glidergirl

• 3 easy TM miles

• 5.5 miles 5th south loop with tempo run as follows:
  • 1.5 mile warm up
  • 2.5 mile tempo @ 8:34 AP!
  • 1.5 mile cool down
• abs w/ 3 x 1 min planks

I wanted to do a tempo run today and try to maintain my 5K and 10K AP's that I got on the 4th and 24th of this month (8:59 and 8:53). I was able to maintain 8:30's and it felt so good!  So this tells me (1) I should have warmed up more for the races (2) my lungs are getting more conditioned each week and (3) I had a little too much kick in me at the end and could have gone a bit faster during the races.  I was too nervous, though, because it's hard to know what you really can do when you first come back and I didn't want to fall apart during the race.  Now I know I need to push it harder and need to shoot for at least 8:30's AP during my tempo runs for the upcoming weeks.  I want to work up to 10K tempos as well.  I was planning to do a 5K today, but my Garmin totally froze right at 2.5 miles into it, so I decided to just stop the tempo pace and cool down.  The watch eventually came back to life 1.5 hours after the run, but it's still finicky and has been for about a month now.  I need it to last a little longer, though...we can't buy anything extra right now until I start work again. =0)  Stay with me Garmin, stay with me!!

• 5 miles on the treadmill, 1% incline
  • 1 mile 6.0mph
  • alternating 0.5 mile 7.0mph then 0.5 mile 6.0mph for 4 miles
  • TT 47:38, 9:31 AP
• abs with 2x1 min planks

Today has been such a great running day for me!  It started off with me not wanting to run on the TM, but I did it anyway and I felt really strong!  The 7.0mph seemed a lot easier than it did a few weeks ago.  I just felt stronger period today doing the run and the ab workout. Yay! :) THEN I was checking Facebook and I'm a fan of the Big Cottonwood Half Marathon page when I saw MY name in their status post...I won a free entry to do the half!!  I am beyond excited!  And then I thought "crap, when is it, I gotta get ready" haha. :)  It's Sept 22, which gives me 6 Saturdays, so I think I'll be fine. I can't wait to start "training" for it!  Such a great day! :)

• 3 easy TM miles, 9:35 AP

Bear Lake today, family reunion at a cabin this weekend.  We runners should get a medal for our great time management skills in order to get all our miles in. :)  Hoping to do 27 miles this week, so I went easy today in order to do a longer run tomorrow or Saturday depending on baby's schedule.  Hailey is sleeping through the night longer and longer each morning, which is great (yay!), but I miss my little 5am alarm clock (aka hungry baby) which gave me enough time to get her back to bed and run outside before James needs to go to work.  Now we both wake up too late so the treadmill it is! 

• 7 miles, 4th north loop
• abs, foam rolling

Decided to set my alarm so I could run 7 miles here at home and outside instead of by myself in the woods tomorrow when we go to the reunion.  (Turns out my baby slept till AFTER I got home...12 hours straight! Woot woot! And I was out running and missed the exciting extra sleep I hear other moms talk about hahaha. :) )  I fell back asleep after the alarm went off and woke in a panic and had to rush out the door so I could be back for James to go to work (makes for a great motivation to keep up the pace during a run!).  I was still in rush mode the first few miles so I worked on relaxing everything so I could run more efficiently and enjoy it.  The last few miles were great because I pushed myself to get my AP below 10:00 and I wanted to have that "I ran hard this morning" sort of tired/satisfaction today. Each day I'm feeling less and less like I ran earlier in the day, so that tells me I can keep pushing it harder, which is really great.  I keep expecting to bonk again, but I just feel stronger each day instead.  My garmin died at 6.10 miles, but I have learned my lesson and kept checking it.  It said 10:05 AP and at the rate I was running I'm pretty sure I got it down below 10:00 by the time I got home.  It was hard for me to get even 10:30 AP and eek out a 5.5 mile run just a couple weeks ago. I'm hoping to have most of my runs under 10:00 from now on, unless there are lots of hills or I'm really tired.  Not sure what to do about the Garmin situation.  I could beg my husband for a loan...he saves all of his personal money and has who knows how much racked up in his personal account.  Me?  Running is my pimp, I am its "b" and I spend every DIME on it. :)