"Give me your kings let me squeeze them in my hands, your puny princes your so called leaders of your land, I'll eat them whole before I'm done the battle's fought and the game is won I am the one, the only one I am the god of kingdom come gimme the prize, just gimme the prize"
Gimme The Prize-Queen
A so so week in training having made peace w/ not pursuing the Philadelphia Marathon time to embrace the here and now and getting ready for Fall Road Race Season.........
Tuesday October 14th Having gotten spoiled last week running a rare Monday thro Thursday rotation it was perhaps inevitable this week there'd be a day I couldn't get out and run.......turned out to be Monday, however when life gives ye Lemons ye should make Lemonade and I took full advantage of a three day mini brake which was as good physically as it was mentally
I shaved 2 100ths of a second off my previous 5 mile recovery run on Thursday w/ a 43.11.1 off 8.37 mile pace thanks to splits of:9.02-8.42-8.44-8.33-8.09,would've been grand if miles 2 and 3 been the other way around then I would have had 5 miles that got progressively quicker.......then again I'm not Barbie and I can't have everything!!!!!
After three days of feckin' rain and gray skies it was nice to see the sun again even if the humidity was higher than the temperature 65 degrees 68% humidity
Wednesday October 15th Fuck sake we're half way through the month already, feckin' month has flown by! an untimed 5 miles today........possibly my favourite run of the week as I don't have to worry about speed, pace, mile splits etc kinda nice to just run on auto pilot if ye like
69 degrees and 52% humidity......were it not for the rain on Monday this would've been my Tempo run......but knowing what was coming down the tracks weather wise tomorrow I wasn't too upset.........
Thursday October 16th I know close only counts in a game of Horseshoes but feck me today was awful close to a PR!!!!!!!
62 degrees but a mere 22% humidity to quote Budgie star of the upcoming single by The 2 Johnnies "The Auld Lad In The Pub" "unbelievable like, ye'd get that fuckin' nowhere!!!!", for all my considerable bollixin' about the weather{ tis an Irish thing, shur we love to complain about the feckin' weather!!} today was as close to idyllic conditions period,much less in the back half of October
39.21.5 off 7.46 mile pace, three seconds slower than I ran on October 1st, glass half full anything that's sub 40 is always welcome, glass half empty the last mile just got away from me my splits were:7.52-7.42-7.44-7.58-8.05 so I'll be working on that in the coming weeks
Given my recent " defection" to Ben Franklin Parkway,Kelly Dr,Sedgley Dr and Lemon Hill Dr for the hills for my upcoming races it was nice to get back to the Schuylkill River Trail, it's pancake flat and miles 2 thro 4 are uninterrupted ideal for the tempo run
Friday October 17th It's gotten to the point where the Pagan gods don't even bat an eyelid when I'm out running on a Friday anymore.....just sit and nod at each other thinking " we knew ye'd be back out there on the Pagan Sabbath ye Fenian bastard!!!!"
Another glorious day weather wise 64 degrees and 30% humidity, I know these days can't last forever so I try to cherish them while they last, won't be that long now b4 I'm bitchin' about the cold!
44.29.1 off 8.54 mile pace, a recovery run that wasn't that much slower than my easy run 1.18 for those of ye so inclined to look these things up........
Sunday October 19th For the first time in weeks/months the unbearable weight of needing a long run for a potential Marathon wasn't hanging over me, I will say since I made the decision not to run the Philly Marathon in 5 weeks time I have felt unburdened by that, it's allowing me to focus on the upcoming races period w/out having to keep one eye on the marathon and since I now can't get into either the half marathon or the 8k that weekend as for the second year in a row all three races have sold out and the Penn Relays 5k now clashes w/ the Rocky Run on November 8th and not the 15th I'm only looking at three weekends in a row of races not five b4 a weekend off over Thanksgiving b4 the season finale Schuylkill River Loop this year restored to an actual loop and not an out and back as it has been for the last two years
I was maybe over ambitious thinking I could run 14 miles today, I have to go back to August 30th for my last successful long run at 12 miles, the 14 miler I ran on Sept 14th was a little stop/start over the final 4 miles and my failures over 16 miles have been well documented here in recent weeks, ergo the decision not to pursue a marathon right now
When I reached mile 5 of my run approaching the Mann Music Center in Fairmount Park I kinda knew I didn't have it to go 14 miles so I turned around and headed back the way I came hoping for a minimum of 10 miles.......#Notions....
Having gone out at a reasonable pace of 8.35-8.51-8.38-8.43-9.03-8.58 for the opening 6 miles I was a little alarmed when mile 7 ballooned up to 9.12 and when I saw 9.36 for mile 8 I said feck it, no point grinding out two slow arsed miles to round up to 10 and called it a day at mile 8
1.10.16 off 8.57 mile.......of course it's the feckin' weekend and the temps went up....75 degrees and 57% humidity.........
28 miles for the week, 68 for the month, a potential 25 miles on tap this coming week would leave me at 93 miles going into the final week of October w/ a potential{weather and work permitting} 20 miles to finish October at 113 miles all food for thought but right now this coming week the focus is getting ready for next Sunday and the Radnor Run.
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