“Ahem. Nothing to see here sir. Enjoy your run.”

Training Journal – 5/5/13:

• Current plan: Big Sur Marathon Recovery Week (haha) / Horseshoe Lake 50K Training Plan
• Today’s session: 20 mile trail run
• Comments: At about mile 15, I did a “systems check” and wasn’t feeling a “20 miler” today, so I only did 18. Today was really about the time running, as I wanted to be out for four hours in prep for my 50K. I was out for 3:38:31 (doing a 12:04 overall pace avg / 11:26 moving pace avg) and did a mix of running, jogging and fast walking. Sheesh, you’d think I’d run a marathon a week ago or something!  I’m hoping a taper week ahead of my 50K will be the difference – I did run 24.15 miles this week after my marathon.  We’ll see!
  
• Weekly mileage: Running: 42.26 / Bicycling: 0

We made a quick trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium today. Out of all that’s there, it’s the jellies that I could stare at for hours…

Captivating…

oh yeah, they have seahorses too…

Training Journal – 4/17/13:

• Current plan: Big Sur Marathon Training Plan – W17D3 (Taper week 2)
• Today’s session: 6 mile easy run @ 8:27-9:28 pace
• Comments: I did 6.39 @ 7:43. I guess it turned out to be a speed work day instead…felt good!

I was working in the backyard today and this little guy caught my eye traversing our lawn…

Training Journal – 3/30/13:

• Current plan: Big Sur Marathon Training Plan – W14D6
• Today’s session: Rest
• Comments: Rest

Enjoy…and run!

Training Journal – 3/23/13:

• Current plan: Big Sur Marathon Training Plan – W13D6
• Today’s session: Rest
• Comments: Rest!

On my outbound flight last week, I read about the Postcard On The Run app in the Southwest Airlines Magazine. It was free, so I downloaded it and used it while in San Antonio to send my wife a postcard of a picture I took on my morning run.
Pretty cool for $1.49!

Training Journal – 3/18/13:

• Current plan: Big Sur Marathon Training Plan – W13D1
• Today’s session: Cross Train: 60 minute bike ride Rest Day
• Comments: Since I did the half marathon on Saturday and a recovery run yesterday, I moved my weekend rest day to today

Today’s meals were sponsored by the letter “P”:

• Breakfast: Pancakes
• Lunch: PB&J & Pretzels
• Dinner: Pancakes

Evening snack will be an international fare:

• Swedish Fish – läckra! (incidentally, fish in Portuguese is “peixe”)
• Brazilian-influenced, chocolate Barnanas – delicioso! (bummer, no “P” reference to be found on this one!

BOOYAH – have a great weekend!

Training Journal – 3/9/13:

• Current plan: Big Sur Marathon Training Plan – W11/D6
• Today’s session: Rest
• Comments: Rest…