My new runners are cursed...

I can't believe how much salt has been coming out of my body and I don't know where it's coming from. The other day my shorts were just covered after only a little more than an hour of biking speed work.

Last night, at the last moment, the family decided to go to the drive in. We loaded up with some rum, beer, pillows and blankets and off we went. It's great having an 18 year old that can drive. Bad news when we got there, all three screens were full.

We then decided to go to a regular theatre and went to "Land of the Lost" with Will Ferrell. What a BAD movie. I ate my popcorn, had some beers and fell asleep before it ended. It was one of those movies that you know sucks right from the beginning.

I slept in again this morning and when I did get up it was raining. I waited about an hour to see if it would clear before I went on my long run. It didn't, so I just went. My legs were so flat and sore. I'm so looking forward to tapering and letting them heal. I'm either going to have the race of my life in Morden or the worst, it all depends on how well my legs recover. I'm staying positive and think it will be my best race.

By the half way point on my run I was only averaging an 8:25 mile pace. Even on the downhills my butt and hamstrings were sore. For the last half of the run I picked it up and ended up averaging a respectable 8:02 pace. My heart rate was good, didn't get to high, it was just my legs, they had no jam.

My new shoes felt good and my legs seem to be adjusting to them nicely. This was only my third run in them and two of the runs were in the rain. These shoes are off to a wet start. It was a light rain and the air was warm, which made it very enjoyable. It's nice to run in that type of weather every once and a while. 

Of course right after I finished, the rain stopped and the sun came out. I'm still glad I did the run early, I still need to spend some time preparing for our big sales meeting tomorrow and I have dinner with all the sales people and production management tonight.

I'm really pining to do an Ironman this year. I know I was going to jump a year and forgo the expense, but I really want to do one. All I've been doing is looking at Iron distance races in November. There is the Silverman in Las Vegas that has over 12,000 feet of climbing. Dave Scott says it's the toughest Iron distance race. All the other Ironman races are sold out.

I found out yesterday that I qualified for an Ironman Canada spot this year at the Muskoka race, and had I stuck around, I would be doing Ironman Canada this year. Damn. That's the second time I didn't stick around, thinking I didn't do well enough and in both cases missed out. Last year it was for the Ironman 70.3 World Championships. Missing that one hurt big time.

Long Run - 1:40:20 / 12.47 miles / 8:02 pace / 134 avg hr