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Spanish Fork,UT, USA

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Jun 11, 2009

Gender:

Female

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Local Elite

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5k-   18:25

10k-   39:06

13.1-   1:25

26.2-   3:09:03 (Boston Qualified and 1st marathon)

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I'm Lily, and I love to do hard things.

 

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Thu, Jan 03, 2013
Total Distance
4.00

Since yesterdays tempo was maybe a little harsh, gotta follow the rule of for every hard day, have an easy day. So today I kept it easy, 68 minutes of elliptical hell. Easy/medium effort.

Ran 4 easy miles outside at an 8:27 pace,  wore tracks on. Freezing. Holy shizzle.

If you need a little laugh, read todays workout post here

Comments
From Jake K on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:23:23 from 155.100.226.191

Smart smart... you've got what, around 14 weeks or so until Boston? That's a lot of time... so its important the take the "easy days easy" rule seriously.

From Lily on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:27:41 from 67.199.178.95

I have a plan for all this. I got a major reminder reading this book that I need to have easy days intermixed with any hard day. I feel I have to do this to avoid getting hurt. Besides, I made a goal to run every single day of 2013, can't do that being injured! :)

From Andrea on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:28:00 from 72.37.171.52

Great workout yesterday. Hard days hard, easy days easy!

From Andrea on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:32:19 from 72.37.171.52

As I'm getting back into training, I'm planning to get on a cycle of two easy days after every hard day - plenty of time to recover after each stress and be ready for the next workout.

From Lily on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:34:21 from 67.199.178.95

Good plan Andrea. You should read this book I've been reading. It's funny but has so many good reminders!

From Rachelle on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:50:40 from 199.190.170.22

68 minutes on the elliptical sounds so ridiculously HARD in my opinion. haha you know how I loathe the elliptical. ;)

Great advice by Andrea! The harder your hard days are the slower the easy days should be.

From JulieC on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 18:26:41 from 207.108.176.238

Lily so glad you are back and energized with speed and injury-less!!! :D. Okay-- you are the elliptical queen. I just added my 8.5 minute elliptical afternoon workout to my latest entry and wonder what the heck...only 0.45 miles in that time??? I was pushing hard but really???????? I was in my clothes and high heels but I was sweating!!! am I just not doing it right???

From JulieC on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 18:27:22 from 207.108.176.238

I mean I "wasn't" pushing hard.

From JulieC on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 18:28:06 from 207.108.176.238

btw you are going to have a great Boston : D. way to be smart!!!

From I Just Run on Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:16:33 from 67.79.11.242

I'm just wondering if anyone else is having trouble getting to Lily's blog? When I click on the link I can see the blog for a second or two and then the page goes blank. Hummm

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