Emily's training blog

Jenny's husband decided to do crossfit at 6 a.m., so I'm all alone on my Monday and Thursday runs again.  Myles woke up at 4:30, so I went earlier than usual.

It was warm, windy, and muggy this morning.  I didn't even need a long sleeved shirt.  With about 3 miles left it started to rain pretty hard.  I tried to open up my stride and pick up the last two miles, which are downhill.

I ran out 1300 W to 7000 S, to 2700 W and back to 5400 S.  Nice rolly loop.

I decided to start a little more speed work this week.  I didn't have a planned workout in mind, so I just joined Jenny for hers.  The nice thing was that I was able to train at 10 instead of 6 a.m.  A later start made a huge difference.

I didn't have huge aspirations for a first workout.  Jenny ran a 1 mile, 2 800's and 4 400's.  I did 3 800's and 4 400's.  I didn't feel quite ready to step up to mile repeats yet.  I just wanted to keep everything around 6 minute pace.  I ran 2:55, 2:56, and 2:54 for the 800's and 84, 83, 84, 84 for the 400's.  I did get quite a bit of recovery, with a full lap between repeats, but that's probably okay for the first workout. 

We warmed up 2.5 miles, and just cooled down a mile on the track.  A lot of the mileage today was rest laps in between repeats, but that will change as I get in better shape.

Overall, I was pretty pleased with my first post-baby track session.

Sore calf and a little laziness kept me from running the last couple of days.  I'm going to have to get serious about running, soon if I want to return to racing.  Though, it has been nice just running how I feel, when I feel like it. 

I did a tempo workout today.  I warmed up 10 minutes and then ran 10 minutes at 6:40 pace, 3 minutes recovery, 10 minutes at 6:30 pace, 3 minutes recovery, 5 minutes at 6:20 pace, 3 minutes recovery 5 minutes at 6:10 pace, 2 minutes recovery, 5 x 1 minute on/off at 5:40-6:00 pace.  I was at 8.78 miles at an hour, so I finished 1.22 miles for 10 total.

At 9:15 I went to Zumba.

I broke the 130 pound barrier.  I am now weighing in at 129 lbs.  9 lbs to go.  I'm starting to feel less chunky.

I am super sore from yesterday.  No surprise there.  I waited until this afternoon to run since this morning Cole had a soccer game.  I ran 2200W out to 4100S and down to the river trail.  While on the river trail I was overtaken by a bunch of people dressed in mideivel armor.  They were having a big battle.  I feel so much safer knowing that I am protected from all the orcs and trolls that threaten the river trail!  I love being entertained on my runs!  I was reminded of the movie Role Models.  I didn't know people really took their Dungeons and Dragons games live.

I got off the river trail at Millrace Park and slogged home.  My total time for the run was 1:01:56.  I need to get back to full weeks of training starting next week.