Mauri's Training

Not to bad today. I thought it was going to be a hard run today but felt better as time went on. Always want to make it to 8 miles.  But, Marlin was running next to me on the TM and decided to keep going. HR (152) was good overall once I got going. I should have stretched more than I did.  But, I did do a few weights.  Then went down and sat in the sauna.  The instructor from yoga comes in also after her class. I missed it today.  Another reason I ran a couple of extra miles. Hope to make it Wen. 

Intervals today.   I glad I don't dread Tue's as much as I used to.  The last week or so I've had a hard time getting my HR up into where it should be.

Ran 7x1200 w/400 recovery. 1 mile warmup. 7:53 (152) - 7:53 (155) - 7:41 (165) - 7:35 (173) - 7:30 (173) - 7:30 (175) - 7:24 (175). Finished with 2 mile cooldown between Zone 1 & 2.

Average HR for the whole run was 158.  I need to do better with getting my HR up earlier!  Hate to say it but I'm enjoying the interval work now.  When I started it was no fun at all.  I'm reading a book out of the library that was written in '79.  Pretty interesting to read what training was like back then.  Who would know running would be where it is now. 

My (younger) sister is getting to run her first marathon in SL in a couple of weeks.  Granted she's a single mom and has two girls.  But, she has not done the needed training!  My other (older) sister just ran her first half marathon. She started running alittle over a year ago.  She did great.   Time was 2:09 hrs.  I'm very proud of her! 

TM run today.  I'm not sure if I was dehydrated, but parts of the run seemed harder than it should have been. Glad to get the 8 miles.  Average HR was 153.  

Tempo run at the gym.  Better run than yesterday. HR stayed pretty low for the first couple of miles.  Ended up running at 8:34 and then 8:06 to get my HR up into Zone 3 - around 168.  I was happy about that but tired at the end.   I'm glad tomorrows Friday.  Work wasn't to hectic being end of month and having to quota's to meet.  I'll probably take part of tomorrow off since my parents are coming back from Ariz where they spent the winter.  They're flying up so I may have to pick them up at the airport.  It's going to be pretty tempting not to go back to work.  Marlin's going fishing so he won't be here in the afternoon.  Might try and run down by the river.

What a day.  I was suppost to pick up my parents at noon but their plane got delay because they had to put a new window in.  Gotta make sure the pilot can see.  They ended up sitting at the airport most of the day.  Marlin was going fishing so I still left work early because I really didn't want to be there.  To tempting to leave.  I ended up leaving and running errands and went to the gym.  It was nice getting my stuff done early!  Then went to the gym and ran 8 miles.  Didn't think I had much time after that so I went home for a few minutes and then went back into town to pick them up.  They still didn't here until around 6pm.  But, then took them home and helped get them settled.  My sister and her girls come over and we all ate dinner.  I was glad to get home at 7:30pm.

Went to the gym this afternoon after an afternoon of shopping. Met up with my sister and ran 8 miles on the TM.  It was nice running with her.  Lots of fun talking and the 8 miles went by really fast!  Good run.