Road Racing and Training Thread - Week Ending 5/26

I've got about 30 seconds, so I guess I can report about my week.

Mon - Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. etc.

Tues - a friend asked me if I had run ... I said that the clown wielding an axe that it takes to get some people to run would have mowed me down today.

Wed - nope

Thurs - Alumni golf scramble tournament. Didn't have a flying golf ball come anywhere near me.

Fri - 3. Let's try "active recovery". Idiot.

Sat - nope

Sun - 6. Less idiotic.

Total 9

Goal: Pick a goal.

Race: Probably eventually.

Hope everyone else had a great week and enjoys their holiday weekend. Pretty sure I'll still be checking in/commenting every week, but I may slack off as part of trying to make sure I don't rush myself coming back from this.

Goal: 32:00 10k

Goal race: falmouth road race

Monday: 6

Tuesday: AM 6 + PM 6 = 12

Wednesday: AM 6 + PM 6 = 12

Thursday: AM 6 + PM 6 = 12

Friday: rest

Saturday: 2wu/wd + 8 in 45:50 = 12

Sunday: 16

Good week for me, saturday work out splits were 5:44 5:45 5:47 5:47 5:35 5:42 5:43 5:42. Got into the Falmouth road race, so that's gunna be my main training focus. It's 7 miles, but I'm still gunna try and split my 10k goal on the way. I'm planning on incorporating more speed next week, maybe 6xmile at 10k pace.

nice consistency in the 8mi run RUSHED

Goal: Chicago sub 230

TBD: others in the meantime

M: 12

T: 12

W: 14

TR: 0 *unplanned

F: 8/13

S: 12

Su: 12-14 * tonight

~83-85

I've been reading this thread for several months and I figured I would join in. Might help me be more accountable with my training.

Goal Race: Atlanta Marathon 10/26 Sub 3:00?

Next Race: Peachtree Road Race 7/4

M: 5 miles (8:12)

T: 7 miles (10:55) - This was an awful run for me. Found myself walking up hills as I was running a pretty hilly loop at Berry College in Rome, GA.

W: Rest

H: 10 miles (8:52) - Had unexpected GI problems about 7 miles into this run and was pretty dehydrated afterwards. The weather's getting pretty warm and is going to get worse in the next few weeks (Highs in the 90's next week).

F: 5 miles (8:09) - Felt harder than it should have been. Negative split my 1st 4 miles (8:23, 8:04, 7:59, 7:53)

S: 5 miles (9:00) - Decided to end the week on a really easy out-and-back for 45 minutes.

S: Rest

Total: 32 miles

Also, previous Saturday I raced a road mile in 6:08 to give myself an idea of what kind of shape I am in. I'm planning on following Hanson's Advanced Training Program for my Fall Marathon.

Numbers: Looks like we are in the same phase building base mileage. Good luck and looking good so far.

VF: Godspeed on your recovery.

Rushed: Very nice workout on Saturday.

TheMack: I like the mileage. I can only dream of running that right now. Maybe in a year or so...

Goal Race - 10k end of June

M - 11

T - Interval workout (13.5)

W - 10 easy

T - Threshold/Repetition workout (12.5)

F - Off (planned)

S - 8 easy

S - 18

Total - 73 miles

Tuesday's interval workout:

3.5 mile warm-up/3.5 mile cool down

12 x 400m @ I pace with 200m active recovery (~1:12) - 71 avg (all between 70-72)

2k recovery jog between 4s and 2s

3 x 200m with 200m active recovery (~1:11) - 31.4, 30.9, 29.93

I had originally planned for 800 intervals, but due to University practice on the track; I was only able to use the outer lanes. Not knowing how to make an 800 out of the outer lanes, I decided just to change it to 400 intervals. It was not what I had planned, but combine this with it being the first hot and humid day of the year and I knew it wouldn't have been a great day for 800s anyway.

Thursday's threshold/repetition workout:

3 mile warm-up/3 mile cool down

2 x 3200m @ T pace with 400m active recovery (~2:03) - 10:20 (5:12/5:08), 10:20 (5:10, 5:10)

2 x 400m @ R pace with 400m active recovery (2:10) - 65.3, 65.3

4 x 200m with 200m active recovery (~1:14) - 30.5, 30.8, 31.2, 29.92

Very happy with this workout. Despite it being a windy day on the track, the tempos went well and I was able to keep both 400 repeats under 66. That was the goal. The 200s have been just to keep the speed up. Glad I've finally been able to dip under 30 again, albeit by 0.08 seconds! Hopefully, I can be consistently back to hitting 28 high/29 low by July.

