Nothing to think about

I'm going to try to pick up my pace a bit. For the most part I'm content to go 6 mph, but I'd love to get that up to 8 mph. I don't have a strategy for that yet. Perhaps doing a gradual speed increase isn't the best way to do it, but I'll have to do some research. I wonder if I should be doing some sprints followed by a slower period and how that would work out. I'm not deviating from my pre-marathon training just to speed up. I could probably do it as part of one of my medium runs. Those are already four miles, so I could do a half mile slowish warm-up, then do quarter mile intervals. I'll see what the google has to say about that.

I have noticed one problem with my running that I've got to overcome. I don't have anything to really concentrate on or think about while I'm running. Sure, I've got television, and sometimes I get sucked into a good news story, movie, or cooking competition, but it's not enough. Today I was watching a show about the best fried food and a show about the best bar-b-q and neither of them could hold my attention. The only "best of" show that would have been better is one about the best fried bar-b-q. On a side note, if someone could score me some tempura fried bbq bacon I will love you forever.

So, I have nothing to focus on, and that means all I think about is how much my run hurts or how much longer I have to go. I need something that I can reliably think about for half an hour to an hour so that I can totally zone out. I've got some ideas of things that I could flesh out, but in addition to having nothing to focus on I also have a mind like an unlocked steel trap. It doesn't hold a damn thing. Really, if I want something remembered I have to write it down.

Screw it. Tomorrow I'm going to really concentrate on one idea while I'm doing my 4 treadmill miles and then after I'm done I'll write down (probably not here) whatever I've come up with. Perhaps that will workout for me.