THOU SHALT BE A COMEBACK

7:50 AP treadmill.  I was supposed to run this morning at dark thirty.  I had a vivid nightmare about coyotes attacking me during my run and starting to rip me apart and kill me on the dirt road by my house and woke up in a cold sweat with my heart pounding to my morning alarm--to go run on the dirt road by my house.  So, I didn't; all because of a bad dream.  I am being silly I know but it was a pretty awful dream.  Anyways I ran on the treadmill this evening while David did his military workout video.  Tribal hill workout tomorrow!

94 degrees.  6 pm.  Tribal hill workout.  1.36 warm-up slow.  Steady up and down the hill at good aerobic effort--came out to 5.74 miles at 7:52 pace and I was hurting pretty good at the end.   I lost count but I believe we went up that hill 12 times, give or take one.  I stayed with Eddy until the last trip up the hill when he charged and dropped me like a hot potato.  When we were coming back down I kicked and came back up on him so he had to kick it into gear fast and finished about a second ahead of me.  Good times and a good sprint at the end.  1.36 mile cool down, by now it had cooled to 89 refreshing degrees.  We paused 3 times during the hill repeats to quickly swig some water, and stopped at the water fountain while cooling down on the way back.   I did something I have never in all my 31.5 years have ever ever done, and ditched my shirt, running in a sportsbra and shorts.  Desperate times call for desperate measures and I needed some breeze on my torso to help cool off.  Good thing my fellow tribe member Wendy also ditched the shirt for the first time, so we broke it in together.  Turns out it was no big deal.  I'm over it now and will probably run shirtless more often.

6 treadmill at 8:22 AP before I picked up the kids

6 treadmill at 8:29 AP after dinner while my husband did his workout

My legs aren't sore from the hill workout but they are definitely tired.  I could have run outside for the first set of miles today but it was 97 degrees at the time and my dirt roads have zero shade, so I opted out and tolerated the boredom of the treadmill instead.

7:34 AP.  Treadmill.  Started at 8:34 pace and gradually picked up speed. Last 4 miles at 7:19 pace.  On the treadmill I found this rather grueling but it is better than no run at all.

8:33 AP.  95 degrees, heat index 100, humidity 44%.  No shade.  Dirt roads. But, I just couldn't bear another day on the treadmill.  I opted for the long sleeve approach today to save my white tender skin.  I plodded along slowly and listened to my tunes.  Really, all in all, it wasn't as terrible as I imagined it might be.

7:33 AP.  It was pretty humid but we started at 5:45 am so temps were in the seventies for the run.  Yes!  I started off the first 10.24 with Eddy before he split off and had to go.  I then took a gu and ran to the fire station and back and kept the momentum.  I felt strong the whole time.  I'm pretty surprised that I ran 17 miles at slightly faster than my PR marathon pace.  This makes me feel pretty good about a big PR at my next marathon.  I have concluded that 60-70mpw really is my optimal training range.