Week in review: NYCM training week 5

This week was kind of weird for me.  On one hand, I had some of my strongest runs yet: an okay-but-not-great-but-not-bad long run, a solid tempo run, and two solid runs (for the treadmill, anyway).  And yet... this was the first week for me that my morale has kind of been flagging.  I'm tired of training.  When I wasn't training, if I skipped a run, life went on and I ran the next day.  Now, if I skip a run, I feel like I've made a Very Bad Mistake and my training is going to suffer for it.  The runs are getting just long enough that I have to plan around them: early dinner Friday night to accommodate the Saturday long run, leaving work early to get to the gym in time during the week, that sort of thing.  It's temporary and it's worth it, but the marathon is still too far away to be tangible and yet my training is happening now.  At the same time that it's getting harder, it's also getting easier (the running, anyway).

So what did I do?

• Friday: scheduled rest day
• Saturday: unscheduled rest day. Woke up late.
• Sunday: almost - but not quite - 15m at the NYRR long training run.
• Monday: rest.
• Tuesday: 6m w/4m at HMP.  Couldn't figure out why the first two were so easy and the river looked so lovely and frothy until I reached the turnaround in my run - duh, it's called a tailwind!  Slightly faster than HMP for the four, and they were my first four instead of my middle four, but it felt good so I went with it.
• Wednesday: 5m recovery, on the treadmill because the heat is back.  Turned into a progression run accidentally because I wanted it done.
• Thursday: 6m on the treadmill, again.  Faster, partly because it's getting easier and partly because I wanted the treadmill OVER and OUT OF MY LIFE.

31.86m.  It would have been higher if I hadn't blown off Saturday.