Slow & Steady Wins the Race :-)

43 F.  Ran 5 miles with Lisa today at BPA trail, and it felt GREAT.  So happy to be out there.  And it was very very hilly, and we both did great, ran the whole time without walking any of the hills.  Just a tiny sprinkle, it started raining on my drive home so we got done just in time.

Splits: 10:22, 9:36, 9:50, 10:15, 10:07

Average: 10:02

Walking .4 mile cool-down.  The brace is great, but I have to figure out something about chafing.  Even over the sock, today it rubbed my heel raw.  Maybe I'm tying it too tight?  Or need something else (like lyrcra based?) underneath it?

3 miles on the TM, at around 5.6 (10:42).  .25 warm-up and .75 cool-down for a total of 4, while watching the Biggest Loser. I must say I think this is the worst season yet, I don't like ANY of the people on there!  Tonight was ridiculous.

In a separate note, I must first say how incredibly happy I am to be running again.  Soooo happy. But, now on to complaining :-) I really really really hate the treadmill.  It makes running feel like torture, while running outside is the most wonderful thing ever. The pace is either uncomfortably slow or uncomfortably fast, even at 10:42 miles.  BUT I DO LOVE RUNNING!

PS I can't WAIT until next Tuesday - LOOSSTTTT!!!!

Went to the park and ran 2 miles on the track with Justin, then played some tennis (30 minutes?).  I am a little bit better, but still sooo bad and slow at all the sprinting.

The run was great though, Justin was fast (he's actually been running a lot lately), so I struggled to keep up with him the first mile, and the second mile I ran pretty hard (for me).

Splits: 8:54, 8:21

Time: 17:14, Average: 8:37

45 minutes playing tennis with Justin.  My wrist was tired immediately, need to take tomorrow off from tennis.  That and the tendon on the inside of my elbow is sooo sore.  But feeling better!  Plus I'm getting my racket restrung and I found a team to be on!  

Got home right at 5 and it was still a little light out so I chanced it for a run with Cooper around the neighborhood.  Seemed like it was barely barely sprinkling, and I was hot in my rain jacket and regretting it, but when I got back both my hat and jacket were completely drenched so guess its good I wore them.  Was dark dark at 3.5 but finished to 4, just sticking in the culdesacs around my house.

Splits: 10:07, 10:11, 9:51, 9:55

Average: 10:04

30 minutes of Your Shape.  Was actually a surprisingly good workout (said I burned 308 calories but that seems like too much), but it was obnoxiously annoying saying I was doing it wrong the whole time even though I wasn't!  It said I only did 60% of it right or gave 60% effort or something, which made me mad, and the constant "watch your arms" "watch your legs" drove me crazy, I need to figure out if I can change the settings or I'll never do it again. It probably didn't help that Cooper was running around in front of the camera the whole time!