Don't call it a comeback

Bolt, Allyson Felix, and attempt at marathon in a suit world record.

Tuesday, September 4th - 4.5 miles.  Ran with Timmy after work around Francis Park.  It was 94, sunny, and just uber humid.  This last week of nasty weather has been just God-awful!  Intentionally kept it slow, and every step was painful.  Not my idea of fun, but had scored some all inclusive Cardinals tickets for the night and needed to get a workout in so I didn't feel too bad destroying a few hot dogs and beer.  39:30 total, and it was tough the entire way.

Wednesday, September 5th - 6.5 miles.  Happy NFL Opening Day game!  Another ridiculous hot day, so ended up thinking I was going to skip this run.  Watched the game, then watch part of the U.S. Open Quarterfinals match before guilting myself to go run at 10:30 p.m.  Did a new loop around town, one without as many stop and turns, and may do this new loop from now on since it's a lot smoother than my other one.  It was nasty humid still, but no sun so wasn't too warm.  I was soaked in sweat within 10 minutes though.  Felt ok for the most part, but glad to get this in.  50 minutes or so (47:55 - 8:19, 8:26, 8:02, 7:56, 7:50, 7:19 then jogged the last 0.5 mile in).

Thursday, September 6th.  7 miles.  Got home from work, and it looked like a big storm was going through. Cool, overcast, and windy - had to take advantage of this now.  So did out and back towards Troy on the trail - went out pretty fast and slowed it down, but then decided to incorporate a couple miles of tempo in there since I have done virtually 0 speedwork this summer - not to mention, it was actually nice and cool and wanted to take advantage of the conditions.  Tempo pace didn't feel too hot, and felt my body relaxing and surging a lot so need to work on speed some more.  But overall very satisfied as 2 miles tempo felt not awful (lol) and rewarded myself with a 1 mile cooldown, then a session of P90X Ab Ripper.  42:47 for the 6 miles (7:14, 7:10, 7:45, 7:31, 6:34, 6:24).

Actually another decent week of runniing coming around.  Easy mileage tonight, group long run is on the docket for Saturday, then will attempt to get in some mileage on Sunday to hopefully hit 40+.  Feeling good!