Okay…let’s tackle the obvious first. Last Friday I was offered a job in Spokane, Washington. The job is something I’ve been very interested in for many, many years. I will be the Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM)!\u00a0 So it’s nice that it finally came to fruition.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, Lisa and I have been frantically de-junking the house and making a plan. I am awaiting official paperwork before I can list the house. When it does come to moving, we’ll be driving a little over 2,000 miles in mid January!! The dead of winter!! Hopefully El Nino will be in full swing…which spells drier and warmer than normal for the northwest. We’ll see.<\/p>\n
Now let’s talk about my training for the St. Jude half marathon in Downtown Memphis on December 5. The training has been going really, really good – considering all the recent changes. A couple of weeks ago, I ran 44 miles over the week. That was about 8 miles farther than the previous week. I found out the next week, that this was too much. I started getting a scratchy throat and my running performance and heart rate really suffered. My heart rate would not recover much after a tough – but too short run.<\/p>\n
This week I ran 6 miles on Tuesday. Then ran 3 – mile intervals at 6:50 pace. I then ran an easy 3 miles yesterday. Today I did a tempo run for 50 minutes split up with 10 minutes warmup, 10 minutes at 7:30 pace, 10 minutes at 7:00 pace, then 10 minutes at 6:30 pace…and had 10 minutes of cool down. I feel really good and strong. I will say that the 10 minutes at 6:30 pace was very difficult. Tomorrow I have a 5 mile pace run. I’m looking forward to how I respond to that. My long run will take place on Sunday evening. I’m a little off schedule…because I had to go out of town last Sun-Tues.<\/p>\n
I will be comparing my performance with the data from the last half marathon training. I think I’m on track to do the half marathon at my goal pace of 6:52. I do have some concerns that make me doubt…but I really need to trust my training. I still have 4 weeks to train too. So time is on my side. Hopefully I can remain healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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