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Eating bacon ranch pasta salad 45 minutes before a morning run doesn't sound like a good idea, but I was craving it, so I ate it anyway.

Turned out to not cause any problems on this morning's 5.8-mile run with Barb (who pushed Ash's stroller). We ended the run at Starbucks; couldn't ask for a better Sunday morning.

I did not get the extra four miles at lunch on Friday; I was exhausted, and with fighting this cold, decided it would be better to rest. (I ended up eating an entire bowl of pasta with chicken and broccoli from one of my favorite restaurants, Sauce. I guess my body is telling me something by craving all this pasta...)

I made it through 45 minutes of spinning yesterday before calling it quits. I can tell I'm not totally healthy. But at least I did 45 good minutes (I didn't slack, in other words). Yesterday afternoon was a fun few hours; I walked while Ash rode his bike to park to play with some friends who are in town, then we walked/biked to the ice cream shop before coming back home. He ended up riding his bike for 1.5 miles! Good job on little 5-year-old legs :)

I ended the week with 19.9 miles and 1.5 hours of cross-training. Considering I'm sick, those aren't bad numbers (although with ZG coming up quickly, I'd like them to be higher...). It's a rest week (in other words, I week that I have Ash on the weekend, which means no long run). I'm hoping this cold goes away this week; I'm tired of being sick. Is it just me, or does this winter seem worse in terms of sickness?

This week, I'm hoping to hit 30 miles (plus one-two hours cross-training); I'm not sure where to fit my long run in. Olga is arriving Friday afternoon for OP50 on Saturday. It looks like either Friday (I'm taking it off, yay!) or Sunday (depending on Barb's schedule). 18-20 miles, woo hoo!

I'm getting jazzed about ZG. I've been researching people's write-ups and accounts of the race in past years to prepare myself for what to expect. I'm starting to think about timing - the only cutoff I have is to make it to mile 17 by noon (we start at 6 am). 6 hours for 17 miles - I should be able to do that. I did 16 in 5 hours on Sunday (of course, I was completely debilitated by the end of that run...but I did recover quickly and well this week!). Thankfully, there's no finishing cutoff time for the 50k that I have to worry about beating.

I'm starting to feel relatively ready for ZG, considering I'm still two months out. The fact that I ran my steepest run ever on Sunday and followed it up with 20 (sick) miles this week gives me more confidence. Of course, if I could be running 30-mile weeks as my rest weeks with 40-mile weeks as my hard weeks, I'd be in better shape. But being a single mom, that ain't gonna happen! I think I'll be able to get in the training I need to be able to finish it without injuring myself, which is my C goal. My B goal (the one I think I'll actually make) is to finish in 10 hours, with my A goal (the one Chris thinks I will - should? - make) is 8 hour finish time. (Personally, I think that's ridiculous, but hey, you never know.)