Week 9: Penultimate

This has been a really interesting one. Between my inability (still) to cope with the time change and all the running around that goes with the end of fall classes I was really having a hard time getting in my miles. Add to that a handful of days when I just didn't feel up to it and you have all the makings of a conundrum burrito.

Believed to be extinct, fossil records suggest conundrus wrapuperous would have looked something like this.

Unlike a frustration taco or a combo of despair, the conundrum burrito is relatively easy to choke down. In this case, I decided that while I did want to stick to the plan in abstract, I didn't believe that I was doing myself any favors working out when I was tired enough to sleep. If I were training for some sort of twenty-four hour endurance race I might feel differently, but I'm not, so I don't.

That said, I still ended up getting in three quality runs, including a set of 800 yard intervals and a six mile tempo run that averaged out at a 7:39 mile. All in all, I feel pretty decent about the state of my fitness. I'm lighter and in better shape than I was this time last year. I'll be posting my actual race day strategy later this week, so I won't get into that now except to say that I feel like I have a much better grasp of a13.1 psychology this year. More on that later.