Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured

Felt really good after yesterdays long run.  My calves are really tight but the rest feels good.  Yesterday was a big confidence booster because I felt so good at the end.  I am going to try to practice some restraint however and use this week as a recovery week and give my body a little bit of a rest.  I am ready to up my daily mileage and I might still increase a little but will very cautious and after three weeks in a row of increasing my long runs, I will not increase my long run mileage this week. 

Happy Running! 

Last nights wind storm made me a little worried about running this morning but it had died down quite a bit by the time we ran.  Ran a nice flat, easy route this morning, however the effort felt pretty hard the last mile because we were in to the wind.  My legs felt better that I expected but pretty trashed from last week.  

Ave Pace 9:16

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Today started out absolutely horrible.  We started out with 1.5 miles up hill and into the wind.  My legs felt trashed still and my heart was racing the entire time and I could not get into a rhythm.  When we turned to go slightly downhill with the cross wind I just wanted it over with,  so I pick up the pace.  As I got going I decided to turn it into a 3 mile temp run to help speed it up.

 Mile 1 8:15 - 8:20 approx.  Felt really good

Mile 2 approx 8:00  started actually enjoying today's run

Mile 3 approx 7:35 Felt great but I have no idea how I sustained this during a 5K or 10K

Ran home at a pretty easy pace. It was nice to see the splits drop as I progressed but I know I should have pushed harder during mile 1. 

Ave Pace 8:48 (the first1.5 was insanely slow)

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I woke up with a horrible headache this morning but convinced myself that today was an easy recovery day and I would be okay.  I headed out with Paula but by 2 miles I was not feeling well at all.  I was having to stop and walk every few minutes and then ended up walking the last 1/2 mile home to avoid throwing up.  Hopefully the day improves.

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I woke up with a big knot in my stomach this morning and I was not sure what effect it would have on my run today. I ended up being pretty much okay until the very end and the bathroom started calling. I pushed hard on the hills today especially the last few tenths of each hill and also tried to stop as few times as possible. I ended up stopping for two very short stops to cross the street and one while we changed our route - maybe 45 sec. Overall a pretty good run but my knee is bothering me more and more. Hopefully my new shoes will come soon.

Ave Pace 8:57 (felt much faster, time to recalibrate my ipod+)

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PM:  20 min swimming laps in the pool.  It is getting so much easier as my kids swimming is improving but unfortunately they still fight so our swimming ended early, but 20 min is better than nothing. 

Another "easy" 3 with Paula.  I had originally planned on a little longer, but we got late start because I had a late night training session with our India office, however I had an 8 am phone call I needed to be ready for so we did not have a lot of time.  Three miles it was, hot, dust blowing in our eyes and mouths and just as hard as a normal run..........I do not like it when this happens to our easy days.

Ave Pace 9:33

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Paula wasn't feeling well this morning, so I ran on my own.  I headed up to my favorite area through Westridge golf course.  I ended up changing the route a bit and the first 6 miles were up hill.  Good training.  at about 5.25 I thought I might throw up put I made it through to come home.  My knee was twingy from the beginning but nothing serious until 7.5 miles.  I called my husband to come get me but as I kept trying to run it worked it self out so I called back and said never mind.   I ended up making it home but the knee was not happy.  I had my husband work my quad pretty good and found a big knot that he worked on, so hopefully it will be business as normal on Monday. 

Now the real test begins - Stake Primary Activity, 300 kids, 100 degree weather, I hope I survive to take a nap later.

Ave Pace 9:10

Happy Running!