long overdue

well, the past couple of weeks haven't been so great, but i'm back on track and raring to go, so hopefully this next week will be better.

week of may 2-8 - at this point, i don't remember too much but the mileage
Monday and Tuesday - OFF - i had taken sat, sun off as well...think i just needed a mental break, but it was also a little bit of a mental slip. i have to be better about nipping those in the bud before i've suddently taken half a week off
wednesday - 6 miles with 8x cemetary hill. reps were all around 90-92, except for #4 when i lost concentration in the face of a big wind gust and ran a 95, and the last two where i picked it up and ran 85s - very good workout. glutes were fatigued from the beginning, which is a good sign that i need to be doing more hills.
thursday - 7
friday - 7
saturday - 6
sunday - off...no long run... bad move
overall - 26 miles in 4 days

week of may 9-15
monday - easy 6. legs felt a little heavy after the day off
tuesday - 4 awful, awful miles. i can only attribute it to the heat, as this was our first hot, humid day in a long time. i hoped to go 7, cut it short to 5 and then cut it short to 4.
wednesday - 6. moderately better than the day before, but still felt crappy. not quite as hot or humid that day.
thursday - off. missed my chance getting ready for team dinner and didn't get out the door
friday - 6 easy
saturday - off.
sunday - 14 awesome miles. did 7 easy with karen campbell and then came home, went to the bathroom, took a gel and some water and then headed back out for the second 7. the first 7, my legs felt heavy and tired from standing at the conference meet for 2 days. the second 7 they felt better and i felt like i was going a little harder, but the pace ended up being exactly the same (same location) for both runs. pretty quick pace - 7:17. taking the gel was no problem, though it was a little hard to sort out the effects of the pizza for dinner the night before and the gel taken between runs. :)
overall - 36 miles in 5 days

this upcoming week will either be the last week of my mileage buildup without workouts or it will be the first week of phase 2 of the jack daniels marathon plan (phase 1 was the buildup). the only difference is one workout, so i'll probably try to get that in this week if i can... otherwise i'll try to get in a hill workout again. the mileage goal this week is 50, which i really need to hit because next week is supposed to be 58 and i don't want to make that big of a jump, even if i am running 7 days a week instead of 4 or 5 like the last couple of weeks.