I've got running on the brain

Thursday, October 11th

8:30 AM - 6.5 Miles, 45 min
Fells - Lower res from the house
4:30 PM - 6.5 Miles, 44 min
Same as above

6:30 PM - Massage w/ Glenn at his new spot in Wellesley. This was also a complementary session as this place is trying to get Glenn's regular customers to join their fitness program. All I had to do was take a 10 min tour of the place which was well worth the comped massage.

So all last year, I called the above mentioned loop 7 Miles, so I don't know if I'm running it faster now or I just rounded up before but I don't think I can call it 7 miles anymore based on the above time durations. Although, I have been feeling great on my runs the last few days. I actually constantly find that I have to tell myself to slow it down. This happens a lot when I run by myself; If I'm feeling good, I start thinking about running well in workouts, in races, and just keep getting more positive thoughts rolling through my mind. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it just makes me run harder when I'm probably better off going easy. Like this afternoon, I was feeling pretty relaxed and started thinking about running well at Mayors Cup, which is reasonable since its a couple weeks away. Then I thought about how I could do at NEs and Club Nats later in the season, which then led me to think about Indoor races, etc. So by the end of the run I was already thinking about the starting line in Eugene next summer. Now, Jeff Caron the realist knows that my chances of actually making the trials are between slim and none, with slim being very optimistic. However, Jeff Caron the dreamer tells that voice to shut the hell up and just run harder. So there's a constant adjustment being made to the outlook of this year as well as the simple training efforts on a day to day basis, as I go through these varying phases. I'm sure this is normal and any of you still reading are just saying to yourselves, get to the point already and stop talking about yourself in the third person! There really isn't much of a point I guess so I'll just say that things seem to be going well at the moment and I'm anxious to start racing (preferably fast).