Why I Oughta!!!

What a tough start!  I got out by 4am, but the first mile was a drag.  I literally dragged myself down the road.  I took a few walk breaks for the first 2 miles.  The second mile was a hill climb.  That hurt... but mile 3 was all down hill.... nice!  I slowly picked it up every mile until mile 6, I felt great! 

Mile 1 = 10:14, mile 2 = 9:31, mile 3 = 8:33, mile 4 = 8:27, mile 5 = 8:18, mile 6 = 8:04, and mile 7 = 8:34

At lunch I did 1 hour of upper body weight training.  Threw in a few abs too! 

Now it's 5:30 pm and I'm tired.  I will forgo my monday swim so I can sleep.  Good Nite!!

Hill work taday....  I sleep long last night, which was very needed!!!! I missed my chance to run this morning.  So... in between meetings at work, I stopped by the Rec Ctr and ran my hills on the treadmill... That was a first!!  I thought it would hurt to run hills on the treadmill, but found the whole experience to be very enjoyable!!

I started with a 1 mile warm-up at 9:55 pace.  Then I ran 5 hills at an 8% grade.  The intervals were 400 meters up and 400 meters recovery.  The pace on the up-hills were 9:05 to 9:15, and the recoveries were flat at a pace of 9:30 to 9:45.  I then ran 2 more miles at interval paces of 7:30 to 9:15.  I felt good, and I was soaked.  While cleaning my treadmill of my sticky sweat with a cleaner, I notices I soaked the treadmills on each side of me.  That was probably why the guy next to me left on my second hill.  Whew!!!

Cathy and I swam laps this afternoon at the City pool.  We swam 1 mile.  I wasn't breathing very well... I never got into the groove.  I had to stop every 10 laps to breath for a minute.  I did get a 20 lap section in from lap 40 to lap 60. 

I went out for an easy run and just carried the garmin to chime in the mile markers.  I started out very easy and progressively ran faster each mile.  I did the same thing Monday for my easy run.  My mile splits: mile 1 = 9:07, mile 2 = 8:37, mile 3 = 8:31, mile 4 = 8:19, mile 5 = 8:06, mile 6 = 8:00, and the tenth was a 7:57 pace.

I didn't feel like doing much today.  Before my yoga class I walked 1 mile and ran 1 mile on the treadmill.  Then biked 3 miles on the stationary bike.  Yoga class was great!

Long run with Cathy, Elijah , and Cordon.  Cordon and I ran ahead, and Cathy spent a majority of her run trying to motivate Eli to keep going.  We ran 9 miles uphill to snow cyn and bluff.  Then we ran 7 miles downhill on bluff st. and trail.  Jumped in the pool since the temperature was getting up in the mid 80's.  We started at 4:30am and I swear it was already 80's.

Saturday I biked 38.5 miles.  Most of it was a tempo pace above 20 mph.