It's not so much the heat.....

Yeah yeah yeah. I can't stop talking about the heat.

So after the 5K on Saturday night, we spent the night rehashing 5K war stories with the first-timer that I spoke about below, this guy (who ran a killer of a 5K earlier in the day) and his wife, these guys and a few other friends who don't have websites…can you believe that? No personal website. In this day and age. Anyway, we stayed up way too late, and since we were with the band (actually, it's my brother), we partied like rock-stars. Well, truth be told, that's a lie. Actually, I partied like a 33 year old who had kids sleeping upstairs. But we did stay up past midnight, so that's saying something. Isn't it?

So after Saturday night's festivities, I was too tired to get up early and run on Sunday so I put it off until midday and did get the 15 miles in that I needed to get to 100. I was hoping to do 20, but wasn't too disappointed with 15. It was hot when I started the run around noon, and even hotter when I finished. Again, not an ideal week as far as long runs go, but there was some quality in there and now with the short races out of the way, hopefully I can get back to solid consistent training again. The week went like this:

Mon: 8 Miles
Tues: 19 Miles
Wed: 7 Miles
Thur: AM 11 Miles with 4 @ 5:45 Pace; PM 9 Miles
Fri: 10 Miles
Sat: 15 Miles; 6 Miles with 5K in 16:41
Sun: 15 Miles

This morning my wife and I went to the Doctor for her 20 week ultrasound. We got to see some pictures of the little peanut. The main reason I went was to make sure that my wife didn't have a moment of weakness and ask for the sex of the baby. We both agreed that since there is a decent chance that this will be our last baby, we would not find out the sex and allow it to be a surprise. Since we did find out for the first two, we want to experience the surprise factor at least once. With one of each already, I truly have no preference one way or the other. I just go with the old standby that I pray it's healthy.

I did squeeze in a 10 miler before I had to get into work too. Hopefully, this will be my last mid-day run for a while. I've fallen into a little funk as far as waking up early so I've been forced to do a lot of afternoon runs (lunchtime runs actually). With the weather getting so hot lately, it probably isn't a good idea. I really want to maximize the quality runs this week and not just get in the mileage like I kind of feel like I've been doing lately. Vacations and races on strange days and at weird times contributed to that a little, but some of it has been a little bit of a loss of focus. I hope to regain some focus this week. We'll see how it goes.