My interwebs were down over the weekend so I am posting this a wee bit late, so I will keep it short. I had a nagging cold or something that never really became a full blown cold but was just enough to effect breathing and what not. With the holiday my running schedule was a little thrown off. I managed a pretty good tempo run on Thanksgiving morning (made me feel not so guilty for eating everything that night), and on Sunday I did a very slow half marathon warm up. I ran it at about 8:25 pace and it was more to test out shoes, socks, clothes, and most importantly what too eat. I tried a Mocha Clif Shot before the run because it had some caffeine, but it was like eating cake frosting and didn't settle to well so I don't think I will try it this week.

One thing I was thinking about is how the **** do people eat an 'average' of 3000 calories on Thanksgiving. I mean I killed it and I would wager at most I at 1800 calories, 2000 tops. I think my problem was that I wasted room by eating too many vegetables and not enough gravy..oh well maybe I can do better at Christmas.

Hope to have a good race this week...don't think I am going to break 1:30, but it will be a ton of fun and I will try my best.

Last weeks training:

• Tuesday - 4.27 Mile Easy Run - 35:11 min, 8:14 pace 

• Thursday - 7.63 Mile Tempo Run -  55:35 min, 7:17 pace - 1 mile warm up, 5.6 Mile at 6:54, 1 mile cool down 

• Saturday - 5.78 Mile Easy Run - 48:25 min, 8:22 pace 

• Sunday - 13.1 Mile Long Run - 1.50:07 min, 8:24 pace

Shoe Mileage - Asics DS Trainer 13 - 171.45 Miles