More snow

Goals for the pros for 2014, Mo is loving the marathon training, one last hurrah for Paula?, Haile to target the Masters marathon record, and Bernard Lagat.

Friday, January 31st - 6 miles (3 up, 10 x hills, 1 down).  A fun hill workout during some sleet, after work.  Village Circle loop for 3 mile warmup, then was looking for any hill on that route to do for the workout, which was 10 x 30 seconds at hard pace (close to mile pace).  Eventually worked my way back to the small hill closeby, since all the other hills were too short.  Let me preface that at this point of the evening, the sleet was coming down and the trails/sidewalks were unrunnable, and I wanted to stay away from all traffic if possible so there weren't too many options.  Anyways, the workout went by pretty quickly, and did some good work.  Legs were pretty tired afterwards, as I made it hurt the last few reps.  1 mile cooldown around the neighborhood, in the grass.  165 miles in January, 165 for 2014.  Slow start to the year, but I'm working at it!

Saturday, February 1st - 8 miles.  Run with Crystal in the early afternoon.  Because of the downpour, we postponed till the afternoon.  Out and back on the trails towards Home Depot, and we intentionally kept it slow.  Effort felt fine, and this run went by rather quickly.  64:24 total (32:16/32:08 splits).

Sunday, February 2nd - 0!  Not my finest moment to miss a long run, and my pure laziness just trumped all.  Opted to play Madden on Playstation with Coach Kyle on Super Bowl Sunday, and we had a big FAIL for the day.  40 miles this week, 8 miles in February, 173 miles for 2014.

Monday, February 3rd - ~8 miles + strides.  I thought we had an easy 6, but turned out to be an hour that I got dragged out for.  Looped on the trail towards the track, then hit up Ebbets Field and Vicksburg to get in ~44 minutes before doing 4 hard strides on the track.  Picked it up coming back home, and was pretty much on cruise control for the most part.  The day off did wonders, for sure.  8 miles in 1:01 and some change, and ran a little extra at the end.

More snow headed our way this afternoon, which will make my track workout pretty interesting.  Easy mileage otherwise this week, then running the Bridge 6K for a workout on Saturday for the first race of the year!