Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured

I am traveling everyday this week, which makes trying to run difficult.   I am in Syracuse today and ended up with 8 miles at 1.5% incline on the treadmill.  Nothing like running after flying all day and then a client dinner.   It was much harder than it should have been.....

1 mile to meet Jenny, 5 together and then another back home.   

I always look forward to when we can run together.  She did great today and I stuck to a pretty easy pace.   

Running at 5:30 in the afternoon is not my first choice - ever.  86 degrees, windy and lots of traffic.  I had one hour to get my run in while my daughter was a volleyball practice and before the other daughter's game.   It felt so much harder than it should have and the legs were tired. 

 Avg Pace 8:28

We had an extremely busy day - hosting senior breakfast for the volleyball team, my two younger daughters both had games, my older daughter had a work out with a new club, dinner with friends and my son had 3 baseball games.  Somewhere in this mess I had to get my last big workout in.   The goal was 15 miles with 9 MP tempo miles.     I ended up on the treadmill at the Y between the two volleyball matches and had to move fast.   Three mile warm up with 4 min on at just under MP and then 1 min recovery, repeated for 9.25 miles.   This actually went by really fast and I felt good the entire time.  I would think I was tired every once in a while, and I had to tell myself I was bored, not tired.   I watched college football and for the second weekend in a row was subjected to watching OU play.  I am not a huge UT fan, but they were a disaster.   I had time to just get in 14 and had to rush to the next game....Next weekend is not any better. 

Ons @ 7:53 pace with 1.5% incline

Offs @ 8:57 pace with 1.5% incline