Week 7 - It would be OK to let me be "Wind Aided" for a run or two

February 12 - 18

Total Miles: 16.62

Weight – 215.2

The treadmill runs were not bad this week, although I had to run on the one treadmill in the gym that is akin to running on a surface harder than concrete.  I don’t know how this is possible, but that treadmill is killer on the legs and I found myself dropping my speed and changing my stride to try to lessen the impact.  By doing that of course, I felt beat at the end of the runs. (Which was not good since they the first runs of the week.)

The long run was exhausting even though I scaled back from last week (6.12 miles rather than 7 miles).  Why the odd distance you ask?  Well I was planning on running it as a 10k, but lost track of time, looked down and saw that I had gone too far.  Oh well.

It was absolutely freezing (first time this winter that I had to break out a running jacket and gloves) and there was a headwind in three of the four directions.  How is that even possible?  I have determined that much like when you BBQ and no matter where you stand the wind blows smoke in your face, it also does the same thing when you are running in cold winds.  I am not running an official race here, it would not be so bad to be “wind aided” for a change.  To add to the freezing weather, I was also pushing my son in the jogging stroller.  Add his 40 pounds and then the 5 pounds of sweatshirt, coat and blankets to the mix and every uphill (and downhill for that matter) was that much tougher.  At least he got a good nap out of it though.  He had the windscreen pulled down and the blankets pulled up over his head.  By mile 2 he was out and did not wake up until we got back to the house.

It’s roughly a month and week to go until the Sac Town 10.  I should be well under the 2 hour 30 min max finish time barring some unforeseen pull or side stitch (I got a side stitch on mile 4 on Saturday and I had to slow almost to a walk to get it to go away).  I’m trying not to look too far ahead, but if I can get to April without any injury, I may schedule a half marathon sometime in June or July.  We’ll see.