Let's do this!

ran 4.25.  1 mile in I saw a kitten all tied up and on the road with it's bowels hanging out  from being split up the middle.  I feel traumatized. Poor little kitten. Some screwed up persons did that on purpose.

Weights, elliptical hell for 58 min, then 4.75 running outside. 

I'm not done for the day. Tempo run tonight on the JRP. 

4.5 on the JRP in the pm -tempo run with Walter. Pukealicious

Elliptical hell for 59 minutes....I couldn't handle one more minute on that thing.

Ran 4.25

Long run tomorrow.

Long run alone today. I wasn't sure how far I was going to go. The first 3 miles it was dark so I wore my headlamp. I dropped the lamp on my lawn after the first loop. 2nd loop I picked up the speed a little more. After the 2nd loop I was 7.2 miles in. I stopped at my house for 2 minutes. Needed a drink, a gel chew with caffeine, and 1 little powerbar cookie chew. Off again for 3 more loops of 3.5 miles each. I saw Merri and Susan at 8.40, then at 10.5 I saw McKenzie and Aubrey. Fun.

around miles 9-18 I really picked up the pace. I'll post splits. The avg pace for all 17.75 was a 7:35. Not lightening fast but pretty good for a long training run.

Splits: 8:21,7:49,7:37,7:49,7:53,7:32,7:28, 7:43,7:26,7:13,7:15,7:31,7:32,7:32,7:31,7:29,7:35,5:42

gym at 5:45 so I could stand around and talk whilst pretending to lift weights. I feel like a failure.

Came home and ran 8 miles. Pretty outside today. 7:35 avg pace.

3 miles, and 48 min elliptical. Weights.

8th female, 4th in age group 30-34, 37th overall of male & female.

My body must love a 20 minute 5k time. :)  I forgot how hard this course it. I also forgot how many elite's show up for this. 

Not much to talk about except that I was able to meet Andrea at the start. She's a cute gal. The cannon shot is the worst. It is SO loud! Heart thumping, my goodness.

I know my fitness is there, I was not winded. I know my body does not like to run up steep hills, something I've known for a long long time I need to work on it. But considering how hard this 5k course is, I cannot whine about the time I did. I ran it to help gain some speed before SGM. I need to find a few others as well to run.

Splits: 6:07, 6:17, 6:47 -the hill in the last mile is long and it killed me. But I held my 8th position all through it so I'm okay with it. I missed Allie and fiddy today though :(  Oh - also, my Garmin showed the race distance was a little over.

3.1  cool down run