Regulating

Today seems like a good day to finally get this blog back on track with weekly running time/mileage. If you recall, the last seven documented days were:

24 January: 6 miles (40 minutes)
25 January: 8 miles (65 minutes, hill program on the treadmill)
26 January: 3 miles in the morning (20 minutes), 4 miles in the evening (30 minutes)
27 January: 5 miles (55 minutes, treadmill hill session at 10-15% grade)
28 January: 4 miles in the morning (30 minutes), 3 miles in the evening (23 minutes)
29 January: 9 miles (63 minutes)
30 January: 6 miles in the morning (40 minutes), 6 miles in the evening (40 minutes)

For a total of:

Time: 406 minutes
Distance: 54 miles

And the last seven days (31 January - 6 February):

31 January: 3 miles in the morning (20 minutes), 5 miles in the evening (36 minutes)
1 February: 5 miles, hill repeats at Patterson Park (35 minutes), 7 miles in the evening, over snow in Patterson Park (51 minutes)
2 February: 6 miles (41 minutes)
3 Feburary: 5 miles treadmill hills, 1 mile total warm-up/warmdown (57 minutes)
4 February: 15 miles (105 minutes)
5 February: 9 miles in the morning (66 minutes), 4 miles in the evening (31 minutes)
6 February: 5 miles in the morning (36 minutes), 6 miles in the evening (44 minutes)

For a total of:

Time: 522 minutes
Distance: 71 miles

So, a couple of things. First, that's a big mileage jump, especially over the past few days, but so far, no ill effects, aside from the pain in my hip as a result of slipping and falling in the parking lot walking in to work this morning. At the same time, this might be a good week (or at least a good next few days) to dial back a bit, to prevent possible burnout. I'd like to be getting more sleep than I'm getting now, so maybe that's a good focus this week (since all the extra mileage has definitely made sleeping easier).

And, for the sake of brevity, I won't carry on about tangential topics here, but I will put this sentence here as a reminder for me to post, sometime this week, at least one of the discussions of topics of more general interest that I've been planning.