Random Banter

  Monday - Easy run on the treadmill.  Wanted to do strides at the end but my hip was bugging me so I just did 1 and shut it down.  Tuesday - Nothing.  Was dead tired on Monday night so skipped Tuesday.  Wednesday - Workout.  Wasn't sure if the hip would hold up but it did.  Not really sure why but it felt fine.  Ended up doing 1 minute fast, 1 minute recover 6 times.  Paces were from 8:40 to 7:46.  They felt appropriate.  I didn't really look at my watch and just did them as I thought a 5K - 10K would feel! Thursday - Uphill treadmill walking for 20 minutes and some various weights/bodyweight stuff for another 20 minutes.   Friday - Easy run on the treadmill with some strides.  Saturday - Long run.  76 minutes total with some steady time at the end to finish.   I'm a bit late posting this so I know some things that I wouldn't have normally posted if I'd posted this when I wanted to! Right now it doe...

 It's been awhile since I've posted here, for just myself, but I thought I'd go ahead and get this down as it will help with my thought process as I move through this off season.   But first lets look back on this season.  This was probably our most successful season.  The biggest takeaway was the half marathon PR of 1:59.04 in late September.  I'd like to say that I knocked off some stuff in regards to the 5K distance but it just didn't happen (only 1 5K race!).  I'm fairly certain that it would go down right now, without a lot of specific training, but we will leave it as it is.  I also set a new PR in the 8 mile Antelope Trail race distance.  Just by a few seconds but a PR is a PR and I'll take it. For whatever reason that course always gets me! And now we begin the off season.  No races have been thought about or planned so I'm considering this the start of my off season and my big goal for this next year is to just get faster. And t...