Co Week #3

Well, not as good as week #2 (but I have plenty of excuses):

Monday 4/12 - following DC's advice to NOT run every day, I was going to ride my bike (pulling the little ones) to Veronica's soccer practice. Well, I got home and wifey and I talked for awhile and next thing we knew, it was too late to ride to practice...so we drove.

Tuesday - this was a shuffle in the schedule workout. Today was treated like as though it was Thursday so I headed to the Barr Trail. I was a little spooked (and even came down the main trail instead of taking the race cutoff) to avoid the area where bears were being reported. Great time of 51:14 for Soda Springs park to the top o' W's. last week: 54:25

Wednesday - Veronica had practice and I otherwise simply didn't get out...not sure why???

Thursday - my Tuesday tempo run for 3.5 miles in 40:48, which equals a 11:39 mm. That's up from 42:41 last week. So the question is: do i move up the distance since I have achieved my desired pace, or go one more week and move up the distance only after 3 consecutive weeks of improvement (I've only improved 2 weeks in a row)???

Friday - this was to be my long run since I was to be out of town this wkend...but more pressing things called, like beer, peanuts, and packing for the weekend.

Saturday - had a long drive to a soccer game, hand off the kids to grandparents, meet my wife, and head to Keystone; and do this before the Caps game. needless to say - no run.

Sunday - in all honesty, I really thought today was Saturday and therefore had tomorrow (Sunday) for my long run. Well since it was Sunday and I took about three naps....

Monday - though officially part of week #4, I'm counting it as the long run for week #3. This was supposed to be from the PPA start line to No Name Creek and back. Roughly a 1/4 of the total ascent. Well since I wasn't in CS, I obviously couldn't do that run so I headed out for what i thought would be 6 miles at roughly 9500 feet above sea level. About 1 mile in my back hurt like hell (damn Murphy bed in the condo) and I abandoned the run and instead turned in a 5.4 m walk in 1:23 / 15:26 mm pace. Then proceeded to drive back to CS and straight to a bar to watch the Caps and game #3 (which they won 5-1!!!).

Hopefully this week is more consistent.