I have two thoughts for today.

1) Yay, I seem to be getting faster.  Meaning that I run at a comfortable pace, and my heart rate is lower than I expect.  I have always fought to run slow enough... seemed like I could hardly do anything faster than a woggle before my heart rate was in the working-too-hard-therefore-going-to-bonk zone.  Sometimes it feels like that's all I'll ever be able to do; I guess I had enough trust though, (after all how many bizillions of people before me have…

I realized recently that my hunny and I have reached the “training tunnel vision” phase of the training lifestyle; having been in and out of focused training before I saw in myself the tendency to talk of nothing but training, and most often MY training (I have always acknowledged that endurance training can appear self-possessed).  I chalk it up to the time factor… since we spend up to 40% of our week at work, nearly that much in sleep if we’re…