Last week was a rough week. It was supposed to be my first week of distance running (as opposed to time running) and while it started out great on Tuesday with a 3 mile treadmill run I was barely able to do half of my 4 mile run the next day and didn’t do the Friday 3 mile at all. By Thursday morning I had a sore throat and rhinosinusitis (runny nose… really… check wikipedia). I visited my Dr. who said I was too stressed, which made sense since I work for a company that does a lot of mortgage business and… well… that business is bad right now. The other thing he did was give me some arginine pills because I am still having trouble with shin splints. Even though I am trying to eat more peanuts it’s still not enough.

Dad sent over his current training log to look at. It looks like it starts not long after he ran his Marathon this year. It’s really interesting, especially because I’m doing well with the pre-training and about to go into week 1 of my real distance training. My pace is averaging something like 16.5 minutes per mile, but on his log he’s got all these “sluggish legs” and he’s still running an 8-9 minute mile. He called on Monday and reported that he’d run 10 miles in 1:27:26 which is like 8.5 minutes per mile.