Update 9/17 No Garmin for the long run, and Hill repeats

I forgot to charge my Garmin and now I have no proof that I ran 10 miles on Saturday, what am I going to do?????  Oh yeah I am going to run 10 miles again next week, it will all be okay.  I am not sure I liked the naked feeling of running without any knowledge of how far or long I had ran.  It may not have been so bad had the Garmin not still been strapped onto my wrist making snide comments about how I forgot to charge the damn thing.  Hopefully I will charge it from now on.

So this week on our training schedule we had hill training scheduled for Tuesday.  I, in my infinite wisdom, figured this would be a piece of cake since I run hills everyday in my neighborhood.  BOY WAS I WRONG.  I ran eight hill repeats on what I heard others call, the hill from hell, and it was all I could do to keep everything I had eaten that day inside my body. 

Hill from hell

After completing the hill repeats I had to take Brock to batting practice, so no ice bath.  This as I found out the next day was a big mistake.  My legs were very sore and I was sure my tempo run scheduled for Thursday was not going to go well.

  10/11   4.51 miles    47:08
  10/12   2.61 miles    39:37 <- Hill repeats
  10/14   3.89 miles    35:02
  10/16 10.00 miles 1:35:00 <- approx: no garmin
            21.01 miles total

Update 9/26 10/3 10/10

Wow is all I can really say, the last three weeks of training have been great.  The long runs are getting longer but yet seem shorter, the hills are becoming routine and the weather has been spectacular.  As for the long runs getting longer but seeming shorter, I owe that all to the Round Rock Fit training group, you guys rock.

Lessons learned:

The second pair of properly fitting shoes are not as comfortable as the first.

Mexican food the night before a long run is not such a great idea.

Shotblocks are very chewy when it is cold outside.

Need to find a stronger laundry detergent.

  9/20   4.11 miles    40:47
  9/21   4.19 miles    40:43
  9/23   4.67 miles    43:40
  9/25   7.04 miles 1:08:26
          20.00 miles total

  9/27   3.74 miles    35:57
  9/28   3.81 miles    39:32
  9/30   3.61 miles    36:44
10/02   8.00 miles  1:15:01
       19.16 miles total 

10/04   4.24 miles    43:16
10/05   3.32 miles    32:11
10/07   4.51 miles    40:24
10/09   9.00 miles 1:24:01
         21.07 miles total