End of recovery weeks

Missed the rain but not the humidity today. The last couple of days have been very humid. Yesterday was my day off so I was okay but today I had to time it to miss the big rain storm going through here. For tonight and tomorrow morning I’m in Cobourg at my Mom’s. The whole family is down.

Today I ran for an hour along the lake at an easy pace. This was the end of two weeks of recovery from the marathon in Edmonton. It’s been surprisingly quite pleasant. I haven’t any of the normal aches and pains that I get after a marathon. I’ve made a real strong effort to get all of the recovery runs in plus I’ve really tried to get to bed at a reasonable time each night. It's paid off for sure.

I’ve decided that I need to take the sleep part more seriously for this cycle leading up to Philadelphia in November. My goal is no regular TV during the week and to head up to bed around 9 each night. Now this doesn’t mean that I’m going to sleep at 9 but at least I’m reading and generally starting to wind down.

Tomorrow is 2 hours at a moderate zone 1 pace. Should be okay and will be fun to do here in Cobourg. Always nice to run in a different place. Basically this will get me from one end of town to the other and north to south as well. You really get to see the town this way.

Tomorrow afternoon we'll drive back to Ottawa. I’ve got a “yoga for runner’s” class at 3.

I’ve started to work on getting my weight down this week. The last two days have been fairly stable. It’s definitely harder on days off to cut back on the calorie intake. Every day now ‘til Friday I run which will make it a lot easier to control my total intake. Keeping my fingers crossed that this will go quickly.