Just one race at a time

Rest day - woke up in pretty bad shape.  I went to church and then came home and slept for 5 hours.  

Today should have been a speed day but I switched it for my easy day 5 easy miles felt hard.

Went to do my speed day.   I still don't feel well but I am so far behind in my training as it is I went anyway.  Warmed up with one mile at 9:13 then I did 800 meters at 7:30.  My legs felt really good but I got light headed at the end.  After the rest interval I still felt light headed.  I did one more interval and knew it was not going to work.  I really want to get better fast, but old grandmas like me must take a long time to heal.  I will try and get in some easy miles tonight just to make my brain feel like I am not falling too far behind.  I know they really wont help that much physically. 

I got to the gym late, I had to heal a broken heart.  Why do 16 year olds think they need to fall in love? I now need to go out and buy more tissue and chocolate!

3% decline 3 miles at 9:13, 1.3 miles at 8:34 and .2 miles at 6:40 (I thought I was going to die!)

Lifted for legs

Spin - Hard hill class but I felt like I could get some good speed even on the hills.  I think it might be because of the rest I have had due to my illness.

Six easy miles.  Heart break is almost healed...I even got to hear those elusive words "Mom you were right!"

6 elliptical miles first three at 11% resistance last three at 9% in 43:05

Lifted for legs

Yoga

My legs felt really great today, I am sure it is from all the time I took off being sick.  I promised Andy that I would only do 15 miles today (I had thought about doing 22)  At the 7.5 mile mark I felt so good I thought Ill just go .5 more and do 16 at the 8 mile mark I thought Ill just do one more and make it 18 then I thought better and turned around at 8.25. 

The miles just seemed to fly by and they all felt very easy.  I think part of it was a slight change in form.  When I ran with Smooth, Maynard and Kimmy two weeks ago we saw the BYU cross country team.  Their form was so effort less.  Smooth mention than when I ran you couldn't see the bottom of my shoe like you could with them.  I was doing more of an old lady shuffle then at true stride.  During this run I pretended then I had funny pictures on the bottoms of my shoes that I wanted to show everyone.  I really concentrated on trying to get a true stride.  It was really easy with my right leg but my left leg just wanted to flop along.  I think I am going to work on this for the next little while.  So if I run with any of you in the near future please check out my form and feel free to comment.  (Remember you can only check out my form not me, although I know I am one hot grandma!)

Splits:  9:08, 8:46, 8:35, 8:51, 8:49, 8:32, 8:39, 8:40, 8:37, 8:35, 8:42, 8:59, 8:44, 8:47, 8:50, 12:30 (walked big hill mile home)