28 AUG 2010

Ran 4 miles tonight with Alamo Running Buddies at Phil Hardeberger Park. I was hoping this one would be on trails, but they chose a pavement out-and-back tonight. Nevertheless, my Masochists did fine on the pavement with no ill effects felt in my knees. After objectively assessing my current level of fitness and my current mileage (first run in a month today LOL), I have settled on a strategy to have me up to 40 mile weeks by January. I had planned on running the 100 at Rocky Raccoon but being realistic I should stay with the 50 mile. At this stage in the game, completions will be a lot more motivating than crash and burn DNF's on low mileage. I am also looking at the Rockledge Rumble 50K on the 13th of November as a motivator to get in the miles and as a longer prep run towards Feb and Rocky.