brain meltdown
This past week you can count yourself lucky if your blog is hosted on a big service (e.g. blogger), or if you don’t rank well in the search engines.
Why? Because many domains with decent google ranking blogs fell under heavy attack from comment spamming botnets this week. It took all my energy to keep Complete Running up this week and got very little sleep while doing so.
Running didn’t suffer until Friday when I forgot two things. The first thing I forgot was my employer’s Christmas lunch which meant I would not be running as scheduled during my lunch break. I thought, “no problem, I’ll run when I get home”. Wrong – I forgot I had my daughter’s school Christmas show to attend.
So, I missed Friday’s run due to a brain misfire. Argh! That’s not going to happen again if I can help it.
Today’s run was a good one. I felt sluggish starting out (funny how that’s always the case after a day off) so I decided to run super slow until it felt right to increase the pace. It never really did feel like I picked up the pace at all during the run. It felt slow.
But the stats tell a different story:
Distance: 9.3 miles
Time: 1:29
Pace: 9:33 min/mile
Average Heart Rate: 148 (nice and low)
That’s faster than my last 90 minute slow run (which in itself was a record) and I have no idea why.
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Sunday December 17, 2006 @
Mark, I think it would be better to post a weekly log instead of or in addition to your daily runs. It makes it easier to understand how you’re training.