Even my eyelashes hurt
SO, in an effort to salvage this week's mileage, I figured out that I need to do 25 miles in the next 2 days. Unfortunately, i also needed to get in my tempo run that I missed out on yesterday. On a positive end, it was in the 40's with bright sun (at least when i started...)
Angela met me on the track with her dog and helped me bank some miles before my tempo run. We ran an easy four miles catching up ojn our juicy gossip.
As the runners were returning from their aerobic run to do striders, i began my lonely tempo run. Goal was 6:30's for 20 minutes as we are still in base building AND the wind was kicking! Tempo felt amazing. Fought the wind (where my pace would drop to almost 7:00) and felt great! 5k split was 20:37, which I am happy with considering the weather and training phase.
With 6 miles more to do, decided to take a 4 minute break to change out of my flats and since it was now dark, opted to run on the track for a bit. Decided to do the next 5k as a progression run, starting slowly and increasing pace every lap by 10 sec/per mile. Gotta love that we have an amazing track, but no lights?! (No one could see how pathetic I was reaching for my mileage) began to feel it by 2.75, but pushed through as there was chocolate milk waiting for me.
Cooled down with another 3.2ish to call it good! Now I can't stop eating... |