Goal Race: Fall marathon (has to be determined yet)

Great work, RUSHED! But doesn't it kill your legs, when you go from just mileage straight into hard workouts like 6 x mile @ 10 K pace? My legs would be completely shot :-)

My week was pretty good. Everything went according to plan:

Mon: AM 10 easy

Tue: AM 20 x 300 (53'' avg., 300 jogg) + 2 x 200 (28, 27, 200 jogg) (13,5); PM 6+ easy

Wed: AM 12,5 easy, hilly; PM 10 easy - moderate (very hilly)

Thu: AM 9,5 + 5 x 100 hill sprints (jogg down) (10)

Fri: AM 10 mile tempo (53:24') (14,5), this went GREAT! LOVE this stuff!!

Sat: AM 12,5 easy; PM 10 easy - moderate

Sun: AM 16- very hilly and moderate effort

(total: 115 miles)

Next week I'll probably start to do a little bit more specific workouts, as I plan to run a 10 K in two weeks. Should be fun :-)

Have a nice Sunday everyone!

Pikachu

Thought I'd join in again after a couple of months off.

In the month of May I have runs PBs at 10k (32:00), 1500 (4:10) and 5000 (15:24). I am racing a 3000 on Wednesday to see if I can make it 4/4.

Goal: 15:15/8:45 by the end of summer. Currently 15:24/8:53

This week:

Monday: 15km easy (15)

Tuesday: 17km easy (17)

Wednesday: 18km easy (18)

Thursday: felt ill, day off (0)

Friday: ill, rest (0)

Saturday: Rest (0)

Sunday: Warwickshire County Champs 5000m, 1st in 15:24.93 – 4th in combined counties race (15)

Week total: 65 km

Last Saturday I did 3 races in 1.5hrs: a 1500, a 5000 and a 400 relay leg and ended up getting ill this week, hence the 3 days off. Hoping to get a full week in this coming week.

Goal races: Mile, 3000, and 5000 at all-comers meets (to work on speed before I go back up to longer road races)

Goal times: Probably 18:30 for the 5000, 5:30ish for the mile (no idea if this makes any sense), don't know what 3000 times mean still

I was really feeling stress from work on top of probably doing too much last week. Stress took physical toll by Wednesday and I paid for it.

Monday: 8.5 miles at 7:35 pace. 4.75 with a group and the rest alone. Mostly 7:50 pace when I was running alone, picked it up with the group but didn't even notice, felt very good. Did some hip exercises after.

Tuesday: 6 at 7:57 pace. Tired, and started off extremely slow, but got into it by the end. Strides after.

Wednesday AM: 5 at 8:05 pace, feeling really awful.

Wednesday PM: Practice, 8.5 total. Backed off, did 4 mile tempo, supposed to be 3 at 6:40 and then pick it up. The people leading took it out at 6:15 so another girl and I split off. Did 6:40 for the next two, then picked it up to 6:20. I felt bad in every way imaginable. I didn't even want to be at practice. Huge red flag. Modified strength routine after, only what I could handle.

Thursday: 8.5 easy at 8:01 pace. Better, but still very tired.

Friday: 7.5 at 7:50 pace. Again, feeling better than the day before. Lots of sleep, stayed home to relax instead of going out and stuff. Strides after.

Saturday: Practice, 10 total with a 4 mile tempo at 6:40 pace (pace inconsistent but average was fine). 5:00 rest into 3 x 800 with 2:00 rest. Did 3:03 / 3:04 / 3:03. I felt a lot better. Not perfect, but better.

Sunday: 16 at 8:05 pace, about 10.5 with the group. Feeling really good, surprisingly. Lots of sleep and food helped I guess.

Total was about 71 again. Beat myself up for being "lazy" on Wednesday but I think it was the right choice. Achilles is also being a little annoying, not too bad but I'm keeping up with all my maintenance stuff to stop it from becoming a full-blown injury again.

Next week I'm going to back off, do 45-50 miles, take Tuesday off, and race the mile on Wednesday! I have no idea how to race the mile. It should be interesting. If enough people are interested I also might do the 4 x 400.

