Unfavorable Conditions

How I hope this will be true:

"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race."
-Emil Zatopek


Sunday's run: temperature, 28 degrees w/ some wind
Goal: 20 miles

Actual: 14.8 miles

Again, i ran part of the marathon course. While i plodded along, listening to ipod shuffled songs, i thought to myself early on, "hey, i'm just glad i made it out the door."

Then, at the first hour mark, "hey, one hour down only 2 to go"

Then, at one hour, 10 minute mark, "ok. just focus on getting to 1:30, then you are halfway done"

By 1:20, "ok. let's just focus on the next 10 minutes, 10 minutes..."

That seemed to work until about 2:20. My legs were tired and the left hamstring was soooo tight. AAUGGGHHHHH

I rounded a corner, did about 3 minutes flat and the last 2 minutes all uphill. Finished at 2:33. Not happy.

it was just fucking grueling out there on sunday. cold, wind in my face in some areas and, at times, i could not feel my jaw.

No, i am not happy with this result. My only solace is that i have another day....another day....

today's weather

on the way to work at 7:30 am, it was noted at 21 Degrees. Currently at 12:53pm it is 38 Degrees.

Um...yeah, I won't be running outside today. Will be Treadmill bound, if I run at all.

Feeling like I'm coming down with something. Very Fatigued.

I hope not.