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

Time: lunch
Where: bellevue dt park
Workout: 5 miles, including intervals of 1′ on 1’30” off x 9
Notes and observations: not much. I’m tired and cranky, thinking ahead to 9 miles tomorrow …
Music: my new ‘run, playlist which includes all of the usual suspects.

Time: before work
Where: gym
Workout: 5 miles
Notes and observations: treadmill, blah.
Music: Beat the bridge playlist

Time: 4pm
Where: Burke Gilman, heading N(E)
Workout: 5 miles. Miles 1 & 5 were warm up / cool down. Miles 2-4 were intervals. 1′ on, 1’30 off x 10.
Notes and observations: none right now. Gearing up for my first 9 miler tomorrow.
Music: Beat the Bridge Playlist

Time: 2pm
Where: Burke Gilman trail Bryant to Matthews Beach and back, with a little side trip to a fancy neighborhood.
Workout: 6 miles
Notes and observations: got a little lost in my attempt to veer off the beaten path aka the B-G Trail. Fortunately I was able to weave myself back to … The B-G! Ha. Mile 4 included the uphill sidebar (whatever neighborhood I bumped into, it was niiiiice. I felt like I didn’t belong)
1:01.46
Mile 1: 10.07
2: 9.28
3: 8.31
4: 15.03
5: 9.33
6: 9.02
Music: beat the bridge playlist

Time: 7:45ish am

Where: Burke Gilman Trail, Sandpoint headed northeast

Workout: 4 Miles easy

Notes & Observations: So the official work out was “easy”, which I completely forgot about until I was about 3.75 miles into the run. Oops. I’ve been toying with the idea of running the Top Pot 5K in late April, which will be a good benchmark of how my speed has progressed over the past 4+ months. Perhaps in my subconscious I was testing myself today. It’s the first Monday run I’ve done in a while, and the first short(er) distance I’ve done (as part of a plan, not by accident). So I found myself doing a nice strong fourth mile when I remembered this was an easy day. Oh well. Better luck next time. Let’s hope today’s run cancels out the amazing hi-hat cupcake I had over the weekend, courtesy of Trophy.

Oh, by the way, I purchased a new running jacket this weekend, which likely assures us warmer weather from here on out, murphy’s law and all.

36.20

Mile 1: 8.55

2: 9.10

3: 9.26

4: 8.49

Music: My old ‘beat the bridge’ playlist.

Time: 7:45 am

Where: Burke-Gilman Trail, Sandpoint to Wall of Death & back

Workout: 7 miles, LSD.

Nothing too different to report. Finally some dry weather again. Taking some days off of work and I’m looking forward to some time to run and workout. I can also scout out some new routes. As much as I love living close to the B-G, and to a specific mile-marker at that, it’s getting kind of old.

1:06.11

Mile 1: 9.33

2: 9.19

3: 9.25

4: 9.32

5: 9.34

6: 9.23

7: 9.27

Music: My iPod on shuffle.

Time: lunch, noonish
Where: Bellevue DT park
Workout: five-ish miles.
One mile+ warm up. Then 1′ on, 1:30 off x 9 (total of 6 loops around the park), then .75 mi cool down run back to work.
Notes and observations: This interval routine is kind of nice. Those runners going counter-clockwise, you who go down the stairs instead of up … Wusses! Then again, I can also feel myself fading a bit. My lust for fit life not so lustful these days. I’m hoping my week off from work can shake that up a bit.
Music: my 1,000 song playlist, in what might have been sorted by most played. Nice.

Time: lunch
Where: around Bellevue, just north of downtown
Workout: 5 miles, the goal was to increase tempo but …
Notes and observations: I was freezing. It was raining and I was not dressed appropriately. Spent the second half just trying to not freeze. Tempo didn’t happen, though the route was nice and hilly. Last half was more traffic lights than I like.
Music: My entire iPod on shuffle.