Our training is a bit screwed up. Well actually I'm right on schedule but Tom and Todd are behind. Tom's had injuries and Todd leaves on the weekends. This week I pulled my team together and told them we had to do at least 8 today because we need to jump to 13 next week. This means they will have skipped their 11 mile run. We'll see how it goes. We have a lot of stuff going on it is gonna be hard coordinating these runs but I don't know if I trust them to do long runs on their own. Todd revealed a few runs back that he doesn't run during the week. The only running he does is with us during our long runs. He says going to the gym and doing sports conditioning and lifting weights is just as good. I say that's great but it's not the same. You have to muscle train and get used to using your running muscles for long periods of time and maintenance runs are important. He basically rolls his eyes when I tell him this stuff but after today I think he just might start listening. If not it's gonna get harder and harder on him with the long runs.
Tom did really good today considering he has had some injury issues.
We did a route that was similar to the one we did a few weeks ago. Starting at my dad's we head to McKay Dee Hospital and go around but instead of going all the way around we headed up Harrison Blvd and then weaved the neighborhoods until we hit Glassman Way. We headed up and over 89 to the neighborhoods around there. Then we made our way back. Just after hitting 7.55 Todd announced he was done so he headed home while Tom and I put in another mile. The route was good and hilly other than we had to dodge ice on the roads. It takes a lot of energy when you are jumping puddles and ice chunks.
**STATS**
ME & TOM
(Todd called it quits about a mile prior)
Distance: 8.5 miles
Time: 1:26:37
Pace: 10:12/min/mile
Temperature: 27 degrees
Time of Day: 10:45 a.m.
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