Don't wanna be FAT!

Almost every night for the past few weeks we have had sleeping issues with the kiddos. I'm quite literally getting tired of it. Last night was no exception. I managed to get up though and after a couple of miles I woke up. Legs are still feeling really good. Mentally I'm starting to feel a little burned out between the lack of sleep and the hard workouts.  I'm excited that next week I will get to taper as it will be a big race week.  AP:  6:52.  

Couldn't get my butt out of bed this morning, so this ended up being a night run. I started it at 9:00. I never feel as good running at night and usually always have stomach issues. But, I tried to give it a go anyway.  2 mile warm-up with strides AP 6:30.  4 mile tempo 5:10, 5:13, 5:13, 5:21  this was supposed to be an 8 mile tempo but I wasn't feeling great and decided to stop after just 4 miles.  5 miles after the 4 mile tempo AP  6:18.  While running the 5 miles after my tempo run a mosquito spray tuck came driving by me spraying for mosquitos.  I held my breath for as long as I could, but inevitably ended up inhaling a lot of mosquito spray.  I'm not sure, but I'm thinking that stuff can't be good for you.  

Again I couldn't get my butt out of bed this morning so this was an evening run. It felt okay other than some heart burn. AP: 6:30

Early meeting at work this morning meant another evening run. Decided to try and do a true 8 mile aerobic builder at aerobic threshold rather than more of an 8 mile tempo at close to lactic threshold like I have been doing.  First I did a 2 mile warm-up with strides.  Target pace was 5:30 and I felt like I was holding back the whole run until the last .25 miles when I let loose.   Mile splits were:  5:26, 5:23, 5:27, 5:28, 5:25, 5:25, 5:28, 5:11.  Last .25 was in 70 seconds.  Then I did a 2.05 mile cool down.  

I felt strong and controlled.  It's good to know that I can run that pace fairly easily.  

This run was less than 12 hours after my aerobic builder last night, so I was feeling that run still. I just took it nice and easy as it was a recovery run. AP: 7:06.

I had to go on an over-night campout with the scouts and didn't get done with that until about noon and by then it was too hot to go out. I couldn't get motivated to go out that night.