Emily's training blog

I got to run a little later this morning. It's nice to have the legs a little more awake. Spring mornings are beautiful. 9.25 7:02 average.

I'm concentrating on building mileage for another month, so most of my intervals will be fartlek instead of measured.  I will throw a few measured intervals in.  I kind of feel that if I race on the roads, I should do most of my training on the roads.  

I warmed up fifteen minutes.  I ran 10 x 3 minutes on/2 minutes off.  I just cooled down until I hit ten miles.  6;49 average for the entire workout, warm up, and cooldown.  (7:55, 7:21, 6;32, 6;53, 6:49, 6;22, 6;28, 6;49,6;34, 6;28)  You can definitely tell that there was uphill and downhill in the workout.

My mileage goal for this week is 70.  I am happy to be building up again. Later AM: Zumba! Oh, how I've missed you!

Early morning ramble through the neighborhoods of T-ville. I was hungry this morning! 7:23 average. Sore calves.

Gym day. Slept in. Should have waited one more day for tempo. Warmed up twenty minutes. Ran a progressive tempo, starting at 6:44 ave, and increasing every five minutes to 6:03 average. My treadmill was correctly calibrated. It made me realize how slow I was on the old one. I could only hold for eight miles. About 6:25 average. I cooled down until I hit twelve miles.

Nooner (run, that is!) Hubby is off work, which means I get to run later in the day. My legs were tired, but perked up a bit at the end of the run. I listened to a creepy story about twin sisters who wouldn't talk to anybody but each other. And, an interesting TED Talk on identity.

I timed my run just right, this morning. I ran with Jenny, James, and Daniel at six. We all had varying distances, which broke the run up nicely. I ran 18. We threw down two marathon pace miles in the middle for James. I felt good today. As we finished, it started to pour. Glad to be done. Glad to hit 70 this week.