Week in Review: 5-11 June 2011

As I begin writing this, I actually have no idea how many miles I ran last week. So let's find out . . .

Sunday, 5 June: Bel Air Town Run, 3.1 miles, 25 minutes, 17 seconds (we went over this last week)
Monday, 6 June: 5 miles (40 minutes), through the usual Canton-area haunts
Tuesday, 7 June: 7 miles (55 minutes), again, around Canton, Fells, and all that bit
Wednesday, 8 June: 9 miles (70 minutes), Canton, Fells, whatever
Thursday, 9 June: 12 miles (90 minutes), Canton, Fells, Mount Vernon - woah!
Friday, 10 June: 4 miles of treadmill hills (~1300 feet of climb in 35 minutes), 7 miles through Canton, Fells, and whatever (55 minutes)
Saturday, 11 June: 6 easy miles on trails at Loch Raven (60 minutes)

Total Time: 420 minutes
Total Distance: 53 miles

In short, another crap-tacular week mileage-wise, after my Saturday adventure at Old Dominion. Then again, counting Old Dominion through the following Friday, that's 147 miles in 7 days, which is probably the most mileage I've ever done in a 7-day period, with the exception of Badwater week last year, when I hit somewhere around 155. (And, considering that I ran Badwater in about 34.5 hours, I reached a similar mileage in about 10 less hours, so at any rate, more miles faster than ever before.)

All that said, though, I need to get back in a better routine of posting high mileage during the week as a result of putting in solid mileage every day (as opposed to what's been happening over the past few weeks, which has been more like a few ridiculously long runs, punctuated by ridiculous periods of inactivity. So far, so good this week - 32 miles in the past two days, and not a very slow 32 miles. I finally feel like I have my legs back under me, after what felt like about a month of malaise (unfortunately concentrated around MMT). With any luck, I'll put in a solid next few weeks, at around 100 miles per week, and be in great shape for Badwater.

In conclusion, lately, people have been saying wacky things to me when I've been out running around the city, which I think is because I've been out running around without a shirt on, and the weather is nice enough for other people to be out at the same time. This makes putting in huge mileage a lot more entertaining. (Today's entertainment: a girl who was out running with some guy who may or may not have been her boyfriend/fiancee/husband, after I passed them in front of the Science Center, repeatedly imploring the boy to take his shirt off, presumably inspired by my example. He didn't oblige.) If anything really super-funny happens, I'll post about it on Facebook, so you don't have to read through a bunch of junk here to get to it!

Okay, one more thing - sometime this week, I'm going to post about inspiration for running that came from an unlikely source. If I remember. If you care, remind me to write about this!