"What I'm doing right now is really cool!"

Saturday BIKE 60 mins indoors
Sunday WALK RUN 1:17, run was 3 miles!!
             BIKE 13 mins indoors

I almost took all of Saturday off, but after work and after dinner I did this ride. More of an energy burn. And to say that I at least did "something" today.

Sunday Funday! The plan was 60 mins of walk and run, with Jeff's blessing to try 3 mins. I had fancy plans of going to TGP, maybe looping it. That is a regular 6 mile course for me. So off I go after a dog walk to warm up.

With podcasts playing, I went to Grand, to TGP, started the loop, and at Kings felt great. It was 2.8 miles at that point, so I thought maybe I'd stop under 6 miles to save that milestone for the next run. I was noticing around 45 mins that I was checking the watch too early -- 90 seconds into the interval instead of closer to 3 mins, so at that I started extending the rest intervals to 4 minutes instead of 3.

As I was in my last run interval on WY, the podcast was about Triathlon Swimming, sport psychology etc, and they said to be mindful while training, to recognize the fact that "what I'm doing right now is really cool". And on that light downhill, almost done, longest run yet since surgery, YES, what I'm doing right now is uber cool!!

Closer to the house, I was 5.7 miles. If I detoured a block I might hit 6? I decided this was OK as long as I walked it. Then the temptation for 6.2, a 10K, naw save that for the next run!

Once home I extended the session to 90 mins on the bike. Foam roll, shower, brekkie!

Later in the day I called up the splits and was surprised to find that I ran 3.04 miles and walked 2.98! I seriously thought the run would be less, those aren't statistically significant differences. So I'll focus on time instead: 30 mins running and 47 mins walking. haha!!!

Stats: slower pace at about 9.5 m/m, cadence 170-175, HR 125-130.
Pace slower as planned to account for increased time. Cadence maybe low if end goal is closer to 180. HR in MAF range, although this was not on my mind during the run.

No pain, no problems, all feels good.

Later in the day while climbing the stairs to bed, I got a whiff of post long run fatigue. WHOOP!

And of course ideas of fortune and glory start percolating. I looked up what it takes to qualify for Western States 100. Turns out the qualifying isn't hard, it's winning the lottery that is the limiter. Heard my podcaster friend Wyatt H talk about the Pumpkin Holler Hundred and looked that up. Yeah, getting ideas! I need Jeff to talk me down!