Oh and I discovered whey protein isolate. That stuff is awesome.

I'll comment after I take my practice GRE.

Training Stats for Week:

- 0 miles running.

- 630 minutes of cross-training. (checked my old logs, this is a PR by almost 200 minutes). Breakdown: 35 min elliptigo, 125 min stationary bike, 470 min elliptical.

Injury update:

After going to the PA and physical therapist on base over the past couple of weeks, I was finally allowed to go see a sports medicine specialist this past Thursday. He took some x-rays, came in and bent my knee and leg in a few different directions and then pressed on a spot right below my knee that made me wince pretty good. Apparently the bursa sac right above my fibula is pretty inflamed and he prescribed me some medrol and asked me not to run for the next 10 days. I asked about my IT band and he said that it sounded like I may/probably had some issues in the area which led to me altering my stride and irritating the bursa, but it seems like my IT band is probably fine now.

I am not 100% convinced about his "it's not your IT band" comment, but I figure I have run 3 times in the last 4 weeks (and have taken 10 days off now) and have done a lot of strengthening/rehab for it really may be fine in that area now. His diagnosis does seem to explain why it seems like a lot of people can run through their IT band issues but I can't make it more than 15 minutes without stopping. I guess another 10 days of cross-training and strengthening can't hurt either. (as long as I don't go insane from the cross-training)

Pretty good week for me, followed by a fairly irritating race this morning – but I'll get to that in due course.

Sunday: 17.5k. Went out thinking it would be nice and easy, but felt surprisingly peppy. Turned out a 10-mile tempo in 1:02:44, trotted for the rest to cool down.

Monday: 13.5k easy (am), 14.5k easy (pm).

Tuesday: 12x400 hill repeats. This workout was wacky tobacky – I couldn't really tell if I was working hard or not, until I woke up on Wednesday and my glutes let me know what was up. 16k total.

Wednesday: 13.5k easy (am), 18.5k easy (pm). Evening run was really beautiful on the new path I found last week, excepting the snot-nosed teenagers congesting one stretch of road and mocking passers-by. I assume that, like the boys who mocked the prophet Elisha, they've since been devoured by righteous she-bears.

Thursday:10x400 repeats in trail run: 81, 78, 79, 77, 78, 79, 77, 80, 75, 69. A bit more variation in there than I'd like, but my butt was still pretty sore from hill repeats. Felt generally pleased with speed when I maintained concentration for a whole rep, which seems to be an issue with this workout. Also ran into an old boss of mine on the trail at the end, who I was pleased to learn has taken up running. 16.7k total.

Friday: 19k moderate in a lovely lunch run with my training buddy. Nice, refreshing rain fell during this one.

Saturday:Off (planned)

Total: 129k. I knew I'd be taking a big mileage cut this week because of my pre-race rest day, so I tried to pick up a few extra kilometres here and there. Fairly surprised I went that high, actually – this makes me feel pretty good about hitting the 100 mile mark in a week of regular training, which will happen either this week or the next.

Which brings me to the big, stinky bag of hot garbage that happened this morning.

Race day Sunday: A community league 10k for my monthly heat-check, selected for its purportedly flat course and convenient timing. Unfortunately, the race also employed an outrider more interested in impersonating Lance Armstrong than doing his benighted job – he shot out 400m in front of my in the first 10 minutes of the race, causing me to miss a poorly-marked turn just past 2k and run 60 per cent of the race on unofficial trail. I just turned around when my Garmin read 5k.

My little shortcut also sent me down a hilarious little hill that falls 40m in 40m and then shoots right back up. Since I ran an unintended there-and-back, I had to climb it twice. When I went through it on the way back, around 7k, it knocked me right into hash and blew up any chance of coming home under 34 minutes. Came back to the course feeling fairly demoralized and demonic and finished in 35:44, crossing the line with what I'm sure was a look fit to kill on my face. I decided to write an email to the race director rather than speak to him in person. Maturity, I'm told, is very important.

My girlfriend had parked her car in full view of the finish line. After the race, sitting in the passenger seat and trying to cool down literally and figuratively, I watched the outrider escort the "winner" across the line at least five minutes after me. Felt a bit poignant, that. Was tempted to hop out of the car and converse with the outrider for a second, but my cooler self prevailed.

