Rothman (and working full time)

So now that I've been working at my new full-time (8-5) job for two weeks and have been training twice a day on top of that, I have a race under my belt and finally got some real feedback from my body and learned how I'm handling it. The answer is apparently not very well. I felt bad in the race and was pretty tired; I didn't sleep exceptionally well going into it but I don't know if it's possible to be well-rested getting up at 5:30 and working all day. 

The race itself was a little rough, as I alluded to. I didn't feel 100% beforehand and warming up but I still thought it would be decent. We went out quite fast, 4:36 at the mile, which put me deep into the red. Compounding the problem was the fact that I was utterly alone after the mile, so I slowed down pretty hard despite my best efforts to hold a good pace. I ended up running 24:13 thinking I was in sub 24 shape. 

In two weeks from today I'll run another 5 miler, Brian's Run up in PA. It has decent money but perhaps better for me is the fact that it's the Sunday after Thanksgiving, which will give me 3 days beforehand of no work and good rest. 

Another change I'm making starting this week to get more rest is running once a day and sleeping in an extra hour or so. Obviously my mileage will drop a bit but since it is the end of this cycle I figure it's a good time to experiment and see how I feel the next two weeks running 80-90 mpw in fewer runs. If it goes well I may continue this schedule indefinitely and see how I can race throughout the next cycle on singles. Since I'll be focusing on 1500-5k distances I shouldn't see performance suffer much if I increase the quality a bit.