Sub-Four, Now Boston

Easy 4 tonight on the DM at the AC. Legs still a little rubbery from two hard runs yesterday; no real surprise there. Just chugged through it with the benefit of an oscillating fan in front of me. Sure do prefer finishing a four-miler not feeling like I'd been working out in a steam room. The muscles get the same benefit and I don't dehydrate. Anyway, probably won't run tomorrow or Friday, although I may put in 2-3 late miles after we get to Springdale tomorrow night before the big 5 a.m. interview on Friday. Then try to bust one Saturday at Firecracker, and that PR firmed up a bit. Not expecting anything huge this soon after a marathon, but my overall conditioning should let me get in under 22, I hope.

Didn't get to run Monday night; we were looking on the Net for possible places to live. So I decided to get up early to run at the AC. Good thing the cat got hungry at 5:45 a.m., because I set the alarm for 6 PM. But the furry alarm clock took care of that, I got up, went over there, ran a hard 5 with the last 400 at 6:00 pace. Took me just 44 minutes. Good thing the treadmills weren't in heavy demand this morning.

Tonight I decided to do something I may not have done since high school. Or maybe not even then -- two tough workouts in one day. One easy, one hard, sure, but I pushed it pretty good this morning, then pushed it even harder tonight. Back on the treadmill, thanks to heavy later afternoon rains (that made things much cooler but also put puddles on the track at East Campus) for intervals. Two and a quarter warmup with a stretch break tucked in there, then 9 X 200 at 6:00. That pace felt a lot faster tonight than the same pace did this morning, not sure why. I ran 400 at pace this morning and a mile-plus tonight. Then 1.62 of cooldown afterward, total 6. Eleven total for the day, with nearly a mile and a half of haulin'. Anyway, the legs responded, got through it OK without a wipeput on the dreadmill, and now I have four full days of backdown before Firecracker on Saturday (which I entered today).

Easy 3 on the DM, except the right ITB decided to act up. The RIGHT ITB almost never acts up, so this was unusual, but it just seemed to be sore, not injured, and didn't get worse. We'll see if this continues.