weekend miles

saturday: 6 miles, 9:30 pace on the treadmill. this was the first run where i've felt good and strong the whole time since the marathon. it was especially fun because runner's world had just come in the mail, and i'm a big enough dork to love running while reading that.

sunday: was it the heat, lingering marathon fatigue, or something else altogether? i don't know the exact reason, but this morning run kind of sucked. well, actually, despite the suckiness, it was a lot of fun -- josh actually came with siobhan (a great running partner i met at the forest sunday runs) and i and he managed to hold it down to our pace. we ran 9 miles (i couldn't handle 12) and it felt harder than it had felt before to run 14. i'm going to have to get used to drinking a lot (of water) and sweating a lot, because summer in durham has never been referred to as mild.

in other news, i've decided i am going to go for the pfitzinger 18-week, 55-max miles per week plan to train for the november marathon (philadelphia)! i don't start until late july, though, so i'll keep my plan of continuing ramp-up mileage and then i'll add in some sort of 5K-focused speedwork until then . . . although i still need to find an appropriate 5K. we'll see . . .