Addicted to Running

A little sore from pushing myself on saturday. I was going to run a little more because of all the birthday cake and ice cream I ate last night but my time was slow and I had to get home to get my daughter ready for school. I might run a couple more miles this evening.

My husband had an early morning meeting so I had to run on the treadmill this morning. Did a 2.50 mile warm up. Then ran 4 mile tempo finished up with a 1.25 cool down.

Rode my stationary bike for 50 minutes then did arm, back, leg weights. It was such a nice morning I was tempted to run but I am going to do intervals tomorrow and I have learned from experience that I need to give my legs a rest. I am envious of everyone that can run everyday but my right hip needs a break. Although there are great benefits to cross training. I have increased my running time by strength training and riding the bike hard. And you know what they say about women over 30 and losing muscle mass. There was a great article in Runners World about running through the ages.

I may be riding the bike again tonight to work off some cheesecake. My husband and a couple friends (one used to live in New York City) got together and ordered a 10lb cheesecake from a New York City deli monday afternoon. Then it was shipped fed ex. overnight. I had some last night. OH my gosh!! Never have you tasted such fantastic cheesecake. That will be my new reward for interval training tomorrow.

Have a great day!! Happy running.

Had to get up extra early because of Valentines Day. I didn't want to drive to the track so I did my interval training on my treadmill. Pushed myself a little harder. Did 7 800's @ 6:56 pace with a 8:20 rest lap in between. It felt good but was tired at the end of the run. No time to rest because I had a million things to get done before I had to go to school and do a Valentine party for my daughters kindergarten class.

We took the girls to see Alvin and the chipmunks after school then to dinner at Cafe Rio.

I hope everyone had a great Valentines Day.

Cross Training Day!! Rode bike for an hour while I watched "Return to Me" on the t.v. Great movie. Then did weights. Can't wait for the long run tomorrow. :-) One month til the Spectrum 10K

Tonight is our Valentines date. We are going to have a relaxing massage & dinner.

Have a great day!

I got up and went to Mike's house and rode up with the running group. Jody and I stuck together. It was a nice change from the same route that I usually do but I didn't like the cars although there weren't to many. Jody and I had a fairly good pace. We had several 7:30 miles. We thought the hills were going to kill us but when we got to the top we looked back and said "They weren't too bad." Thanks Jody for running with me and pushing me. I was ready to take a short cut along pioneer parkway but we didn't. It was a great morning for running. The rest of saturday was crazy so I am typing this on Sunday. My calves and quads were a little sore this morning. I haven't run this far since October. We'll have to do it again Jody.