I hope everyone had a happier end to their week than me. Will comment sometime tomorrow when I have time. About to go write as diplomatic an email as I can manage to a certain race organizer.

Wait, why is whey protein isolate good for runners? I thought protein supplements for for, you know, Schwarzenegger types.

numbers: I am like you are/were with runs. I have to get to a certain distance or it bothers me. I am trying to get away from that too. Lately I have been taking my garmin just over the distance. Have fun getting back into workouts.

VF: Looks like a normal post marathon week. get rested up and recovered

rushed: nice week and very consistent workout. where is the falmouth road race at?

themack: when are you starting specific traning/workouts again? Great base mileage, even with that unplanned day off.

bones: good luck in the marathon build up. plenty of marathoners here.

NJ: another great week. So consistent on those workouts!

pikachu: 115 + lots of hills it seems. great week. wish I liked doing hills and hilly routes.

brum: welcome back. congrats on the PRs!

xenon: still good times for feeling like junk during wed workouts. just to finish on days like that is a +. no worries on one bad day. like you said. take some easy days or week and reset. It worked for me last week.

Here is a great quote from Jason Hartman, "When you’re a younger athlete, you really get this mindset of, ‘I gotta train hard, I gotta train hard, I gotta train hard. I gotta hit this home run.’ But as you get older you’re like, ‘I’ve just got be consistent, just get singles, just get singles, just get singles,’ and then eventually you may get a pitch to hit out. When you try to hit home runs all the time, you (often) strike out. I’m trying to make contact and be smart… That’s what age does – with age, comes experience…"

Steve: Wow on the cross training! you are crazy! are you doing "workouts" with the cross training? hope you can get back running soon!!

bonham: that sucks to hear. I would have been just as upset as you. but good call on trying to keep calm and forget about it. Protein is great and needed for anyone not just hulk typle people. I take a protein mix after hard workouts.

Goal: Grandmas Marathon 6/22

Tune up: 5k 6/15

Mon: 7 + 6 (13)

Tues: 8

Wed: 8 + 4 (12)

Thus: 23 (4x4mi @ MGP)

Fri: 6 + 4 (10)

Sat: 10 + 4 (14)

Sun: 8 + 4 (12)

Total: 92

Sticking around 90 miles for the next two. Focusing on LONG workouts. Next ones are 27 with 5x4mi @ MGP, 30 with 5x4mi and 1x2mi @MGP and then 16-18 @ MGP. All other runs are easy, recovery or some accelerations.

Thurs: 23 with 4x4mi @MGP. Felt really good. Worked into this one bc I havent done anything marathon specific since pre boston taper. 2E, 606,604,601,600, 2E, 603.5,601,558,558, 1E, 602,559,557,553, 1E, 600,553,545,541, 1E. E = Easy. 2:28:38

Sunday- 3 mile run

Monday-3 mile run

Tuesday-4 mile run

Wednesday- 1 mile warm up 6x1:30Fast/1:30 easy,6 min bleacher run, 1x800-2:26, 2x200s-31sec. 1 mile cooldown

Thursday- 4 mile run

Friday- 3 mile run

Saturday- 10 minute warm up, 5k xc race-18:06, 2 mile cooldown.

Hey All,

After finally getting in 2 good running days last weekend, I decided to see how far I could take my legs this week. While I'm still not back to form, I did manage some normal volume for me. All of my miles, except for 5 on Sunday, were at my easy pace (about 7:30/mi).

M: 2,500m swim. 7.5 mile run (1 hour)

T: 8.3 mile run (1:03)

W: 6.2 mile run (44:47)

T: 2,600m swim

F: 9.0 mile run (1:08)

S: 7 miles on treadmill (52:30) weather outside sucked.

S: 14.5 miles (1:49) with miles 9-13 at sub 7:00/mi. Then shuffled home.

52.5 miles

My right leg aches, but I'll try to keep ahead of it with stretching. I will also try to get in some tempo stuff ahead of the B.A.A. 10k on 6/23.

Kind of tired this week. Anyways, catching up on some stuff from last week first (sorry for missing general comments, though!).

Beer mile related, in some order that feels like it makes sense:

The beer mile was done on the university track. I guess we could have done it on a high school track or something, but I'm not sure how that would have improved things. NJ truth, is it drinking in public if you're trespassing? I also think someone mentioned someone they know running 7:20. Something like that doesn't seem like it should be that hard, since running tempo pace basically gives 30 seconds time for each beer, but I'll need to go under better conditions (not feeling nauseous from food, beer that is not warm) to have any idea whether that's realistic.

