You can do it with the right approach and mindset

RUN 10 miles in 1:37, I think about a 9:37m/m
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

This is a rest week, I'm supposed to be resting. So in that spirit I'm not run commuting to work today. It would have messed my schedule up anyway. Had to drop the doggie at the vet, and have to pick her up again later today. Running in and back, in the 94F heat, on top of everything else...not restful.

After a silly brekkie of eggs, banana, peanut butter omelette (more like a soggy roll) I walked said doggie, then took off for "only" 10 miles. Lately I've been doing 14 or 16 on Wednesdays, so this is 'resting'?

My brain was churning after some wild ass dreams so I took the phone for some podcasting. I decided on TJM Episode 1, sort of an into to my upcoming 10 days x 10 miles stretch that starts this Sunday. The guest said the title quote -- that with the right approach and mindset you can do anything. I'm taking that into my 10 x 10 stretch. I'm somewhat apprehensive about the lack of rest in a 10 day series. Gotta be sure to mix it up, plan ahead, and don't let it get mental.

Keep debating an email to TJM, tell then what I'm doing and how I plan to run it to the podcasts. But I'm too private of a person I guess. Don't want to hear about it in one of their episodes, don't want to load it to Strava, etc. Same reason I'm not doing the WashU MoveIt challenge, don't want my stuff analyzed or tracked I guess.

Well anyway. Back to the run. It was my usual out-n-back to TGP with a MoBot loop for distance. Seemed to take a long time, just didn't have the spark to go any faster. Very distracted with things maybe? Mom's surgery, doggie to the vet, upcoming trip home, on top of the house and Disney goings-ons. That and I always seem more tired in a rest week?! Like I'm mentally living out the "your're tired" part of the training plan?

And I think I've convinced myself to skip the 4 miles extra I'd need to run to hit the training plan goal of 36 miles. How crazy is that?! If I run 7 as per usual tomorrow, skip Friday and Saturday, then run the 1st 10 x 10 Sunday, I'll go into the stretch on a great rest. Running 4 miles on Saturday won't make a hoot of a difference come race day!