Today was an odd day. It started off at 2:00 am when my kiddo woke up telling me he was hungry. 2 nutrigrain bars and 1 applesauce packet later, he was back asleep. After that, I never seemed to fall back asleep. Made it to the gym for a speed workout. I felt like nothing could go right. Every treadmill I got on was busted. When I finally did find a keeper, I went to drag the fan across the room to blow on me during my sweatfest. I go to plug in the fan and its also busted. Drag it to a different outlet, still busted. (do we see a theme developing?) Find a different fan, drag it over, plug it in,....busted. Stupid! I'll just live in my sweat for the next hour. 2 warm up miles and I start my 2 fast miles, with .4 to go of the first set of fast miles...the treadmill suddenly stops...busted. Oh for pete's sake. I move to another treadmill and start the next round of fast miles. I was planning on doing 2 rounds of a descending ladder but I couldn't hack it. I don't know if I just wasn't mentally there or my body really needed a break. Sometimes its hard to tell the difference between being mentally weak (because I DO think my head holds me back sometimes) and listening to my body. Such a fine line.... So here's what the workout ended up being. About 1/2 mile recovery jog in between each fast mile set: 2 miles warm up, 1.6 (this is when the treadmill broke) miles fast (6:37 min/miles), 1 mile (6:18), 1/2 mile (3:03), 1/4 mile (1:27), 2 miles (6:36), 1 mile (6:15), started the 1/2 mile and got .1 mile in and couldn't do it...I was spent. Again, I don't know if it was mental weakness or being smart and listening to my body. And that is a long entry.
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