Back to Austin
Today we transitioned back to Austin. The transition days are always stressful, but today’s was pretty seamless, honestly. The cats did well in the car, and we made it back in 7 hours flat with a stop for gas and lunch.
My run on Saturday got way harder than I expected to, given that I had done the same distance on Wednesday and felt great. I ran 5 days this past week, taking Friday and today (Sunday) off. I ran 18 miles total this week - that’s the most miles I’ve ran in a single week in probably since before we got married when we were training for the 2004 Austin Marathon.
The first 60% of Saturday’s run felt pretty good. The last 40% I was in zone 4 and just having to work to stay at the target pace.
Now that we’re back in Austin, I’m going to have to figure out how to balance going into the office (our 4/1 RTO started while we were in Baton Rouge), getting my runs in, and getting to CrossFit. I’m not exactly sure how this is going to work, but I did scale down my CrossFit plan from every day to 3/week. I still want to get in there, especially on lifting heavy days, but running is the priority right now. I really want to get that sub-30 5k run on June 28th.
Tomorrow’s run is actually a threshold run, so we’ll see how that is. Baton Rouge running is a lot simpler for planning harder workouts because well it’s very flat. We do live in the one part of town where it isn’t completely flat, but compared to Austin it’s just a different thing. I mean, our neighborhood isn’t in the hills, but there is still plenty of elevation change where you will definitely feel it. So for a threshold run… I need to see how this is going to go.
But I’m continuing to enjoy the running, and the audiobooks.