Training fixed

Okay, figured out now. I’ll be using this training schedule, with some slight adaptations, for the 50K in July. It accommodates the Mount Pleasant Half, Green Bay, and Lighthouse pretty well, which saves me some headaches. My only reservation is the initial brevity of the midweek runs and the early weekly mileage totals, which are a lot smaller than what I’m currently doing; however, it could be that my legs will thank me profusely for a back-off right now, before I beat the crap out of them later.

My running club buddies are finishing up their long runs right now, as I type this. Bummer. There was just no way I could rationalize doing a long run with the boys here by themselves, though, and no way I could make myself believe it would be okay to drag Gabe out in the stroller and Sam on his bike at 6 in the morning in sub-30-degree weather. Parenting skillz: I has them. So it’s the treadmill for me, where I’ll put in 12 miles while the boys are safely supervised and mostly unfrostbitten. Sam will enjoy that; he’s already had his Moment of Pique with me this morning because I made him write in a journal for a short period. See, at his conference, I found out that while he’s doing well in most areas, his weakest ones are writing-related…and I saw his most recent efforts to write on a prompt. I decided that more practice was definitely in order, and so that’s what we’re doing. He grouched and moaned and whined, but he did it; I told him that tomorrow, if he wanted, he could start doing it on the computer, which made him a little less upset, but it’s looking like I’ll have my hands full with it. Mind you, it’s not that he can’t do it; he just daydreams and mentally wanders, and the paper reflects it.

Got to get ready now. Have a great Saturday!