Boo Legs

Running=Therapy 

8.6 miles. Average pace 8:16. I wasn't planning on running this long today but I had some frustration/sadness to get out. Someone made a comment to me about my (2 year old) child yesterday at church that left me feeling so incredibly stupid, insecure about my mothering, and really small. I'm usually an easy going person but for some reason this comment hurt my feelings and affected me way more than I wanted it to. I was hurt/bugged about the comment but I was really bugged that I let it affect me so much. Needless to say after a good cry, a good nights sleep, and especially after a good run, I feel much better. I (and everyone else around me) love(s) that running does that for me.

Tempo run today. 1 mile warm up, 4 miles tempo, 1.2 mile cool down. Tempo miles went like this 7:13, 7:03, 6:55, 6:50. Does anyone else find it hard for their legs to wake up? It seems like it takes forever for my legs to get to where it feels good to run fast. That first tempo mile is always the slowest and the hardest.

I inherited a treadmill. Not a nice one but its a free one and that makes it great. I'm thinking of throwing a few afternoon runs in while the "hurricane" is sleeping in the afternoon. Anyone have any advice on this? Obviously I'm going to ease into it but for those of you who do two a day runs, here are some questions...

1. How far apart are your runs?

2. How many times a week do you do two a days?

3. Do you run twice day just on easy run days? Or do you do a faster workout in the morning followed by an easy couple of miles in the afternoon?

What's the best way to do this? I'll take all the advice you've got, I'm just trying to switch it up a little and slowly increase my weekly mileage.... 

Afternoon run 2.5 miles on the ghetto fabulous free treadmill.

1 mile, Spinning class, 2.5 miles after. Done and done.

I wasn't planning to cross train today, but that's how it happened. I was a chatty cathy with a friend on the elliptical and a 10 minute warm up turned into 45 mins. I ran 3 easy miles on the treadmill after.

I did a copycat workout today. I've seen a few of you (Rachelle, Julie, Kelli) do this workout and tried it today. 10 minute warm up, 35 mins of 1 min on, 1 min off alternating between about a 6:15-30 min/mile, and 9:00 min/mile, 5 min cool down. Average pace 7:45. It was a good mix of speed and recovery, switching it up so often certainly made the time go by fast. This is why I'm loving this blog, you get great workout ideas and advice...so, thanks everyone!

Afternoon nap= 2 super easy miles on the treadmill. My legs were feeling tired today. 

10.55 miles. Average pace 8:30. Nice morning, I'm jealous of everyone running races today. It was a great morning.