Stacy's Blog

Ron left for Atlanta this morning. Tara is on her way home for the summer. I decided to stay close to home and I want to do all of my long runs on pavement from now until Oct. So that leaves 2 options. The bike path or the truck route. I chose the bike path. What started out as a breezy, misty, chilly run, ended as a driving rain, windy, cold run. I think I'll warm up by July.... maybe.

Wow, what a night for running! The sun was brilliant as it set, the dirt is so black and the grass and trees are so green after the rain yesterday. AND there was not so much as a leaf moving. Quite a rare event for North Dakota. I think maybe we have 2 nights a year as perfect as this one. Awesome! Legs felt good. Bayly was in heaven. She hasn't been out for a run for a week. Thoughts and prayers to everyone in Mississippi, and Tennessee.

Tempo run. 

1 mile warm up, 4 miles at 8:35 pace, 1 mile cool down. Weather has turned really ugly again. What happened to April? :( 

Wind and rain, wind and rain. I am starting to see a trend. I don't mind wind most of the time, and rain is fine. Put the 2 together and it is ugly. 

So it was a mini speed workout on the dreaded treadmill.

Warm up

1 mile @ 8:20 pace, bumped it up to 8:00. Short recovery

2 mile @ 8:00, short recovery

3 mile started @ 8:00 bumped it up to 7:30 pace. 'bout died, but I did it! :) Not bad for an old person.

Slow and easy today. My legs were tired. Lots of fresh water in the ditches. Bayly was enjoying every minute. Depending on where she decides to soak herself, she either comes home as a "mud puppy" or "swamp thing".