June & July

Ah, June. Mileage was low. Cross-training was better. Weather was HOT.

The goals:

16 runs

• 4 long

• 4 easy

• 4 speed

• 4 trail

4 hikes
8 yoga or strength

The reality:

15 runs

• 3ish long (crazy that I didn't hit these!)

• 9 easy (it was hot, nothing was easy)

• 1 speed

• 3 trail

0 hikes
11 yoga or strength

I also did one race (the Jim Klett 10k), and it was hard and slow and fine. I am trying to scale back the number of races I do, both for money reasons and because I think they bum me out. In any case, I increased my cross-training activities in June and managed to hit the trail three times (sorta four since I did some of last Thursday's run on the trails.

I'm thinking July's goals will be about the same as June's. I'm not going to make any grand plans about strength-training at this point. Some progress is better than no progress. I have one four-mile race on the 4th, and it's low-pressure. Everything has to prepare me to do the Parkersburg HM without dying or hating myself. 


July: 
16 runs (1 long, 1 trail, 1 speed or hills, 1 easy)
4 yoga
4 strength-training
4 hikes