SO ( bet ya thought I was gonna say well, didn't ya?)

Ran the "Ghouls and Fools" 7 mile night time trail race in Reading PA. I LOVED IT. I ran hard most of the way. I tried to pace it till half way through out of fear I'd blow up, but half way through got a strong second wind (looking at the elevation profile I see why; most of the second half is relatively down hill). Man, loads of fun. A good, hard effort, yet I didn't feel redlined really, only on some of the hills. I could have run it much harder I think, shaved some time off. I'm real pleased though, 90 out of 305 runners. 1:10:10. Racing is a lot of fun. I want MORE! Yo.

Well...

..I always seem to start my posts with Well. Oh well.

Took yesterday off. Felt 100% today when I got out of bed, for the first time! Fantastic. Ran till hr hit 160, not till somewhere in mile 3, good news. Felt easy till then too. Hips started hurting at that point, running got harder, more uncoordinated, right achilles started hurting. I feel fine now. This is all data for the machine. I'm probably conditioned to run about 3 miles at that effort. Tomorrow, long run, then recuperate. My sweet spot seems to be 145-154. After that, things get harder. It's probably good to run up to 160 as it pushes the adaptive envelope. Who knows. Just keep running, thank you Lord I can without too much pain. I'm not breaking down. Motivation is still high, I'm still excited to run in the woods. Keep up the shorter intense runs till they get easy then pump up the volume.