Christi

Did a track workout outside today! Alternated 800s and 1000s. Did 800, 1000, 800, 1000, 800, 400 with 2 minute 200 m jog in between each. My splits were 2:59, 3:43, 2:55, 3:42, 2:52 and the 400 was at 1:16. This workout felt pretty good-in spite of the wind and cold. (did a couple strides too)

Did 13 on the mill today...yes-I am crazy. (This is what happens when your husband works so much that you can never run outside unless you hire a sitter) Anyway-did the first two miles easy-warming up-next two were at 8 minute pace. Then miles 5-12 were at 7:40 pace and mile 13 was 7:30 pace. (kept adjusting the incline as to mimic running outside.) Anyway-felt pretty good

Did 3x1600s on the mill with 800 jog in between. Splits were 6:25, 6:20 and 6:15. Felt more tired than I should have for those times...not quite as fast as I would like. (I think I need to try to get outside more and do them on the track) warm up and cool down

2 is all I was able to do today as I am tending kids right now...

Ran a 3 mile race today to kick off the heart health fair..Best part is it was free!! Anyway-got to the line about 3 minutes before starting-so no warm up or anything. Started with some boys-but some of them petered off by the first mile and it was only me and one boy just ahead of me. First mile was 6:09, the boy kept slowly getting ahead.. Second mile was 6:20-I was trying to reel the boy in-but he was too far ahead. Third mile showed 5:39-but I think the course was only 2.91 miles instead of 3-judging by my garmin) I really think my final mile would have been around 6:14. Anyway-I was second overall-the boy beat me by 23 seconds and I won a 25 dollar gift certificate-not bad for a free race. Felt really relaxed the whole time-looking back I know I could've pushed it more-but I didn't. I'm saving the pushing for the half marathon coming up.