Christi

Ran an easy 5.5 miles while camping. The road was really rocky with soft dirt and was very hilly-but I just ran a slow easy pace. It was relaxing-I love running in the mountains! My average pace was about 8:50.

I did  long run today on the mill. I didn't get up early to run this morning outside and considering the 10 miler is in a week and a half I wanted to get my last long run in today. I ran the first 3 and a half miles around 8:55 pace-then I set the incline to zero and ran the next 4 and a half miles at tough tempo pace progressively getting faster. Splits are as follows 7:15, 7:08, 7:02, 6:55 and last 800 meter at 6:42 pace. (average 7:03 pace) I felt really good.

*my reason for setting the incline at zero is because the 10miler coming up is all down hill

Ran 3.5 easy miles on the mill around 9:15 pace

Ran intervals today at the track. This was my first real "track interval" workout in a very long time. Did 4x800s with a 400 walk/jog in between. My times are as follows. 2:56, 2:57, 2:55 and 3:03. (yes I was definitely feeling the burn on the last one) The ROTC came and started doing their workout while I was in the middle of mine, so that was kind of rough. It brought back memories of the dreaded interval workouts in college. I felt pretty good though-it was nice to be able to run "fast" and see where I was at. Next time I will have to start earlier as it was already 75 degrees or so when I started.