The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-326 – The Chris Interview
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Hello, my friends.  Happy Thanksgiving! I know it’s not a global holiday but I’m sure most of you will know that this week was a national holiday in the US called Thanksgiving.  It’s a one day holiday, typically the last Thursday in November.  Since it’s a Thursday holiday it pretty much kills a whole week of productivity in the business world. 
I will typically not travel on the week, instead I’ll spend the time loosely in my office working on miscellaneous stuff.  Many people will take the whole week off, but for me it’s actually easy duty because I don’t need to travel and no one in bothering you. 
The schools give their students a brief break and extended families pull together from around the country to spend a day together.  This makes it a bit of a travel nightmare for business people with all the students and old people lost in the airports. 
In some companies they will schedule internal meetings for the week because there is no client work to be done.  I had originally done this but we canceled the meeting so I was home.  I took the opportunity to drive up to fetch my youngest at college which is a 12 – 14 hour round trip, but I got good weather, no traffic and no construction so it wasn’t too much of a marathon. 
Got to listen through and get caught up on all my podcasts for the week.  I’m working my way through Mike Duncan’s ‘Revolutions’ podcast.  Those of you who have been members of the RunRunLive community my remember I interviewed Mike for episode 160 in 2011 about his ‘History of Rome’ podcast and his wife’s ½ marathon addiction. 
As far as my training…well…there’s been a ‘development’.  Let me tell you a story.  Last week was a step-back week for me in my training plan.  I was feeling strong and I’ve been very intentional in this training cycle to do whatever it takes to not get injured.  I’ve been managing the volume and intensity very well. 
I’ve been focusing on not giving myself an overuse injury as I try to get some speed back.  As my coach tells me “There’s a difference between good intentions and being intentional.” 
I had planned out this week so I could get my workouts in and drive to get Teresa and race on Thurday.  I planned to do my long run, which was a measly 13 miler, on Saturday.  As I worked through my chores on Saturday I figured I needed like 1:45 to run the 13 miles in the road, and set my sites to get out on the road by 3:00 to get back before it got too dark.  
3:00 rolls around and I go to get my stuff on.  I can’t find my road shoes.  Which is a problem because I could grab another pair of road shoes, but those shoes I’m looking for have my road orthotics in them.  I’d have to go with a strange pair of shoes with the wrong orthotics and even I’m smart enough to know that’s not a good idea in the middle of a training cycle.
I must have left my shoes either in the gym at work or in my office.
No worries.  I’ll just switch to a trail run and grab my trail shoes.  I grab Buddy and figure I’ll do two loops of my 6-7miler in the woods behind the house.  It’s still only 13 miles, but now it’s getting late and a trail 13 miles is going to take more than 2 hours.  No worries. I’ll bring a hat with a light for the second loop.  I’m no stranger to running trails in the dark. 
Buddy and I get geared up and head out.  We do the first loop which is about 7 miles and I swing by the house to drop him off.  Now it’s dark.  I head back out. 
This time of year the leaves are all freshly down from the trees.  The footing is a bit dicey with the leaves covering up the trails a couple inches deep in places.  I’m usually pretty good at this.  When you plant your foot and you feel the rock or root you just unweight that f