14 miles & I hate golds gym.
** more added info just for Rob :) ** So the last few days I have been taking fake energy before leaving my house to run. And it has proved to be helping. Now don't worry, I don't plan to make this a long term habit, just a short term thing since my energy has been so low. I blame it on sleepless nights I am having due to kids, stress and the anxiety I seem to get this time of year. This weather blows. It gives me anxiety-which can come and go. However the silver lining is that when Spring starts coming around, it makes me so happy and I appreciate it all the more. This mornings run was very effective and yes,far. I ran 4 miles and stopped, went over to the weights and lifted for 10 minutes. Came back and ran 10 more miles with my good friend Julie. My pace varies as I do intermingle speed work into my runs a lot. So here's an idea of what I did today, and do a lot of the other days. I start off at a 8 min mile pace. I hold that for about a mile, and turn it up to a 7:50 pace. Hold that for a mile and turn it up again until I am at about a 7:40 pace for a while. Then around 30 minutes into my run, I start doing speed intervals. to a 6:15 pace for 1-1 1/2 minutes then back down to a 7:30 pace. This cycle continues for about 25 minutes. Then I take it to a 7:25 pace and hold it there for the remainder of my run. However long that may be exactly varies from day to day. I like doing this. Sometimes my body gets too use to doing this, so I have to change things. That is when I resort to eliptical hell. Which I will probably do all next week and change things up. It also gives my feet and joints a pounding break of sorts. But, I love running, in any form. I always tell people that I will run until the I am old and absolutely cannot do it anymore. I will probably enter races until that time too. :) I do work my core nearly everyday as well. Because of this, I think I have some nice cut-not perfect, but pretty darn good for a girl who's been prego 4 times. :) Happy Tuesday all.
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