THOU SHALT BE A COMEBACK

8:06 average pace. 12 degrees- quite nice compared to Saturday.  Started to feel really good after a while and picked up the pace.  Ran mostly over packed snow on the dirt roads. Slowest mile 8:59, fastest 7:21.

one circuit of strength drills.  Right knee is a little IT band buggy.  Will keep an eye on it.  The sore foot and ankle from Saturday have faded away.

8:24 average pace.  The plan was to take it super easy so first mile was 9:17, did the last few miles at 7:40 pace--for some reason running in the winter with the snow is just uplifitng to my spirit and after a while I can't help but pick up the pace and smile when I am running.  Super cheesy, I know.

8:57 average pace.  Nice and easy, went a little extra because tomorrow is going to be -5 and I may get up early and drive into town to hit a treadmill.

7:53 overall average pace.  Treadmill day!  Temps -10 outside with howling wind.  Drove to building 1 to the treadmill I can use for free.  Felt weird to run in shorts and a T-shirt and boy 67 degrees feels downright HOT.  Sweated a ridiculous amount.  Set incline to 0.5% since I am taking it easy on my knee still. 

2 miles at 8:41 pace

4 miles at 7:30 pace(brisk but fairly comfortable--marathon pace in April?)

2 miles at 6:58 pace(now this just felt much harder than it does outside-half-marathon pace?)

1 mile cool down 9:13--10:00 pace.

Once again, hats off to the folks who run on the dreadmill often because it kicks my tail.  Although, I think I may start running on it once a week for tempo-type runs like this to build up stamina--the treadmill belt doesn't slow down!

8:23 average.  Treadmill again.  Woke up to -18 with wind chill this morning.  A little scary cold for me.  Took it easy, starting at 8:41 pace and then going to 8:20 pace for the majority of the run.  Back on the road with the group tomorrow--it is supposed to get up to 6 degrees at noon so that's when we're going for an easy 10! 

And, in other news, I took my nursing boards(NCLEX) this morning.  The computer shut down at 75 questions, which is the minimum possible, which means I either ACED it, or, totally and completely BOMBED.  I will probably not know until Monday, since it takees 48 hours to pay money with a credit card online to get your "unofficial" results.  Thinking about it just makes me want to vomit.  Failure is really not an option at this point.

Nice and easy with the group.  It was cold but bearable.  We had to stop a lot for traffic and to pick our way over ice everywhere so that made pace slower.  10:48 average! :)  My legs are greatful and I got to have a really good talk with a super nice girl named Wendy.  Next weekend I am traveling with the group to do the wickedly hilly Topeka to Auburn half marathon.  This is  no PR course but it should be a heckuva workout!