Marathon Man
Ran 26.2 on the treadmill tonight. 4:27. Watched the entire superbowl, timed it pretty well – finished just as they were presenting the trophy. Not bad considering my longest run to this point was 14 miles.
I think I passed through the valley of the shadow of death about 5 times… I’ll be feeling this one for a while.
The best part was tossing my wrappers and bottles along side of the ‘road’. Litterbug.
I finished after the kids had already gone to bed. When I went upstairs, I found this note on my pillow. Too cute.
Tempo run
It figures that after doing the last several runs outside in darkness, sub-freezing temps, and snow/ice, my treadmill day would turn out to be sunny and 45 degrees. D’oh!
Oh, well. I was still smarting a bit after hitting the deck on the ice yesterday and my legs were really craving some tempo after having done mainly long slow distance runs this week. I wanted to just put it on auto-pilot for a while. I built up my pace over the first 3 miles and then did 4 miles at a steady tempo (8:20), then I stepped it down over the next 3 for a total of 10 – giving me 52 for the week. The ITB issues that I’ve had over the past 3 months are steadily disappearing into the rear-view mirror. Nice!
Let sleeping dogs lie
The older kids were playing outside in the snow when Malcolm decided to dig a hole and wait in it to ambush the girls with a snowball when they came around the corner of the house.
Apparently they took too long, because Malcolm fell asleep! The girls tiptoed past him and left him there – asleep with snowball in hand.
The Scene Begins 