Up for the challenge by FatFrank

Looks like I’m playing yo-yo lately. One day I’ll feel good and I’ll be willing to increase my mileage but two days later I’ll feel sluggish and will complain that I’m overtraining. What I’ve noticed is that my long runs are no longer giving me the active rest that it did when I was doing 50min jog. Let’s just say that running 1h45 cannot leave you feeling top shape for your intervals the next day, especially since I have a tendency to be taking my easy days a bit hard. It can fly on an 80K week but once you hit 130, you need to smooth out on the easy stuff. I guess that I’ll have to be careful because I’ve experienced overtraining before and it kept me slow and feeling like hell for a good 3 months. Considering where I’m at so early in the season, I have much to lose by doing a stupid mistake of that sort. Anyways, I’m still running the times on the track and with 4 easy days (because of a business trip) I’ll be ready to hurt in Ottawa. Speaking of which, looks like we’ll have stiff competition! Merga (the winner this year in Boston) is targeting the world record of 27:02. I don’t even think I could keep up for 2km but it’s gonna be nice to start side-by-side with a guy shooting for a WR.

Got some more good news as I received entry confirmation from both elite coordinators of the NYC Half-Marathon and the Chicago Marathon. Looks like the job is done really early in the season so I’ll have to set sights on other interim objectives. The first one is to break 31 for 10K; looks like a long shot really but we’ll see what happens. I can’t wait to get to Ottawa, such a festive road race – there’s an absolute buzz around the city. Oh, and also it’s great because the race is on a Saturday night giving us the possibility to have an all-out post race celebration until 3am – Right, bars close at 2am in Ontario, crap.