It's been a while since I've "had" to get up early, so this morning was a bit of a struggle. That is one good thing/bad thing about being sometimes in charge of the group: you have to go whether you want to or not. I always want to, but you know what they say, the spirit is willing, the body is sometimes weak.
The news said it was supposed to snow this morning. So I dreamed that it was bright and sunny for our group, and we all said the weathermen really got it wrong this time. Then when I got up, I remembered about the snow, so I looked out halfway hoping a blizzard was going on, but no such luck. So off to the group I went. Of course, once I got there and got going, I really enjoyed being back with everyone. We ran around the Tithing Hill area. I wanted to do a version of what I think the Kenyans do for a warm-up, that is starting really slowly then speeding up gradually as you go along. However, I couldn't see my watch to tell everyone when it was time to speed up, so we just basically ran whatever for the warm-up, and if you were like me, it was basically the same pace the entire way. I'll have to try that again when I can actually see what I'm doing. Anyway, we ran some hill sprints, 30 seconds and 1 minutes, then did a 10 minute tempo run out to the trail and back. One good thing, I wasn't coughing and didn't feel sick after, so who knows what the old thyroid is doing. When it's really out of whack, I feel quite sick after running. None of that today, so that's a good thing. And the snow was so nice, it waited until we were about done before it started. We were meant to do this workout today. Later, I went to the Rec Center with the plan of doing about 10 minutes on the stair master, and I made it to 17 minutes. Don't ask me why I didn't just continue on and make it an even 20 minutes, let's just say I'd had enough fun for one day. Thanks everyone for coming to the group and making it a lot of fun. |