Prairie fire training short runs: week three

“Another day, another dollar”…..

This is a line from a song that Chris Knight a musician that Mr. B introduced us to awhile ago and if you haven’t heard of him start googling. The song reminded us of this weeks training because it felt like another day, another run. In some way we wasn’t surprised to have this feeling of boredom. It has almost been two weeks since we have seen Mr. B, and not having a running partner sucks.

Literally, every run felt like we were just going through the motions. Our mind wandered which meant we didn’t work on our form or push myself. Shame on us, we know. But we should be back in working order because Mr. B returns on Saturday, which means we get to do our long run together. Yipppeee!!!

Alright, on to the good stuff.

MONDAY:
Me: 5 miles. Since we did our long run on Saturday, we decided that we needed to ‘hit it hard’ on Monday. It rained all day so we were little worried that we wouldn’t be able to run (btw…body pump was canceled just in case you were wondering). Well, we got lucky and the rained stopped and the weather was reliable, sixty degrees and partly cloudy. We started off thinking let’s shoot for 4 miles, but by the time we hit mile three we were ready to rock. Our run wasn’t in record time, but we kept a good pace and felt strong, which is all we wanted to accomplish.
Mr. B (his voice): Rest. Legs were tired but not sore. Noticed some new little aches, but nothing to fret about considering we did a 3 mile hike after running on Sunday.

TUESDAY:
Me: 3 miles. We ran before kickball on our usual running route. This run was ridiculous. We were tired, our legs felt heavy, and we just wanted to get to kickball. There was nothing sexy about this run at all.
Mr. B: 3 miles. Great morning run! We were a little tentative about this one but once we were moving everything went well. The morning temps finally cooled down a little and there was zero humidity. It took a few miles to work the kinks and our left Achilles was a little tight, but we attribute that to standing around in work boots all day.

WEDNESDAY:
Me: 10 mile bike ride. Check out our recap here.
Mr. B: 4 miles. Excellent four miles. We were actually planning on running 5 but we as feeling some pressure to get to work early and get things sorted out so we could head home Thursday. Another cool morning, but the humidity had noticeably increased (it’s memorable how much we've started to notice the little things when running). In retrospect, we should have just done the 5 because we're still here and a few extra minutes wouldn’t have made a difference.

THURSDAY:
Me: Rest.
Mr. B: We didn’t want to rest today, but we were a little grumpy about not going home and was eager to get to work and start solving problems! Guess we're a problem solving junkie. When things go well, life is boring.

FRIDAY:
Me: 3 miles. We were extra chipper this morning because we knew we would see Mr. B tomorrow. This run was speedy, straight to point because we had a bazillion other things to do.
Mr. B: 3 miles. We were beat and running didn’t sound attractive, but that’s why it’s called training. If it didn’t suck someone would have come up with a better name like “funning.” Truth be told we went to sleep thinking we'd just skip this one. When the alarm went off and we saw the purple and orange morning light peeking through the window begging us to go and run, we couldn’t resist. It was an awful run. 3 miles felt like 30 and we actually stopped and stretched at 2 miles, but it still felt great. You just can’t find a better way to get your day started.

REFLECTION:
Me: Having a running buddy makes the biggest difference in the WHOLE world. If you can find someone to run with, even if it’s only for a mile, do it!
Mr. B: When you walk into a restraint and instead of being greeted with “how many?” or “just one?” you get “your table is open”, it’s time to get the hell out of Dodge. This week was a good running week. A year ago if you told us that missing an early morning run would seem like a let down we would have called B. S. Just another example of why you can never say never.

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Editors Note: For those of you that don’t know us well, time apart plays a big role in our lives. We usually don’t share this much about it, and it hasn’t been featured like this in the past (mostly because it’s a boring topic), but since it ties into the training aspect we thought we’d try out the dual recap format and see what people thought.

So…. what do you think? Should we do it again next time?