More general drinking related:

I don't drink too often. If I've gone shopping and felt like buying beer (most commonly for certain seasonals, but probably not more than once a month) I might have one on some nights after dinner, but that's about it. Then there are situations in which I drink a lot (sometimes when I'm with my family, other nights when undergrads convince me to go out), but those don't happen more than once a month on average either. I guess for the most part I'm pretty solitary and don't drink too much except to try some new things (usually with beer, since it's relatively cheap and more suited towards individual portion sizes than wine and other beverages).

Next Race: West Chester Distance Night 5k, 5/31. Then get drunk at reunions (one, or maybe three, of those "once a month on average" times).

This week:

M - 11

T - 10.5

W AM 10 with 2.5, (2 min), 1, (1 min), 1.5 tempo/ PM 7

Th - 6

F - 6

Sa - 6

Su - 15 in 1:38

Total: 71.5. I knew Thursday I'd probably only run in the morning since the final for the course I TA'ed for was in the evening, there would probably be last minute questions, and the weather was crappy. But both Friday and Saturday I just felt wiped out in the afternoons. Pretty weird, since both of those mornings I felt awesome on the run. Not sure what the reason was for that, but I don't feel nearly as lethargic today, which I guess is good. Would have liked to get a second workout in on Friday or Saturday, though.

Wednesday workout: Did a couple miles of warmup on the towpath, then 2.5 miles with splits of 2:46.7, 5:27.9, 5:26 (?), a couple of minutes rest, then headed back. Decided to break up the way back into two pieces, which ended up meaning stopping after 1 mile because of missing markers. Hit 5:16.8 for the (short) mile (maybe by 12s?), then 5:34.2, 2:44.8 for the 1.5 the rest of the way in.

Numbersguy: Cool to hear your getting over your "neurosis," if that's the word. Kind of off topic, but one of my neuroses is that I've never (OK, only once) gotten a haircut when away from home over the past seven years (college and grad school). I now cut my own hair. Turns out OK, though getting some parts right (especially around the ears) took some trial and error.

Rushed: Pretty solid tempo! I agree with Pikachu that I'd probably ease into intervals a bit more, but I guess 10k often isn't too much faster than tempo, so it's probably fine.

themack: Nice mileage even with the unplanned day off!

bones32002004: Former 2 miler from the class of 2004, maybe? Welcome to the thread! I've definitely found it to be a great community that helps with training, and I hope you do too. What's your recent running history been like?

NJ truth: Not that it will be a problem soon, but if you want to know about other tracks in the area that tend to be accessible, let me know. We often do workouts at one of the nearby high school's track (they tend to finish practice by 4:45 or so, but sometimes do have lacrosse games). Good job hitting the paces on your workouts!

Pikachu: I"m probably sounding like a broken record by now, but great week!

brumrunner: Glad to have you back. Nice 5k! Glad you were able to recover to hit a personal best!

xenonscreams: Since I had to do it a couple of times earlier in the year, I'm interested in you running the 4 x 400. :P. With regards to Wednesday (and your thread on it), try not to beat yourself up about it. By now you probably have a pretty good idea of how your mind and body should feel when running, and it pays off big-time in the long term to heed those feelings.

SteveInAlaska: 630 minutes of cross training. Holy shit.

Bonham: Nice week! Sorry to hear about the bad race experience today.

np1112: Those are indeed LONG workouts. Will you be doing anything special for calories/fluids on those? Can't imagine doing the 30 mile one without a decent amount of support.

printer: I'd die if I tried to swim that far.

So, I will preface this post by mentioning that last Sunday I ran too much technical trail downhills and strained something around my left groin (inner hip). that run ended poorly, had to walk it in. so every day this week was attempts at running farther each day. didn't run anything faaster than 6:50s all week until my single stride this morning before the race.

