Oklahoma City Half Marathon Training #3

Day 5

Today's run was all about sex.  The fact that I'm too tired 90% of the time to fulfill my spousal duties from getting up so early.  One solution my mate and I came up with was to ride one day a week during lunch at work.  This I did and I can only sum it up by titling it URBAN BLAH.  My route takes me on Douglas, Rock, and Central.  I can't even believe how noisy it is.  The fact that it is also on sidewalks predominantly makes me just cringe.  There was some residual snow and ice on the sidewalk that made for some interesting times.  Even at its most arduous, I still discovered that my 10 mile per minute pace was no fluke.  It was a pleasant 54 degrees and (as usual) I got caught out overdressed.

Day 6

Wasn't sure how today's run was going to go down, I had 4 miles to do and Little 3's drop off time got scrambled.  Coupled with a dead battery in the Jeep that needed testing I was sweating this run.  My wife decided she needed to workout too, we made the decision to go to the new Death Star Downtown YMCA.  A grander Y I have never seen.  So up we went to the third floor and arrived at the track.  The good news was they set the track up 6 laps to a mile.  That way I wouldn't be getting dizzy with multiple laps.  Usually the track is my worst surface because I get bored, having an event to train for helped this out.  I ran and just couldn't shake the feeling that it was like going around the world.  There were sections of bright, sections of dark, sections of dim.  Temperate pleasant areas, followed by hot zones, followed by the cold vacuum of space.  Just plain weird.  Finished up the run with 5 minutes before close.  Exhausted but 39 minutes of running will do that to ya!