Bring on the challenge!

Well, today was supposed to have been the track workout.  And, of course, I was wide awake and ready to go at 4:30 a.m.  That's when we heard the thunder.  We looked out the window and there were lightning flashes everywhere.  A quick text to our pals we run with on Monday's confirmed that the track run was off this morning, due to the weather.  Bummer.  

It has been raining ever since.  Sat in the car drop off line for the kiddos for 40 minutes this morning.  Nothing to do but laugh about it.  It's crazy rain!  Puddles everywhere!

Came home and decided to do Jillian.  It's days like this that I wish I still had a treadmill.  I loved my sprint workouts on that thing.  But, Jillian is great, too.  

Hoping the weather will cooperated so I can run tomorrow. . . 

Tempo run this morning.  With a cold wind!!  Frustrated to be running with boys all the time.  I need someone who is more my pace.  Even on these tempo runs, I am the tail end.   I wasn't struggling today, either, actually felt pretty good, but the boys just seem to be getting faster.  Wish my legs were longer. . . 

Marathon is about 7 weeks away.  Hoping I'll be ready by then. . . 

12 miles on this COLD morning!!  Seriously, it was 30 degrees, and we were all bundled up.  I HATE that!!  Bring back my warm weather!

The run was actually pretty good, had to stop for an emergency potty break at mile 9 1/2 (thank you for having a park on our route!!), and the last 2 miles got a little hard, because we were out of energy.  Stopped and walked at mile 11 and ate some granola bar, but I think it was too little too late.  Gotta plan out our eating while we run.

Other than that, I was actually surprised that it went so well.  Training hasn't been as great as I thought, but I'm glad to see that we did okay.  About 7 weeks till the marathon, so we really need to crank this up.  Hopefully, the miles will be good next week.