Just one race at a time

Rest day

I just looked at my legs for the lake to lake relay and I have one huge hill during one of the legs.  I thought I might want to add more hills to my training to get prepared for this.  I set the incline to 3% and ran at 9:13 for .5 miles then I did 2X 400 meter repeats at 7:30 with 100 meter rest.  I then changed the incline to 2% and repeated the intervals.  Finally I did three more intervals at 1% for a total of 7 I then cooled down at 10:00 Pace.  I could really tell the difference in the incline but it was funny that my legs didn't hurt as much and my lungs at 3%.  I am going to have to do this more often and see if I cant kill the hills this year!!!

Lifted for legs

Push-ups tonight

4.1 EZ miles I started to throw in a few hill but decided against it.  If I am going to make my hard days really hard I have to make my easy days easier.  Tomorrow I have spin again and I want to be ready.

Push-ups last night I did week 2, day 1, column 3 with a max of 20.  I wanted to stop at 15 but hubby was watching so I went for more which tells me I have been stopping too soon.

Set the treadmill at 1% incline, ran .5 @ 9:13 ran 2.5 @ 8:27 ran .5 @ 8:00 The last .5 was very hard but I was "racing" the guy next to me!  If he only knew how close he came to winning or that he was even in a race :)

Lifted hams and quad

Spin

3 miles easy today

Lifted for abs back

Spin

Push-ups Day 2 Week 2 Column 3 Max only 17 very hard today not sure why, did them after spin maybe should have waited longer?

6 elliptical miles at 12% resistance.  Very hard again this week I did it in 47:17 so faster than last week but I was dead at the end.

Lifted for legs

Yoga - Aaaaaaah felt so good!

I was really sad when it was still snowing when I woke up.  SDRR was not meeting today and I couldn't bring myself to run in the snow alone... I know I am a wuss.  Anyway I read Teena's report and thought if she could do 13 miles on a treadmill I could do 6.  Got on and ran 2 easy miles then went to half marathon pace for a mile.  Our poor old treadmill sounded like it was going to break in half so I slowed to a easy pace for the rest of the miles.  I really should have gone to the gym or just toughed it out outside, I feel like these miles were total junk miles.

Push-ups I did week 2 day 3 column 3 with 24 as max (had to at least tie Teena!)  I think they are starting to feel... not really easier but more manageable if that makes any sense at all.