Week ending February 5, 2011

I only ran one day this week. I ran a hard tempo run on Sunday and didn't run again all week. This was a planned break, but I didn't mean to put in zero miles over six days. Usually when I take a planned break I will still run 5 or so miles every other day or something similar. We had really bad weather though, with the high around 5 degrees from Monday through Wednesday, so I was happy to stay inside. The Sunday tempo run really sucked. I had taken it easy the few days before Sunday because I really wanted to hammer this workout knowing I was taken a break after it. I started out fine, but by mile 3 or 4, I felt slow and sluggish. I just couldn't get into a groove and started hitting some slow miles (6:00+). One mile was 6:34 and I got pissed. I hammered after that one; the day was lost though. Not a good workout. Looked forward to a break. 17 miles for the week.