7/28/08- Nice nighttime Marengo-huntington especial with Robert K. His first 8 miler. We went rather slow the for the first 7 miles, thanks to a very filling and super fancy dinner at the President’s house with the Faculty board and the board of trustees. Put in a ‘surge’ in the last mile down to 7:40-7:35 pace to drop Robert for a bit. Stomach kept acting up, heart burn, not too bad.
Miles: 8
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7/29/08- RB tempo time, but a bit different than usual. Wasn’t planning on doing a tempo originally, but Ian caught me while he was cooling down from the RB ride and the pace started to creep up as we went up the hill, and eventually turning into 6 min and then 5:45 pace down hill with Ian pacing. Easy, but lengthy cool down through pas.
Miles: 12.1
7/30/08- Traveling home. Shouldn’t have been a day off but I planned poorly.
Miles: 0
7/31/08- 6 easy and very sweaty miles on the RR trails. Sooooo humid!!!
Miles: 6
8/1/08- 6 easy at the beach. It is still really really humid even in Delaware at the beach. Much much worse than West coast beach running.
Miles: 6
8/2/08- Long run. Got up early, i.e. 10:15 to find a rainy, 100% humidity, 85 degree rehobeth beach. Pretty good luck. Ran up to the board walk and then to Cape Henlopen State Park. Ran around some trail that closed a mile in, but we kept going. It descended into the swamp and was very overgrown. Now 90 degrees, the ground almost lost into the bog, we entered an area that looked more promising, until Tim tells me, “Garrett you are covered in bugs” Soon we were swarmed by biting flies, literally swarmed. A quick look at my watch revealed 50 minutes and a quick sprint the opposite direction ensued. We just went straight back, pushing the pace a bit. Soon we were both incredibly dehydrated and slowed down, falling off the pace. Total time was ~1:40. My legs weren’t tired, just felt pretty shitty.
p.m. walked 4 miles along the beach to the next town up. I won’t count this as running, but my legs were feeling it a bit.
Miles: 14(?)
8/3/08 – 5 miles medium easy around da hood. Humidity was shockingly low at 50% so the run was rather bareable. I promised I would do 1 mile for every drink last night and low and behold I successfully did so. In other words DH’s 21st party was a success and Alex managed to streak across the beach at 2 a.m. in front of all the girls. kudos. Also I went to the Nike outlet store where I bought 2 pairs of running shorts, two pairs of running socks, and a pair of Nike zoom waffle spikes for 49.96. Amazing.
Miles: 5
Weekly Miles: 51
Week 13: My goal for this week is return to peak mileage and get in some quality running. 70 shouldn't be too hard, but hopefully we can avoid anymore 100% humidity runs like the delaware long run nightmare. The goal for the next 3 weeks is 70,70,80, down/start of XC. Sounds good and reasonable.
8/4/08 – Solid Medium run with the Tim, aka the bro, aka Vag boy, aka the other Drayna. Nice hilly run at sub 8 min pace 5 miles out, then 2 miles of 200m hill pick ups (x10) medium, then 4 miles back. Cruising at 7:45 pace the whole way felt great, low humidity too.
Miles: 11.2
8/5/08- a.m. – very easy morning run to the pool house and back in 16 and change minutes.
Miles: 1.8
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