Becoming a 4-dayer :)

So I've joined the Virtual Run Club which is an accountability club, and I think it will be great for me, as I have a tendency to talk myself out of runs occasionally (but I have so many GREAT excuses). I've also made the executive decision to start running 4 days per week. My current plan calls for 3 days of running, 2 days of cross-training, and 2 days of strength training (one of those being concurrent with a run day). I'm adding a run to the other day of strength training as well. I'm doing this for 2 reasons: 1. I just don't FEEL like 3 days a week of running is enough. 2. The mileage is only going up .5 miles every 3 weeks on the long runs and I would like my weekly mileage to be higher so that I am approaching the 15-18 mile/week range by 10K time. The extra run will be a "no rules" run. If I'm not feeling it, I'll still go, but it can be a mile and I'll accept it. On the other hand, if I'm feeling good, I might try to do a little speed or a longer run (up to but not exceeding the most recent "long run").

So to reiterate:
Sun: cross (hopefully swim as a long run recovery)
Mon: "no rules" run, yoga
Tues: shortish run (2.5 - 4 miles as training progresses)
Wed: cross (usually wallyball)
Thurs: short run (2-3 miles as training progresses), yoga
Fri: NOTHING
Sat: "long run" (3-6 miles as training progresses)

I did a 2ish-miler yesterday (I didn't get to it on Tuesday). I didn't map it out exactly and I didn't take my watch. I just went. I felt like I was going faster though so ... that's good right?

I wanted to announce my current pace goal: this is not the time for speed, this is the time for endurance. However, I don't want endurance to equal slow. So for the time being, my only goal is to keep the runs under 12:00 pace.