[S]he Conquers Who Endures

10 miles whatever pace to hit my corrected gait. Okay, I guess that's a 7:47 pace. :) I'll take it! I continued to work on minimizing my vertical and instead pushing forward. I noticed to helps to increase my cadence and focus on kicking my feet up behind me. I feel my center of gravity drop to my hips and thighs, my head is steady, and the trees fly by in my peripheral. It's awesome. I actually had very little soreness at this pace even at the end of my run. I attribute that to the decreased pounding accumulated by my lower vertical. I think I'm on to something here! 

And note, I beat my 10 miler PR today on a training run, not going all out, no gels, wearing my fuel belt!! And, I'm back in the game! :) 

Recovery run, 8:45 pace. Ouch, my knee hurt during this run!!! I think bc of the slow pace, but I couldn't go faster on this run.

Crossfit

3 rounds:

50 squats

7 chest to bar

10 hang power clean (45 lbs)

Time: 6:36

5x1min plank

4x20 band pulls 

Bikram and PT exercises.

Oh weather! I drove up to the suburbs to meet up with a friend for some tempo miles. It started raining and was 55 out and the runners that were out did not look happy! I was not prepared for the cold rain. Luckily my friend wasn't either. I drove back to the city and ran on the dreadmill! I can't believe I actually ran on the dreadmill! I'm the type of person to run outside no matter what. I've run 20 milers at 0 F and 85 F since I hate the treadmill so much. Oh well. I did 6 miles at 8:13 pace then 10x100 m strides 10 MPH to 11 MPH (6:00 to 5:36 min/mi pace) at 1% incline.  

4 mile recovery run. 9:00 average pace. The path was so deserted probably because of all the runners tapering for the marathon Sunday. It was funny to see a runner because they would smile at me and say "hi" (more so than normal). I'm guessing those were the marathon runners that were putting in their final mileage. Tapering marathoners are so cute! 

15 mile long run, sooooo cold at start!...and finish!!! 39F/44F. 8:13 average pace. Whoopsies! Honestly, it did feel pretty easy. I felt like I was running slow!! I love practicing this new gait. :)

Course marshaling the Chicago marathon tomorrow! I'm so excited to watch the elites fly by! I never spectated a marathon before, hopefully I'll absorb some of their super powers and witness some new course PRs with this cold weather! :)