In the interest of time I opted to do my workout alone in my neighborhood this morning. The kids had a party to get to by 10 a.m. and with picking up and dropping off the babysitter, showering, eating, dressing kids ect. ect. I didn't have time to commute to Boulder and back. Even without commuting to North Boulder to run with my team we were still late to the party. It was a fun party at a roller skating rink. I pretty much just slapped some skates on my 4yo and 6yo and let 'em have at it. I couldn't help much because my 2yo was being needy, so we watched as they held on to the wall and skate walked around the perimeter of the rink. Haha. So for my workout I did a 3 mile warm-up, stretching, strides 4X45 seconds in 5:30 pace with 45 second jog between each 2 minute jog 5 X Mile with 90 seconds jog between each (Coach had put on the schedule to do 5 X 6 minutes at marathon/half marathon effort with 2 minutes jog between each. I altered it a little because 5 X Mile sounded more fun; that way I would be rewarded with a little shorter interval if I pushed the pace faster.) My mile splits were 6:05, 5:43, 6:05, 5:44, 5:35. There were rolling hills throughout and a bit of headwind (thus the disparity paces on each one). So I guess I did two of them at marathon pace and the other three closer to half marathon pace. Can't complain. And the rolling hills throughout are very similar to how the Baltimore course will be. The weather was awesome this morning. About 60 degrees and sunny. Perfect. Its starting to feel a little bit fall-ish which makes me happy since Fall is by far my favorite season. If it were my choice I'd pick Fall for 9 months of the year and then just spend a month each in the other three seasons. The best news of the day though is that MY STOMACH FELT GOOD TODAY!!!!! FINALLY! After an entire week of tummy issues, I think I'm finally getting over it. Wahoo!
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