Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

It took me a while to talk myself into getting out the door today.  Does that ever happen to anyone else?  The wind is a bit chilly, but I warmed up good after the first mile and stashed my jacket, hat and gloves to pick up on the way back. 

Today on the agenda was a 12321.  Each number is minutes with a .25 recovery jog between.  Here's how they went.

1 min: 7:24 pace

2 min: 7:25

3 min: 7:21

2 min: 7:24

1 min: 6:56

Goal today was to get between 6 and 7 miles with six 10 second hill sprints.  I got the hill sprints in and ran 6.5, which seems to be between 6 and 7 miles.  So mission accomplished!  Beautiful sunshine out today!  I should have had shorts and short sleeves.  I always let the cool feel when I first step out fool me.  I need to remember that it's ok to feel a bit chilly on that 1st mile.

Ave. pace 9:14

When I looked at my calendar to see what my plan for mileage was today I saw 6-7.  I wasn't too excited about getting out in the rain/snow for that.  Tom called from work to have me help get him motivated to get outside and get his run instead of heading into the gym for the TM.  I'm not sure I gave him much motivation, but after hanging up and looking at my calendar again I realized the 6-7 is what time Tom and Tia have their daddy/daughter date tonight....I only had 5 miles on my agenda!  So I figured I may as well just get er done!  I headed straight uphill and into the wind and snow/rain for the first 2.25 miles.  It was mostly down hill from there.  I was suppose to do 1 mile warm up and then 4 at 8:30.  I changed that up a bit.  I did 2 miles warm up (9:30) then (8:17) (8:12) (8:10).

My observation of the past few days is that many people who smoke and drink, (and not just beer drinkers, soda drinkers too), think it is also their right to throw their cigarette boxes, bottles, cups, cans, straws and lighters out the car window where ever they are.  It makes me sad.  : (

Ran today with my 2 BRBs, (best running buddies)!  My hubby and the sunshine!  Yeah!  Ave. pace 8:56

I'm on my way to read a book to our 3rd grader's class.  I'm going to read Bamboozled.  Fun book if you are looking for a cute picture book to read with your kids!  Have a great day! 

It's so nice having a built in running buddy!  Tom and I decided to just wake up whenever.  I woke up at 6:30 and he had been awake for about 20 minutes.  We slept through the 6:00 meeting point and the 6:30 meeting point, which was fine by me!  We got out the door around 7:00. 

Nasty old wind to join us on the long run today.  We went down through the Leland/softball loop.   Going down wasn't so bad, but heading back up into the riverbottoms and up into SF I was not feeling the love for the wind.  I was glad I wasn't doing this one alone!  I got to come home but Tom still had 5 more to go to get his miles.  I'm sure he will be happy to be done soon too. 

Our son, Jansen,  and his city league basketball team is playing for the championship today.  The game the other day to get them to this point was quite intense.  We'll see how this one goes today. 

Ave pace 9:30  Overall time 1:54:02