Good Start to the Week

Tonight's speed session went way, way better than last week's did. I ran 6x800m, and I was able to hit my target pace on each repeat. It felt good to start my training week with a productive workout. Now I am that much more convinced that my struggles last week were carryover effects of my pushing too hard the previous week; running three days in a row and barely making it through my long run.

Monday was an off day as planned, and I was going to hit the track and run on Tuesday night, but the truth is that I was just way too lazy. I was in bed and watching TV by about 7:00pm and ended up falling asleep about 9:00pm. I was exhausted and needed the sleep. I have been putting in a lot of hours at work and there has been a lot going on, so it has been more stressful than usual. We had an FDA inspection last week, which went great (no 483 observations), but was stressful nonetheless. I led the tour through my area and had to speak a little about our manufacturing process. I really wasn't nervous, and everything went just fine, but there was still a high level of tension in the plant. I am also having a few personnel issues, which are never fun to deal with, but they do need to be handled directly and appropriately.

The other reason that I didn't run on Tuesday was that it was pouring rain outside. It started to rain on Sunday afternoon and didn't stop completely until Wednesday morning. The nice thing is that the rain brought in a cold front. This front has cooled things down significantly. The high today was only about 68 degrees, with highs in the lower to mid 60s on Monday and Tuesday. It was only about 66 when I went over to the track at around 7:30pm tonight. There was also a nice breeze blowing which helped me to cool down after my workout.

Tonight's run was a promising start to the week. I am hopeful that my other two workouts will yield similar results.