Oxygen Deprived

Last week I ended up with over 33 miles in 6 runs. I've been feeling good and seeing improvements in my pace and stride rate. I had originally scheduled myself to run 7 times last week but I'm glad I took yesterday off, though it wasn't that restful when you consider all the strenuous yard work (moving tons of rock and building a deck) I've been doing. I really need to heed the wise words from Jeff when it comes to taking days off - among other things.

On the schedule for this week is more of the same, easy pace mileage with one long run and one short race. According to the book I'm using the long run (this one anyway) shouldn't exceed 25% of my totally weekly mileage. I'll try to take that under consideration but with scheduling at least one day of rest plus participating in the monthly 2 mile race on Saturday it may have to be a tad bit longer.

I'm definitely excited to start getting into more quality workouts along with starting to build up my long run mileage.

On another note, I finally had time to play a little bit with the look and feel of my blog. Well, I added some links and a header image. More to come as time allows...