Awkward...

I saw that strip from Mother Goose and Grimm the other day and I almost spit out my lunch from laughing :)

Wednesday morning I did an early morning tempo run which my plan called for 1 mile of warmup, 3 miles at 6:01 pace, and 1 mile cool down for a total of 5 miles. So what I did was run 1 mile to IM West, did 3 miles on the treadmill at 6:00 pace, and ran 1 mile back home. Simple enough. If anything, I felt sort of heavy during the run but that also has to do with the fact that I had just woken up, so it took a little bit of mental toughness to get through it.

Yesterday was also the end of my internship with the tennis camps (hell yea!), so all the pros and I went on a bar crawl to some bars in East Lansing. It sounds fun but it was weird for me....I sort of felt out of place. I've only known those guys for 6 weeks at most and have only talked to them in the tennis setting, and most of the pros have known each other for much longer and have hung out a bunch as well. Plus I didn't drink. Well, I had two shots with the group to celebrate the end of camps, but nothing more, and it got extra awkward hanging out around drunk kids that I don't know too well. It also annoyed me too because I'm not much of a drinker, and in a drinking college town, a lot of people think that everytime you go to the bar it's a requirement to get shitfaced. I guess I won't get into that, but at the end of the night I felt like I just didn't belong so I got out of there and headed home.

Today I was thinking of doing an easy 3-4 mile run, but I instead opted to bike 6 miles and lift weights because I hadn't done that in a good week and a half. It was nice but it was so humid out today that it took an extra effort to do things.

On a final note, in response to Zeke's comment from a couple of posts ago, you may have noticed that I have races on 4 straight weekends in September/October. They're all part of the Playmakers Race Series and I ran 3 of them last year, but due to my marathon training this fall, I've pretty much decided that I'm gonna scratch three of them off the list and run only one of them....most likely the 10 miler. I really want redemption from last year - it was my first 10 miler and I bonked at mile 8. Which reminds me, I'm running the course with my buddy BJ on Saturday morning so I'm pretty confident he can help me keep a good pace over 10 miles. Another reason I'm scratching three races off is that I wanna focus on getting some quality long runs each weekend as well as building up my mileage for the big day. I'll make a definite decision about those races sooner than later though.