Road to Joy

I have been surprised at how little I can feel the run I did on Saturday.  There was some slight soreness that I felt for the first half mile but it got worked out quickly.  Thank goodness.  I was afraid I'd be too laid up to work hard this week.

The first half of this run was against the wind and uphill.  That's just the way I like a run.  That way I can finish rolling downhill, getting hustled forward by the wind, and feeling like the fastest person in the world.  I love a peaceful, happy feeling.

2.15 warm-up, 1.9 cool-down, 1mile - 2x800 - 4x400 - 2x800 - 1mile, .25 between each

So the idea of this one was to have some intervals where I ran faster than usual.  But I was sick.  I spent most of the time running for the nearest bathroom (which this fantastic trail has lots of!  love it!).  Also my legs felt mostly dead (which, on the sunny-side, is partly alive) most of the time.  This was another workout that I was just glad to make it through.

Easy miles done in the morning.  I tried to sneak out without waking my kids up this morning.  My baby woke up at 4:30am and then again at 5:15am so I decided to just get up instead of waiting for my 5:45 alarm.  I was all ready to go run when my alarm that I forgot to turn off went off downstairs with the kids.  My oldest and my baby woke right up and weren't about to go back to sleep again.  Luckily my parents are troopers and really good at turning on a movie so the boys were ok, I was able to run, and my parents still made it to work on time.

It was another dead-leg day.  Its starting to get a little old.  I still want to do a long run again on Saturday, but I might make it my last before the marathon that will be 4 weeks later.  I'm kind of nervous to cut it off so early - but since my legs just aren't healthy I'm probably going to have to do it.

1.5 mile warm-up, cool-down, 3 mile tempo

My legs were doing better.  I wasn't really excited about running fast until I was 2 miles into my tempo and I finally gave in to the fact that moving felt good.  It was another nice morning by the river - lots of morning birds - a whole load of pelicans were hanging out in a lake with crazy borders.  I liked it.

Things went much better this Saturday.  I made sure I had water all along the way - and whatayaknow - my body didn't seize up on me.  My testimony of water has made substantial gains in the last couple of weeks.