Fun in the Sun

It's been a strange year for me so far. It seems like everytime I start to get some momentum in the running dept. something comes along and derails me. Derails probably isn't the right word…slows me down maybe. This past week, I was on pace for my first 100 mile week of the year. With a (slow) 20 miler on Friday morning I was at 71 miles for the week and just had to squeeze another 29 miles in 3 runs on Saturday and Sunday.

Then on Friday, The Family took a trip up to Michigan for a weekend of fun in the sun and things got off track. Saturday was spent at Warren Dunes climbing sand mountains with Chloe and Mikey and then we moved the fun to the pool at the place we were staying at. The day just drifted away and before I knew it, it was getting dark and I still had a big fat zero for the day. Some days, you just have to go with it though and Saturday was one of those days. So I settled in for some more processed meat for dinner and wrote the day off.

I was able to manage 10 slow miles on Sunday, but the less than ideal diet apparently took it's toll on me, because it was not a fun run. My Garmin went out about a mile into the run and it seemed my energy was zapped right along with it. The temps have been hot lately, the hottest of the year so far, so I'm sure that tooks it toll as well. Overall though, I can't complain about the week as I did manage 81 miles for the week in 8 sessions with 2 runs of 18 miles or longer and an actual speed session. Hopefully I can build on that next week and not drop the ball once the weekend comes.

Today was 7 miles to just try and get back into the swing of things. For some reason, this weekend of fun and relaxation really left me wiped out.