10.02.2012

Kenyan Beach Weekend

Sept 24 - Sept 30
S:  9,232 yds - 2hr 9min
B:  60.47 mi - 3hr 32min
R:  42.57 mi - 5hr 30min
Total:  11hr 12min

With a good 3 days in Destin, FL at the beach with my family, this was clearly going to be a run heavy weekend.  After starting out the trip with a round of golf on Friday afternoon, the rest of the weekend was spent eating great seafood, hanging out on the beach, and getting in some quality running.  My days looked something like this: 
  • arise between 6am and 8am
  • 80-90 min run with quality
  • chocolate milk, roll, stretch, shower
  • eat massive amounts of breakfast and drink copious amounts of coffee
  • head to the beach and relax
Not a bad schedule, eh?  I enjoyed it.  33 miles of running in 2.5 days felt great.  As opposed to what you might think, the running was far from boring.  Our condo for the weekend was about a half mile from the massive Sandestin resort.  Within the resort was a bunch of neighborhoods with mansions and golf courses.  On one side of the resort was a 2 mile loop, perfect for 10 minute threshold sets.  On the other side of the resort was a 5k loop, perfect for a longer run.  Both loops were pretty flat with perfect, soft ashphalt, overhanging trees, and good scenery.  It was good to spend time with family as well.  Both brothers were down, so it was nice to have the whole family in one place for a few days.  Next up is Rev3 South Carolina half-ironman in less than 2 weeks.  I'm feeling good, we'll see what happens!

2 comments:

Accelerate3 said...

Golf? If I had known that I'd have given you more work to do.

Chad Williamson said...

haha..golf is actually pretty tiring, mainly because I'm walking/running all over the place trying to find the ball that I just sliced into the woods off the tee box!