Well this week was a bit of a step back in the progress I felt I had been making. Missed running on Tuesday and Wednesday because I was in the office writing a paper. Kind of makes me wish I was independently wealthy and I could work only when I felt like it. So I missed two days, and I think it effected my speedwork on Thursday.

I like having that first easy run of the week to warm up the legs before doing speedwork for the second run of the week. Anyway's, I never really felt loose and my legs didn't have much pickup in them. Still I managed to do 3 1-mile intervals at below 6:30 pace. I was a bit tired for my easy run Friday, which it normally a day off, but with the missed earlier runs I added a day. And Saturday's easy run felt pretty good, but Sunday's long run just never felt proper.

It started out with some blood sugar issues. I got up at 5:50 like I normally do to eat something before going back to sleep for an hour. My blood sugar at the time was high, so I applied my typical correction. Fast forward to before the run, and my blood sugar was borderline low and I still had nearly 2 units of insulin active in my system, which is trouble. I tried to ingest some glucose quickly and even set my basal lower than normal during the run, but like I said before things just never felt proper. I consumed all the Shot Bloks I had with me by about mile 6 because I felt a low coming on a few times throughout the run. I don't really know what to say about what went wrong. Probably didn't recover properly with the added Friday run, blood sugar issues, and who knows what else.

Next week is a recover week. After this week I don't really want to take it easy, but I guess it would be wise to do so.

Last weeks training:

• Thursday - 7.26 Mile Speedwork - 51:05 min, 7:02 pace - 2.5 mile warmup, 3 1-mile intervals @ 6:32 pace w/ 800m jogs, cool

• Friday - 5.15 Mile Easy Run - 41:57 min, 8:09 pace

• Saturday - 4.22 Mile Easy Run - 33:07 min, 7:50 pace

• Sunday - 6.46 Mile Easy (Long) Run - 47:40 min, 7:22 pace