{"id":172,"date":"2008-10-22T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T21:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2008-10-22T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T21:18:44","slug":"and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"And iRan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How could I NOT run on a day like today?<\/p>\n

My cooking class got canceled for this evening, so I found myself with a day off. Although my sinuses have a bit of residual yuck, I felt good enough for a run (I figured it’d do me good). Nothing too strenuous — just a slow recovery run to my bank and back (about 4 miles).<\/p>\n

It felt so good to run, although my chest felt heavy during the hills. As I neared home I decided to head to Greenlake to add another mile, and once there I felt good enough to head south to the Woodland Park hills for an additional mile. It ended up being a 6.5-mile run at a 9:27 overall pace.<\/p>\n

So, what’s next? While my countdown ticker shows the Goofy Challenge as our next race, we’ve decided to add two more marathons in between in order to earn “silver” status with the Marathon Maniacs (6 marathons in 6 months). The first will be the “Ghost of Seattle” Marathon (run primarily by Maniacs on a portion of the current Seattle Marathon course) on Nov. 29; the second will be the Christmas Marathon in Olympia on December 21. I’ll be running both of those as training runs for Goofy, but my darling will try another BQ attempt at the Christmas one.<\/p>\n

It’ll be great to not have to follow a rigid training schedule, although I may throw in some lactate threshold and perhaps a few VO2Max<\/del> BUAL workouts. I’ll also run several back-to-back long runs in preparation for Goofy.<\/p>\n

The devil can’t stop me now!<\/p>\n

P.S. Long-time EDRW readers may find something eerily familiar with the above photo. My camera is dead and I misplaced my battery charger, so I had to repurpose the photo from this post<\/a> (taken almost a year ago to the day!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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