I have been looking forward to this one for awhile now. 60 sounds a lot better than 59 but I'm done now. Lets not have any more !!
But seriously, I sometimes wonder where the time has gone. I have to say that I am quite proud of where I am right now. I never would have imagined that at this age I would be in nearly the best shape of my life, Sure, I can't touch the 20 and 30 year old pr's but I can at least be close to some from my 40's and early 50's. and as far as strength and fitness I don't know that I have ever been any been stronger or looked better in my life. It didn't happen by accident though. If you know me you know that over the past 3 years I have been doing core, body weight or free weight workouts nearly 7 days a week, sometimes twice a day in addition to all the running and the work has paid off.
My weight is hovering around 138 now, only 3 pounds more than me at 25 and that is muscle. A little over three years ago I was 148 and no muscle and a some love handles showing around the waist despite running over 2,000 miles a week.
In addition to the fitness I am even happier to be healthy. I know that anything could happen but right now I am feeling great. I went to the Dr for an upper respiratory infection after returning from California in the summer and other than that I had not been to a Dr for sickness since an ear infectioin in 1985 !!
Enough of that for now, how about the "recovery" week
Well, Ultraman left me some of his super powers while he is off fighting Superman.
On Monday I took a rest day !
Tuesday I had the time an desire and amazingly no soreness from the 50k so I went for an easy 4 at home. and wow, the pace was right where it would have been before racing.
Wed was a 6 miler again at my now normal 8:49 average pace and no soreness.
Thursday was an easy 5 at Crabtree in yes, 8:49 average !
I was looking forward to Fun Friday resuming but a little worried if I could hold a decent pace to keep up with Laura. I have never had a bad workout with her before. And, the streak of awesomness continued ! With no planned workout we just ran how I felt and ended up doing a great tempo run for 5 miles after an opening 8:20 mile. We were only off the course pr by 17 seconds but I ran relaxed the while time, no side stitch or nausea coming over the last mile or two. How cool is that ! what 50k?
Saturday was another easy 6 at 8:47 average on the Crabtree Creek section from AndersonPoint. Notice the consistency?
Sunday was a gorgeous morning and I went over toward Clayton and ran an easy half marathon for my birthday run in 1:56:23, an 8:53 pace.
So there you have it. A great week, a milestone birthday and big things to come. Stay tuned for a year end update coming soon and looking ahead to the coming year. !
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