sweet spot????

I am finally getting to the point where both my brain and fitness level are showing some progress. I don’t know if it’s that my running is feeling smoother, my fitness is getting better or I am simply more motivated. It’s one of those things where at some moment in time you have to bite the bullet and see if you can truly get out for another run, even if you really don’t want too, and test the body.

In general my Achilles has held up well. It’s tend and tight in some spots, but nothing like when things became bad in August. It almost seems like a good massage to tear the daylights out of the Achilles and things will be good. That and continually making sure to stretch and do my heel drops.
Nothing fancy here, but easily the best week I’ve had on the comeback trail and I really felt it this morning.

Mon: 59mins
Tues: fell asleep, but planning on taking one day off this week so ok
Wed: went to the junio hockey game and got stuck in traffic, but still got in 53 mins at a good clip with the dog
Thurs: ok I have to show I really mean it so I pushed myself out the door for an AM run (30mins) and then hit Mundy Park after school. Dick, Dickie and Oz were doing a 10-11 miler and I got there about 10mins late and hooked up with them, but when I jumped in there were hammering. I was like uh oh the first 5mins and then got into a real nice stride to the point where it felt easy. In the end i ended up at just over an hr, but we were well under 6mins miles pace (although i had a pit stop at around the 40min mark)
Fri: up and at em again on the AM (geez I must have been motivated) and again after school for an hr.
Sat: Had a slight inkling to hit Stanley Park, but we had our PE/Coach Xmas party and a late night. No big deal as I would have probably been out on my own anyways. I ended up doing a 26min fartlek of anywhere from 2mins to 30 sec. I began my PM bit could feel I was hypo-glycemic before I began and pacjed it in after 20mins
Sunday: I woke up at 4 AM and watched teevee til 5:30 and then fell back to sleep. When my alarm went off at 8:15 I wasn’t coherent and woke up a bit late for a 9am run, but the group was doing Mundy Park loops so i got there about 10mins late and hooked up part way through. I felt terrible and ended up running the latter stages with Dick and Kirsty (Dickie and Gant had begun to push the pace. Worst part is that running slower hurt more form wise, but at least I could keep up the whole way. I guess with Sat’s workout and the overall mileage increase I should have expected just as much....