Just one race at a time

Rest Day

6X400 meter repeats.  Last time I did these the 7:30 speed seemed to easy.  Someone suggested I tried raising my incline to 1% and then try them.  I did and they were much harder.  I did all six at 7:30 speed with 100 meter walk in between.

Lifted for ham, glute and calf

Ran 4 miles today outside.  splits: 8:32, 8:44, 8:40, 8:31

I seem to be getting faster but the last mile was really hard to stay with the pace. I am sure that I couldn't have gone much longer at this pace.

3 miles 1% incline 9:13 pace

Lifted for ham glute and abs (very little lifting today got to the gym late)

Spin - Speed work I think I lost ten pound of sweat... oh yea girls don't sweat I "Glistened" a lot!

Ok I had somthing weird happen to me at the gym today.  I ate breakfast and went to the gym.  I started to run and I suddenly got VERY hungry not that oh I could eat hungry but the fast Sunday hungry.  I was looking for used gum hungry (not really that is gross!) Anyway I finished my run but it was much slower. I did 1.5 miles at 9:13 and then had to do the last 1.5 at 10:00.  In my gym bag I had ten raw almonds I ate them and lifted for my arms.  When I was going into spin I still felt hungry started class and about half way through the feeling went away.  Weird right!  Have any of you had this happen?

Elliptical today 6 mile 46:36 Minutes resistance 11

Lifted for legs

Yoga - today in yoga we didn't use our mats for half of the class.  Instead we each had two towels and they were placed depending on the pose either under our hands or our feet.  It is amazing how much harder a pose is when your feet or hands are sliding our from under you.  I really had you use my muscles to stay in the pose.  My teacher said this is how we should feel in the poses all the time even when we are on our mats.  She said that we ofter relax in a pose that should be killing us.  We then used our mats for the same poses and tried to get the same feeling... it was hard.  Between lifting and yoga my legs got a really great work out!

I was not sure how far I wanted to go today the schedule said to run a 5K today so 3 miles fast.  I knew I wanted to run more than 3 miles but I was not sure how much more the plan was to head out the door and see how far I could go at half marathon pace.  I used a route that is very hilly the whole way.  There are not a lot of steep hills but you are either going up or down there is not a flat area on this road.  I ended up going 5.5 miles here are my splits: 9:01, 8:35, 8:32, 8:39, 8:30 and the last half mile is listed at 4:36 (I am not sure what that means)  I felt much better at the end of this run than I did the last time I ran this speed, I hope that soon this speed will feel much more comfortable.