Friday, February 24th - 0! I don't remember why exactly, but basically ran out of time and had to get up early to volunteer for the Castlewood Cup 15K Trail Race, (far, far away from home).
Saturday, February 25th - 6 miles (4 up, 10 x hills, 1 down). Got to Castlewood State Park bright and early, and got in my workout before volunteering for the race. Ran around the park for a warmup before the hill workouts - absolutely gorgeous day, nice area and I want to go back! Found a pretty nasty, steep hill and did repeats (roughly 20-21 seconds) before jogging back and doing over. Quick cooldown to finish, then met up with everyone else to get ready for the race. We volunteered by the 7.5 mile mark, basically as a course monitor/traffic duty - pretty crowded area with tons of cars coming in and out, but a lot of fun. Glad to give back to the running community, and see a lot of my friends run as well. Congrats to Matty D for the win, and the other 400 runners that competed as well!
Sunday, February 26th - 14 miles. Group run in the morning with Ken (in town), Crystal, Mike, and Pat. WINDY - tried keeping it slow, but the pace quickened and really didn't feel too good with my dead legs. Did out and back towards Home Depot, and it was dead into the wind coming home. Our pace fell to low 7 minute miles before Mike and I decided to slow it down (what happened to the slow, easy long runs?) and Ken and Crystal zoomed off. Ran 10 miles at 1:20:18 (I think), then went home to grab a small bite to eat before going back out and running Megan in from her long run. Caught up to her with roughly 4 miles to go, then ran her in. A solid morning of running, then off to the golf course for 27 holes at Sunset Hills. Shot 82 for my first round of the year, and got hot with the putter on the back nine and additional nine. Maybe need to consult Tiger and give him some tips. 45.5 miles this week, 164.5 miles for February, 330 miles for 2012.
Monday, February 27th - 4 miles + drills + strides. Big River group run with Timmy, Pat, Crystal, and Megan. Ran with Tim, then Crystal and I did drills and strides at DuBourgh. Legs were completely on fire, and felt like garbage.
Tuesday, February 28th - 8 miles. Met up with Cristina after work for a Forest Park loop. Great weather, lots of people outside, nice to have it not be dark at 5 p.m. Felt pretty tired, then went home and did 2 miles slow (270 loop). Nice and slow.
Wednesday, February 29th - 9 miles (2 up, 2 mile tempo, 1 mile tempo, 8x400, 2 down). Met Tim after work at Wash. U track to do some work. Some pretty ridiculous winds all day (25-35 mph winds, I'm guessing), so was going to be very challenging. Reworked my plan so I could do mile repeats with Crystal later this week, so decided to do tempo run instead. Legs were pretty tired, and was not looking forward to this. Haven't been to the Wash U track since 1999 (watched Ken run a college meet there), so was nice to get on the track - beautiful facilities, and an awesome infield with astroturf or whatever the NFL stadiums are using now for indoor stadiums. Wash U's track team was out there working as well, so definitely had to work with the lane situation since those skinny college athletes are faster than the wind. Anyways, my warmup pretty much told me it was going to be a tough day, so got right into the tempo after some stretching. Felt ok after the first mile, but fell apart quickly after - the wind was brutal, and it was literally like running into a wall. I was getting blown into other lanes, and was just hanging on for dear life. Quit after the 2nd mile - was just completely dead. I felt like I had run an 8 mile tempo at 6 minute pace. Took a break, decided to modify the workout and run 1 mile really fast, then 1 mile at pace. Well, fought and clawed my way towards 1 more mile, before deciding I couldn't really do too much more - just getting destroyed out there by Mother Nature and her winds of fury, so then jumped into Tim's 400 meter repeat workout. Legs were dead at this point, and made it a point to try to run at 5K pace which was tough. Had problems pacing because of the wind, but hit solid splits. 2 mile cooldown to end it - was exhausted. Went down to the Loop for dinner and a brew at a place called Market Pub House - pretty much a college sports bar, but great prices and good beer. Trivia was going on, so got sucked into that and ended up winning a couple rounds - fun times. 2 mile tempo time was: 12:17 (6:07, 6:10). Mile tempo was: 5:52 (I think Garmin may have been short though, beeped earlier than I thought, but I was running in lane 4 and 5 so maybe it was right). 400 meter splits were: 1:28, 1:28, 1:27, 1:29, 1:28, 1:30, 1:27, 1:18 (let the last 200 meter loose!). 185.5 miles for February, 351 miles for 2012.
So definitely starting to feel some fatigue from this last month of workouts. But it all ends soon as I race the next 4 weekends, so only 1 workout early in the week and easy mileage elsewise. Mile repeats sometime this weekend, then hope to get in 1 more tempo next week before Toolen's 5K next Sunday!
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