M 2.6 @7:44, felt pain after 10min

T 3.7 @7:37 and 15min swimming, no pain today

W 5 @7:13, no pain

T 5.7 @7:24 no pain

F 6.3 @7:39 no pain

S 5 @7:12 no pain

S 17 w/ 1/2 Marathon race in 1:15:40 (4:23 PR) for 6th OA

total 45 @7:05

the half went very well. the first 6 miles downhill were fast, probably too fast. hit 10k in a new PR of 35:05, then started easing up to be conservative. i just wanted to finish in one piece with a working leg, so i slowed to 6:00ish for the next 6 miles. ran mile 12 a little faster in 5:44 but just enough to pass whoever had caught up to me and no more effort beyond that as the time didn't matter.

the plan is to now take 2-3 days of no running (XT only) then ease back into it the rest of the week while swimming most days and doing some core work.

marathon training begins the week after next. focus will be moderate effort long runs. i just need to build up to the long runs, as that is what i lack the most currently.

Numbersguy- I hear you on the "exact distance" thing. I have a handful of loops I run around my house (when I am not on the treadmill) but I still sometimes do an extra bit of back-and-forth in front of the house just to get to an exact distance as well. (although I just round down if I am a little bit over).

VF Runner- Sounds like the typical post-marathon week. Hope you are recovering well with no lingering issues.

Rushed- Very solid 8-mile tempo, and congrats on getting into Falmouth. That should be a great opportunity to get pulled along by some fast competition.

bones32002004- Welcome! I am thinking of sticking completely to the Hansons plan for my next marathon buildup as well. (I did a modified version of it for my last go)

NJ Truth- Solid workouts this week man. I know you are targeting a 10,000 in 4 weeks, but it sure looks like you can run fast in the 1500-5000 right now as well if you get the opportunity.

Pikachu- Impressive week as usual, and the 10-mi tempo on Friday looked fun. Felt abut marathon-paced effort?

brumrunner- Congrats on the PR! Seemed like you might have been able to go even faster too if you weren't sick earlier in the week and/or had some faster competition. Good luck in the 3K.

Xenoscreams- Looks like another solid week, hopefully you caught the achilles in time and backing off a bit definitely sounds like a good idea.

Bonham- Very solid week and sorry for the race mishap. It looks like you still managed to get in a quality run though.

NP1112- Nice 4x4 workout! And it looks like you got some tough sessions lined up but you always seem to handle them well.

I was going to post day-by-day details, but it's not really running and I already had a long post. But some highlights this week:

-Tuesday - 3x(5 on, 1 off) on the elliptical. HR was 165-170 bpm. (about tempo effort)

-Wednesday - 75min @ 150-160 bpm. (MP-ish effort)

-Saturday - Failed tempo workout. Did 8 hard, 2 easy, 6 hard, 2 easy, 10 moderate. Hard was supposed to be tempo effort at 170+bpm but I got my HR in the mid-160s range and it felt like my quads were going to explode. Moderate was HR 155-160.

I felt good about the week since during most of my elliptical sessions my heart rate was in the 130-150 range. Based on Daniels Running Formula, marathon pace should be 150-160 bpm for me so I am basically doing "progression runs" ending around MP effort.

RunRun123- Nice week and solid race man.

Printer- Good to see you back on your feet. Hope you join you in about 2-3 weeks.

StevenJ- Very nice tempo workout on Wednesday. Good luck in the 5K next week.

Reed- Sounds like you treated your groin issue perfectly and managed to run a very solid half today. Congrats man.

Hello everyone!

M - 4 @ Very slow

T - 6 (8x200 around 32) Veeeery hot

W - 8 @ 7:18

T - 6 @ 8:16

F - 8 (4 miles @ 6:18 felt good)

S - 5 @ 7:58

S - 10 @ 7:41 Windy as hell, wanted to do 13 but felt awful.

total 47

Finally 100% pain free. Shin pain is gone and metatarsal pain is gone as well. Did my first "real" tempo run after april's half marathons and I'm glad to see an improvement in my pace, (same effort and on the same route).

It always happens the same way, I do a 12 week cycle, race all-out, recover, and all my paces get a bit faster.

If I take a look at my training logs over the last 2 and a half years I see cycles with tempos at 7:45, 7:15, 6:50, 6:30, and I guess now around 6:15.

It's funny to see that an hard effort in 2010 is my easy run today.

xenonscreams- do you often do 2 tempos a week? I was thinking about experimenting with that

numbersguy- I always prefer even numbers for my runs. For weekly mileage as well. Today I wanted to go an extra mile only to log 48 instead of 47 ;)

bones32002004- welcome

Steveinalaska- good luck with your injury, hope things get better soon

reed- nice half!