Just seventeen and you know what I mean

This morning, I had a 17 miler. I've been running by myself for the most part and heading out early. Since marathon training season is getting into full swimg, I decided to run most of it with my team. I left the house at 8 and ran a bit more than 5 before meeting them for a 9am departure. That's just too late to start such a long run. I suffered in the heat. I chaffed badly and I'm still down at least a quart. Yuck. Oh and my garmin battery pooped out at mile 9. I knew where I was going so I wasn't worried about the distance and my effort felt even. I was extremely glad when I got out of the sun and the whole thing was over.

Luckily, next week is a recovery week so my milage gets cut back.

10 on the 10th

It is so nice to see the temp at 73...and have it feel like 73. It's been so humid lately today was a real treat. I got up early, with Loren who is on France time, and ran my 10 miles in the park.

It was lovely. No chaffing, no dry salt on my face, no red lining heart rate.

start of week 5

This week started with a 9 mile run, 4 at tempo. That's all fine and good though at 7:15 am when I set out for my run,  it was about 75 degrees with 87% humidity so it felt like 85.

Nasty.

I decided to go by effort and not pace for the tempo run. My HR got up to 186 which is a bit high. My pace for my temp portion was 8:17-8:33. Not bad, a bit slower than it would be under better conditions but I'm happy with it.

When I got home every inch of me was soaked.

week 4

Week 4 of Pfitz is in the books. 42 miles for the week.

I stil feel a bit jetlagged or just not enough sleepness. Loren called from France this morning, 9:30am my time and I was still sound asleep, which is rare for me. 

Today was a 4 mile recovery run. It was 72 degrees out but 80% humidity.

15

I did not sleep well last night. I'm still a bit on west coast time and I got sucked into the Olympic track trials which didn't start til 11pm.  Then I just had trouble sleeping. I wanted to get out early for my 15 mile run. That didn't happen. It was almost 10 when I got out the door. Normally the long run is on Sunday though today's weather was calling to be cooler than tomorrow. Long runs in the summer, I'll take cooler days when I can get them.

The other night on my 8 mile run, I think I fried my ipod. It was hot and humid and I sweat a lot. I think sweat got into the little connector and now it's not working at all. My computer doesn't see it. I think it's dead. It lasted a year and a half of really hard use. So now I'm debating getting a refurbished one of just doing what I did today...running with Loren's first generation nano, which compared to today's ipods is huge. I can go with out, I just like listening to podcasts when I run long, it really helps the time go by.

By mile 11 it started raining. It felt great. It was only about 70 degrees out, but really humid so this helped. Too bad I had already chaffed all over my chest. I started using sports shield instead of body glide and I like it much more, though when I'm soaked there's not much I can do about it.

Now the rest of the day is all about laying around and watching cycling, baseball, track, and whatever ever else I can find on the boob. I really dont feel like doing anything else.

80 at 8

I hemmed and hawed about doing my 8 mile 10x100 run tonight. It was very hot and humid today. Flying in on the red eye didn't help things. When my sleep pattern is messed up like that, it makes me mental state, well, mental. It's really not good for me. I did come home and sleep for a few hours than late this after noon I took another nap. 

I decided to go. It was about 7:45 when I left and it was 82 degrees. 

I'm glad I did. I felt great. The humidity had died down a little bit. I ran really well. Since it's a holiday weekend, not too many people out in the park. I think I got sweat in my shuffle, it shorted out on me with less than 2  miles to go.

Yesterday, I did a recovery run in Mt Tabor park while still in Portland. It's hard to run easy when you're running up a mountain. 

I love portland. I love the running there. Have I mentioned that?

Portland!

So I'm in Portland this week visiting some friends. Yesterday, I went running with the ladies of  Portland Front Runners. It's really cool to be able to go to different cities and have a sister club in town. Instant running partners!

When I spent some time out here a few years ago, I got to know some of these ladies and it's been great to see them again.

It was, however, HOT. I've been running in the mornings back home to avoid the heat. Here, I started my 10 miles around 5 and the heat of the day hadn't faded. It was really all about just getting it done. 

I've changed up the plan for the week to fit in with my traveling. Today is a rest day! That, I will enjoy.