Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

Wow!  Spring fever has officially hit!  What a nice day!  Almost too hot for my hill repeats.  I probably could have used a little drink of water in there.  During the winter I can do a 6 mile run easily without water.  Today I was grateful to get home to a big drink!

Two mile warm up at 9:13. Then 8 x 1 minute hill repeats.  I wasn't sure what the pace was suppose to be so I just did them at whatever I felt like I could keep for 8 times.  They ranged from 8:17 to 8:43.  Cool down with a little over 2 miles back home. 

No speed work, no hills, no fancy smancy stuff.  Just an easy 4 miler with my doggie woggie.  :)

I have to add a tally mark to the left side of the chalkboard for today.  For further explaination of the chalkboard and tally marks go to http://pthomas.fastrunningblog.com/  and while you are there you can wish him a happy 50th birthday!  He's a great guy with a lot of great wisdom and inspiration packed in that 50 year old body of his!

Anyway, mentally I wasn't ready to do today's workout.  Warm up...4 X 1mile repeats at 7:45-8:15 with a 1 minute jog/rest between....cool down.  I had decided to just get out and run and not worry about a certain workout.  But I didn't let my mind and the wind win today!  I did a mile and a half warm up and then started my miles right smack into the wind!  Miles 1 and 3 were into the wind while miles 2 and 4 the wind was at my back. 

• 8:00
• 7:48
• 8:01 
• 7:37

And so I did it...and now I have my first tally marks on the left side of my new imaginary chalkboard.  I think I'll  use this chalkboard a lot...silly, but effective. 

Tom wanted to go do the UV Marathon course this morning, so I met up with the SF crowd without him. 

It was a very nice morning.  We were all over dressed and had to stash our jackets for pick up on the way home.    The guys kept me going at about an 8:50 pace.   It was fun to get my longest run of 2010 in. 

I went to my 2 daughter's play, The Wizzard of Oz.  I thought I might get too tired after the run and fall asleep, but they kept me entertained and awake.  Theater is done for another year...no more curling 2 girl's head's of hair twice a day!  Yeah!