sunday. 

Crazy, crazy work day, could not run at lunch because I had a wellness talk I had to do for a company.  I saw over a 100 patients so I was pretty exhausted.  I ate crappy when I got home because there was no dinne ready, Sarah is in Florida and the nanny left me dry!!  So for some reason I got the urge at 10pm to go and run 3 miles before bed, slept well.