As promised, here is the weekly training summary only one day late (though it is quite late on that one day). Although I promised Dan that I would run each day, I did miss a day due to a car accident in which I was fortunately unhurt. Nevertheless, I did run 50.2 miles in 6:08:02 (7:20/mile average) with a 5k race in 17:07 in there, too. As a point of correction, I only got 6th place at the race, but it was still good enough to help my new company take the prize!
Other than the race, this week was pretty much characterized by only two runs of decent length, a 10-miler and my weekly long run. The rest were shorter and more restful. It was a good start towards getting back into training, but it's a long way from where I'd like to be. My long run involved taking a less direct route to the top of Castle Craig which is always a cool place to check out. Plus, running to the top of a mountain in the middle of a 16-miler is never shabby.
The final thing that happened on the running front occurred over the weekend. On Friday I was talking to my project manager and mentioned that I was only running about half of what I used to. He asked how far I used to run and I mentioned that I had spent quite a bit of time running 80 miles/week. I saw him in the parking lot on the way in to work and the first thing that he said was that that had stuck with him all weekend and that I must have a "life-long devotion to running". At first I didn't like that characterization because I like to think of myself as multi-dimensional, but later I realized that he said I had a life-long devotion to running, not that I had devoted my life to running, which I think is true. I think I'm starting to get a bit hungrier towards running success after this week. We shall have to see what happens.
-Lane
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