December 2008 Training:

December 1st - December 7th: Nephew Cale born on Tuesday!!!

• Monday - 0 mi
• Tuesday - 6.29 mi - Cale born early morning, slept a few hours than ran before work
• Wednesday - 4.61 mi
• Thursday - 7.7 mi @ FF Social w/ Billy (we went longer)
• Friday - 0 mi
• Saturday - 14.13 mi | 'Run for Jacob' (4.78mi) followed by Snowball Series 15K
• Sunday - 9.5 mi | SLTC Marathon Relay
  • Weekly Total - 42.23 miles

December 8th - December 14th:

• Monday - 0 mi
• Tuesday - 8 mi
• Wednesday - 5.8 mi
• Thursday - 10.32 mi | 5.28mi @ MHS, then 5.04 @ FF Social w/ AJ easy
• Friday - 9.19 mi @ Katy Trail in Columbia w/ Matt Helbig and Mike Aiken (coaching clinic all day, ran after before dark)
• Saturday - 5.86 mi | Frostbite Series 3K (drove back early morning from clinic to run this)
• Sunday - 0 mi
  • Weekly Total - 39.17 miles

December 15th - December 21st:

• Monday - 8.14 mi
• Tuesday - 0 mi
• Wednesday - 7.75 mi
• Thursday - 12.49 mi | 7.89mi afternoon from parents place easy (ran to iPod = 5:54 avg!), 4.6mi night at FF Social Run in snow/ice easy
• Friday - 9.23 mi @ Forest Park - WINDY!
• Saturday - 5 mi @ FF Social Run in Fenton
• Sunday - 5.12 mi night run from apt - COLD and WINDY!!!!  wind made temp -4!  (6:11avg)
  • Weekly Total - 47.73 miles

December 22nd - December 28th:

• Monday - 0 mi
• Tuesday - 5.07 mi @ FF Social Run in St. Charles (icy roads)
• Wednesday - 11.43 mi
• Thursday - 8.1 mi @ Queeny Park
• Friday - 7.5 mi from CH store before work (YMCA loop)
• Saturday - 13.84 mi | Frostbite Series 10M (10.11mi) - quads started hurting on cool down, felt like ripping...sat in ice bath later today
• Sunday - 6.19 mi @ Francis Park w/ Laura, Ted Drewes after w/ family.  Sat in ice bath again after work.
  • Weekly Total - 52.13 miles

December 29th - January 4th:

• Monday - 8.03 mi from apt before work (Francis Park/Welmore Park/River Des Peres trail)
• Tuesday - 5.04 mi @ SC Fleet Feet Social Run w/ Jeff
• Wednesday - 6.29 mi from the Fenton store after work
• Thursday - 0 mi
• Friday - 7.13 mi @ Chubb Trail before work
• Saturday - 6.31 mi @ FE Fleet Feet Social Run (ran same loop as Wed), about 4.5mi the right front lateral shin began to hurt (feeling when you flex it) - figure this is probably a result from yesterdays run on the trail, might have worked those stabilizer muscles prety good.  Ice bath after work, helped temporary but then it hurt real bad again later - wore my Zensah sleeves to bed to see if that would help.
• Sunday - 0 mi - intended to run a longer run @ Castlewood before work but didn't want to push my luck on the leg.  I awoke and it felt much better, probably feeling 95-99% but it wasn't gone entirely...so I opted to try wearing the sleeves all day at work and see how it felt walking around a bunch.  I still got plenty of time before the marathon to get back from this so not worried.
  • Weekly Total - 32.8 miles