Chad's Runs

Recovery run this morning at 9:30 pace.  Beautiful full moon this morning, and nice and cool too.  Legs are still tired and a little sore from Saturday but I'm not injured in any way.  This week is going to be tough to get miles in.  I will only get one more, maybe two runs in the rest of the week.  I've got to get 5-6 days work into 4 because we start the drive back to Illinois Friday morning.  With 10-12 hours in the car both Friday and Saturday, I won't run.  I don't want to risk being any more sleepy.  Then Sunday morning (shame on me) I'm running the Moline Firecracker 10K.  I'm excited about that one.  The rest of next week I should have time to put in some miles, but I'm not sure how well I'll handle the humidity.

I didn't run this morning.  My 12 year old son cut his finger last night and I had to take him to get it stitched up.  He cut it with his pocket knife but it's anyones guess what he was doing with it.  He's really smart, he gets straight As; but he's really dumb.  I hope I'm not the only one with a smart/dumb teenager.  Anyway, I was up late last night and decided to abandon this morning's run.  I'll run tomorrow.  I can't run on Friday or Saturday and risk being tired while driving so if I don't run tomorrow I'll miss an entire week.

7 miles this morning at 8:17 average.  I wanted to see if it was realistic to run my 10k this weekend in under 50 minutes.  I did this morning because my first mile warm-up was 9:40.  Everything else was right around 8:00.  I don't know how the conditions in Illinois will affect me.  It will be more humid but at lower altitude.  With a 7:30 start it will also be hotter than the 4:30 start this morning.  It's also on Sunday so I might be struck down.  Oh well, I'm looking forward to it.