Bring on the challenge!

Did my sprints on the treadmill this morning.  Legs are still a little sore from Saturday, but nothing I can't handle.  Felt good to work them out some more.  The weather is starting to get a bit better, hoping to start running outside more and adding hills to the workouts.  

3 easy miles on the treadmill this morning.  Poor Hubby.  He had to run outside this morning in the 6+ inches of fresh snow :(  Not fun.  He said it was VERY slow going.  

After that, it was on to Jillian.  Some of the boys woke up early this morning and came down to join me for part of it :)  Always fun to do Jillian with the kiddos :) 

Ran for just over an hour on the treadmill this morning doing my tempo workout.  Started out the same, 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, for 5 minutes each, twice.  Then, on the 3rd time of 6.0 I started to feel it wasn't fast enough :)  Funny how that happens when you've been running faster.  I think of the days I do an easy run at 6.0 and it seems plenty fast. . . ;)  So, I only did 4 minutes of it that time, then 5 1/2 minutes each of 6.5 and 7.0.  On the last round I did 3 minutes of 6.0, 6 minutes of 6.5, and 5 1/2 minutes of 7.0, then I upped it to a 10.0 for the last 30 seconds.  Dang, that's fast!  Glad it was only 30 seconds!  But, I finished  and felt great!

Did an easy jog on the treadmill this morning.  Really dragging today.  Don't know if I'm still recovering from the tempo workout from yesterday or what.  Remember how I said 6.0 was feeling slow yesterday?  Well, it was plenty fast this morning ;)  Followed up the run with level 2 of Jillian again.  Even that was kicking my butt this morning.  Might need a nap today. . .

Ah, the last day before daylight savings time.  Grrr...  really enjoyed leaving at 6:30 this morning to light skies.  

Run was good but I was tired by mile 10.  Yes, mile 10.  I keep thinking to myself, you have a marathon in another 5 weeks!  I really hate training for a marathon over the winter months.  Hoping the marathon will not be a terrible thing because of this.  Next week I think we will shoot for another 15, at least.  That should be our last really long run before the marathon.  

On a side note, I tried the RockIt Fuel stuff we'd been given in goody bags last summer at some races.  NASTY!!!  I could only down a bit of the stuff and no more.  But, I guess some sugar did get into me cuz it helped some :)  

Legs are tired, glad to have a break tomorrow before sprints on Monday. . .