A weird week

Why is it weird? I think I've mentioned I'm taking classes. I generally take one class for eight weeks. The class can be on Tuesdays from 6-10 or Thursdays from 6-10 or Saturday from 8-12 depending on which class it is. For the last two classes (16 weeks) I've been going on Thursday nights. For some reason, when I worked out my running schedule from February to October, I didn't take into account that this would obviously change occasionally. Ask me why I would even work out a plan that far in advance, I don't know. So, as of this week, I start a new class on Tuesday nights.

My old schedule:
Monday: Stairmill(after work)
Tuesday: Hills or speedwork(after work)
Wednesday: Weights or rest
Thursday: Training run(before work)
Friday: Weights or rest
Saturday: Long run
Sunday: Weights or rest

I don't really know what the new schedule is going to be yet. Yesterday afternoon I did my stairmill work, as scheduled and then did a four mile run this morning. It was pretty slow and I'm pretty tired now. I don't know if that is such a hot idea going forward. Especially since I should be ramping up my "training run" to six miles. There is no way I'm doing that less than 12 hours after tackling 200+ flights of stairs.

The other thing that makes this week weird is that I'm doing this 5K on Saturday. So I sort of want to taper a little, but not a lot, because seriously, its just a local 5K and I obviously haven't been training that hard. I don't expect to PR, due to this one time awesome race I had a few years ago. And if I'm not going to PR, there really isn't a lot of sense in ramping down my MPW by too much, especially when I'm just starting to get them where I want them.

So I think the plan for this week is to take tommorrow off (or lift some weights), run three miles Thursday morning and run one mile Friday afternoon. That is sort of a compromise taper. I don't know if such a thing actually exists, or if I just made it up and it will end up killing me. I guess we will find out.

In other news, my eating has been pretty good the last few days. I ate above maintenence on Sunday, when I had homework and didn't really exercise, but had a slight calorie deficit on Saturday and yesterday to make up for it. The scale is at 146.2 as of this morning. 145 is the weight I usually get to and then melt down and start pigging out for whatever reason. And I'm pretty much right on track for a downward spiral stemming from post-race entitlement and a fancy hipster birthday bash on Saturday afternoon. So, I guess I'm aware of it, now it just remains to be seen if I will do anything about it.

In still other news, I planted some bok choy and some chard about a month ago and I thought it was a no go due to the extremely crazy weather we have been having, but this morning I checked it after my run and something is coming up! A whole row of something! Unfortunately I cannot remember now if it is the chard row or the choy row. I hope choy. I love them both but its really difficult to find edible bok choy around without going to Whole Paycheck.