Time: morning
Where: Bryant to Lake Union, around Lake Union and back via B-G Trail
Workout: 12, yes! 12 miles LSD
Notes and observations: Woot! Finished right at my goal, 2 hours. For the first time tried both bringing water and taking a sip every mile, and also doing a gel at the 60 min mark. Not sure if that is what caused my stomach pains or what. But, I’ll have to keep trying as I know I’ll want to for the race. Great weather for running.
Music: Foo Fighters on very softly. My ipod did not charge well even though it was plugged into a charger all night. Boo.

Time: lunch
Where: DT Bellevue Park
Workout: the usual 5 miles interval routine
Notes and observations: Long work week. I was out of gas and could feel it. Gearing up for 12 miles on Mother’s Day. Woot!
Music: random running playlist

Time: 7:45 am
Where: Burke Gilman Trail heading towards Fremont
Workout: 10 miles LSD
Notes and observations: The most important thing I learned is that Fremont’s section of the B-G does not have mile markers, that I could see at least. So miles 5 & 6 were slightly more than expected. Couple of interesting notes. 1) At some point in the run, I get cold. On this day it was around mile 8 that I had to put my long sleeve shirt back on. 2) Almost immediately following putting the shirt back on, I felt a second wind. I can’t entirely explain it except that I found myself running much faster than the previous couple of miles, and it felt really really good. My splits may not show this, because there was an extensively long traffic light I had to wait for during this time. But, it felt surprisingly good and I really took note of it. 3) I really need to learn to take and drink water during these longer runs. Gels, too. I could feel myself emptying, which is just a terrible feeling.
Music: Foo Fighters on shuffle, of course! “The Pretender” is a good song that picks me up whenever it plays. Same goes for “Times Like These” and “These Days”. Yeah!

Time: lunch
Where: around bellevue
Workout: 3.5 miles
Notes and observations: So. Mapmyrun reports that the run I’ve been doing the past couple of weeks that I thought was around 4 miles, is actually only 3.5! So what I thought was an excellent time of around 35 minutes is actually quite slow! But I’ll give myself an out and remind everyone that there are several traffic lights that I wait for during this run. Okay, about 2 traffic lights. My mid-week runs are not at the level they are supposed to be, but time has been short lately. Work has been C-R-A-Z-Y, so I’m just happy to be doing something.
Music: Green Day, American Idiot. I think. Who knows?  Now I remember … it was my “run” playlist that i started. Lots of Killers and Foo.

Hey! Today was my anniversary! I spent it at work. Woo.

Time: lunch
Where: Bellevue downtown park
Workout: 5 miles with intervals 1′ on 1’30” off x 9
Notes and observations: My big fear, I lose track of how many loops I ran. The goal was 7 but it might have been 6. I still did 9 intervals, though.
Times was under 40 min, which is why I suspect I missed a loop (so 4.5 instead of 5 miles). Oh well. It happens.
Music: can’t remember!

Time: lunch

Where: bellevue

Workout: 4+miles 35:32

Notes and observations: My mantra today was ‘something is better than nothing’. Work was quite busy and my goal of 6 miles shrunk to 5 to finally 4, which I was easily able to manage within an hour, including changing and shower. I think my time was around 34 minutes on a nice, rolling hills kind of route. I will consider this week a break from the half-marathon training, and focus on speed for the 5K I’m doing at Green Lake on Sunday.

Music: Green Day, American Idiot