Plan for this week: real simple: one 13-miler and the rest is all 9 miles for the total of 58 miles. The nature of the 9-milers is different: one long run (that means not a double and of at least somewhat decent pace), one tempo consisting of 2 x 2.5 miles fast (ouch!); the rest is arbitrary. In fact I'll probably do an easy 4 today in preparation of tomorrow's hard tempo, and I'll take no rest days. With only 4 today, and, say, 5 on Saturday, my body should be sufficiently rested for next week.

I know the miles don't add up from my plan... Anyway, I meant there was also a rest day. Which I had on Tuesday.

Tempo yesterday went better than expected. I ran it after sundown, so it was a bit warm, I was a bit unfocused, overworked, and after dinner. Surprisingly, I still did better than last time. Splits were 6:39, 6:39, and then after one mile of easy (7:47), 6:35, 6:32. It does seem like that my cool weather, ideal circumstances LT max is about 6:30. That corresponds to ~1:27 HM, which is not terrible at this stage with no specific LT training. I'm going to have to take the workouts seriously if I want anything better in October.

Week of 7/13 could hardly be worse than it was... I didn't realize originally that I was flying over the Atlantic back to the USA this week, and this did wreck havoc on training. The time it takes, the jet lag, the different climate, the stress: all take its toll.

My total mileage was only 11.59 for the week, and I just can't seem to run fast. I attempted a tempo on Saturday after only running one 4-miler during the week, and I failed pretty badly. It was supposed to be 2 x 2 miles at LT. The first interval was OK with 6:22, 6:32, but the second one was 6:49, 6:50. It wasn't even too warm. I have no excuse. Maybe I should rethink my goals.

But first, I'll attempt to do another tempo on Wednesday. I'll try to do this 2 x 2 miles again. If I can't even maintain 6:30 pace for that, I'm in big trouble. I won't be able to get even close to my PR then.

Plan for week of 7/20:
Week -13: total of 54 miles.
Sunday: 13 miles easy in the evening. Probably go to some nice place like Floyd Forks.
Monday, Tuesday: 8 miles easy in doubles. Start to get up at 6am.
Wednesday: 9 miles LT: 2 mi warmup, 2 miles fast, 1 mile recovery, 2 miles fast, 2 miles cooldown.
Thursday, Friday: 8 miles easy in doubles. Thursday 2nd run with the group.
Saturday: Group trail run fartlek with 5 x 3:00 at VO2 max. Round it up to 8 miles.

Finding the Northeast Passage

This one is between Felsőörs, Hungary, and Szentkirályszabadja without going through Balatonalmádi. I've spend several days now trying to find a route through the woods, and yesterday I finally succeeded. But the result was much like the real life Northeast Passage - it exists, it is theoretically passable, but it is hardly practical...

In any case, I am 49 miles for this somewhat hectic week, and I have a day left. I ran no tempos unfortunately, but it's OK at this stage of training.