A Crappy Long Run, But a Record Week!

It's ironic that the last run of this week was so crappy, but the week as a whole was record breaking.  Saturday is "long run day," but I knew it wasn't going to be spectacular.  I had no plan (which might pose a problem), had been sleeping pretty crappy the previous few nights (which is a problem), and just wasn't looking forward to it like I should have.  Ended up not even setting my alarm, and finally convinced myself at 5:45am that if I was going to do this, I had to get up.  Saturday was forecast to be warm and get even warmer very quickly.  What started off as "I'll do 22 miles," quickly went to "maybe 20 miles;" after that, I started to consider scrapping it at 10 if I could do another 10 later in the day.  (That's a stupid move for anyone considering it; if time's not an issue, why cut the run into two parts like that, especially if it's not during relay training?!)  I told myself to suck it up and get to 15 miles.  The problem was that was exactly what I did on Christmas, so how much of a "long run" would that really be?  Ok, 16 is the next logical spot to go, right?  Well, at that point, you're beyond 2 hours but not quite at 2 and a half hours.  I reasoned with myself that if I was going to do a bit more than 2 hours, I could deal with getting to 2 and a half hours.  That would've put me just a tiny bit under 17 miles, so the final decision was to go to 17 and stop there.  Mission accomplished!

Despite the fact that this was probably my crappiest and shortest "long run" since finishing my marathon in October, it still was a record week.  Funny, right?  I guess the stars just aligned, and with it being the first week of winter break, I could run whenever I wanted and for as long as I wanted.  (Seriously, when else would 15 miles happen on a Thursday of all days?!)  During my marathon training, there was one week towards the end that should've had me at 51 total miles; it didn't happen because of my toe problem and needing to scale back on running for a few days.  (A full "toe recap" can be found here for your reading pleasure.)  Well, at long last, I can say that I hit topped 50 miles in a week...twice!  Last week's total was 51-point-something, and this week's total is 54.6 miles.  Awesome stuff!

Now it's time to scale back; January's 6 hour ultra is a mere 2 weeks away at this point!  Are you ready?  Grandma is!  She got a 2 bottle delivery from Wine.com that had strict instructions to save one bottle for the 11th!