Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured

8 easy paced miles with Annette on some of the hilly streets in my neighborhood and the neighborhood to the west.   I think the heat and humidity is starting to wear me down, I almost threw up twice and dry heaved a bit all between miles 3 & 4.  I am feeling more hydrated than I have been but still not feeling great.   Nothing like working harder for worse results.   I keep hoping that once it cools off, it will be better.  

Lunch: 3 easy on the treadmill

Best run I have had in over a month.   I met Ashley, Tim and Lindsey for an early morning hill based run.  We warmed up for a mile and then did a 2.2 mile loop that climbs the big hill outside my office and a few little ones around the area and back down.   Completed the loop twice and then did 4x10 second sprints.  We tried to find the other road that had the steep hill and in the dark, we went past it.   I ran them back to the cars and then added on another 2.75 to get to 10 for the day.   This run felt a lot like the BBK runs, no watch glancing, just running hard and having a good time....hopefully, we can continue to meet.

Avg Pace 8:18

Right now Wednesday's are recovery days for me, nice slow and enjoyable.  I ran 1.5 to meet Jenny, 3 with her and then back home.  My legs felt yesterdays run, but nothing too bad.

1.5 to meet Annette, 6 with here and another mile home.   Only 45% humidity today - wow!  It made the 83 degrees bearable.    Nice moderate paced run and if I could quit messing up my garmin, I might have an avg pace.  Estimate is 8:40.

I met Ashley, Britt, Lindsey & Wendy at the store ( Tim said a quick hi and was gone) and the plan was to get in as many miles as I could before I had to leave to go to volleyball.   The weather this morning was spectacular!  70 degrees and low humidity.....I didn't think much of it, until we started looking at our pace a few miles in and it was much faster than we had been running and the effort was not nearly as hard - Yeah!   We did an 8 mile loop and then started out again and I turned back a early and added on around the store until my family came to pick me up.   Very happy with the avg pace - 8:02 -MP.   

Splits:  8:51, 8:11, 8:03, 7:58, 8:05, 8:07, 813, 8:03, 7:51, 7:50, 7:48, 7:25, 8:15, 7:37

We spent the morning watching my daughter play with her high school volleyball team.   There is nothing better than watching your kids excel at something the love and work so hard at.   As a freshman she made the JV team, but play 2.5 matches with varsity today.  Very, very proud mom!

We have since scrubbed the house and have 14 teammates here to spend the night.   So much for catching up on my sleep this weekend :)