What do you do on the Sunday of a long weekend? Sleep late, make breakfast and do laundry. It was kind of a grey day so a nice day to stay at home and take care of inside chores.
I did manage to strap the runners on and take a 3 mile slow trek around the neighbourhood. Not much to say about it. I was not fast, I was not slow, just a good paced fun little run.
In the evening we put a leash on the dog and did a couple of km with skateboarding and scootering kids.
Nice easy day.
Plod On.
Today was a fun day, the full first day together as a family since my daughter went to her “sleepover” camp last week. So what did we do? We spent the morning at a local amusement park enjoying the sun and mind spinning rides.
Well the kids had fun anyway, until round 2 of the bumper cars when one got hit too hard and tears ensued.
Right about supper time I headed out for a ride. The plan was to go about 10 km at a moderate pace. I think I might be a little too competitive for that, when map my run starts giving me split paces I start speeding up!
Tomorrow is the last day of the tour. There were some big moves today in the fight for second place and a very exciting finish. My Stage 20 Le Tour Challenge ride was 10.3 km in 28:15.
Plod On.
Streak to the beach - Day 41
Time : 31:30 Minutes
Distance : 3.5 Miles
This Week: 21.4 Miles
Total: 150.5 Miles
Another day spent in front of the computer writing a mathematical model for the latest project. Got er 90% complete before 8:00 at night. Then it was make dinner, settle the kids down and finally time to run.
It was getting dark outside meaning that I would be running inside. Another treadmill run. I set the incline at 0.5% set the speed at 6.4 mph and settled in for a run. After 5 minutes I cranked it up to 6.7 mph and just ran it out until the 2 mile mark and went up to 7.2 mph for the next mile and a half.
I stepped off at the 3.5 mile mark and felt it was a reasonable effort for the day. Hey but the good news is I broke through 150 miles on this streak to the beach.
Plod On.
Streak to the beach - Day 39
Time : 30:00 Minutes
Distance : 3.2 Miles
This Week: 15.6 Miles
Total: 144.7 Miles
What a day. I spent 10 hours trapped in a room with 12 Engineers facilitating a meeting and collecting data from a group of people that never make mistakes. I came home mentally drained and definitely not motivated to run. I managed to put it off until just about 9:00 then it was time to shit or get off the pot.
I started the treadmill at 6.4 mph and tried to settle into a pace but nothing was feeling right, my stride was off, my legs were hurting and I was struggling. I was ready to pack it in after 10 minutes and take the daily minimum. I continued slogging along hoping to make 20 minutes, then persevered for the last 10 minutes, stopped the treadmill and hopped off.
I ran junk miles but kept the streak alive.
Plod On.
