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• 3 miles on the TM, still at a very easy pace
• 2 x 1 min planks...I was determined to make it to 1 min this time!  I've been trying for a week or two now.  I think my abs are fully back together and functioning normally...crazy that they can separate and then come back when the baby is out.

Last night I had the feeling that I was just about fully recovered.  I really want to be able to run more days this week and start increasing my mileage.  I hope it sticks!  I want to get this thing started. :)

• 2.5 easy miles on the TM

• 5 mile run with the baby jogger to the Bountiful post office to get stamps

Wanted to go longer today and I got what I was looking for: burning lungs and tired muscles. :)  I felt like I kind of got into a groove today.  The jogger throws me off.  I did however decrease my AP by 49 seconds this time with the jogger.  I would rather be able to do all my runs outside by myself as opposed to on the TM or with the jogger, BUT I'm glad I can still run and it's kind of fun having her tag along.  Baby girl was awake the entire 2.5 miles home and loved looking around at everything!  She's so cute! 

• 50 minutes spinning
• strength training circuit (arms, obliques, quads)

Needed a good workout to keep up the conditioning effort, but I wanted to rest my running muscles so I don't buildup the mileage too fast and get injured.  There wasn't a spinning class when I could go this morning and I canNOT for the life of me workout hard on a stationary bike by myself like some of you crazies, so I found this recording of a live cycling class online.  I went into the empty spinning room and used one of the bikes.  It was actually a pretty good workout! 

Avg HR 150 (I got it up to 172 during some of the sprints)

http://archive.org/details/FreeIndoorCyclingWorkout33

There is just music for awhile at the beginning, but eventually you hear talking.  It's easier to understand as time goes on.  I'm glad I found this so I have something to fall back on when I can't make it to spinning! 

• 30 minutes stair climber (level 7)
• 2200 meters row machine @ level 8 for 11 minutes total.  Worked really hard to keep the pace at 2:30 minutes per 500 meters.  Tough workout, my back and arms are tired!

Allie's Wedding Bells 5K tomorrow!  My plan is to avoid going out at the start as if I'm still in 2010 and 20 lbs lighter so I don't embarrass myself and get too winded to finish at a decent pace. :)  I'll probably shoot for about 9:30 AP.  It's sad that I'm that slow right now!  Maybe I'll surprise myself and be faster --or slower- ...we will see!

I had so much fun at the 5K today!  Thanks Allie and James for putting that on.  It was fun to celebrate your special day with you!  It was also great to meet so many FRB runners in person.  I met Allie, Bonnie, Tara, Kam, Kelli, Catherine, Eric (facelessghost), Andrea, Jake K, Carina, James (fiddy) and the entire Sasha Pachev family!  I also saw RAD after her awesome 1:30 AF Half finish time!  Today was really inspiring.  It was great to be surrounded by so many runners who work hard each week and are dedicated to such a positive activity.  I think the most inspiring part of today was watching all those Pachev kids kick some major trash!  They are incredible.  It was fun to watch Jake and Andrea's team fly around the track, too.

• race times here
• race pictures here

Anyway, here is my race report: I've got my work cut out for me.  I could pretty much stop there. :)  I wanted to get a good baseline, so it was nice to have this flat 5K today.  And let me tell you, we're starting pretty low here folks.  But I guess that's too be expected since it's only been 5 weeks since baby girl came.  It's been about 1.5 years since I've been where I want to be running wise, but now I can start working on it again and I'm happy about that.

• Lap 1 - 2:07, 8:30 AP oooops, rookie mistake 
• Lap 2 - 2:21, 9:38 AP
• Lap 3 - 2:27, 10:05 AP this is when I thought "how long are these stupid 5K's anyway??"
• Lap 4 - 2:28, 10:12 AP
• Lap 5 - 2:31, 10:10 AP
• Lap 6 - 2:34, 10:20 AP
• Lap 7 - 2:35, 10:04 AP
• Lap 8 - 2:46, 11:03 AP
• Lap 9 - 2:25, 9:32 AP
• Lap 10 - 2:28, 9:50 AP
• Lap 11 - 2:15, 9:16 AP
• Lap 12 - 2:05, 8:28 AP
• Lap 12.5 - :59, 7:40 AP wanted to see what my current VO2Max is

Thanks to Tara and Kam for making sure I didn't have to be out there by myself at the end! It really helped to have them helping through the end! :)