Slow & Steady Wins the Race :-)

A million laps around the dog park, probably 6 laps? Pretty repetitive. Took a gu around 7 which seemed to help a lot. Also had a water/gatorade mix I took with me and planted, wearing that hydration belt when the bottle is full just feels SO uncomfortable.

Splits: 9:41, 9:26, 9:16, 9:10, 9:11, 9:20, 9:12, 9:13, 9:17, 9:09, 9:20, 9:11

Total Time: 1:51:32, Average: 9:17

To run the half marathon in less than 2 hours I need to run splits less than 9:10.

Looks a lot better than it really is.  Got up early to worked out - was feeling soooo stiff and exhausted, so walked the first mile and then only had time for 2 more running.  

Then got home from work, had a TON of homework to do (though I did finish my first final, yippeee!), when I was finally done it was almost 10pm so I walked 4 miles on the TM while I watched the end of Biggest Loser & Law & Order SVU.  Yup, productive tv watching.

Yep, only ran 2 of those miles today.  I suuuuckkk.

Have decided that I am a major slacker when it comes to revving up my workouts.  I do the same run, same speed, on every single run, no matter the mileage.  It is NOT good.  I've decided i MAJORLY need to focus on doing one speed workout a week, and ideally also either a tempo or hills workout a week.  But I'll focus on speed workouts for now, gotta work into this idea gradually.

So, today I did 3 miles on the treadmill at 6.5, then the next 2 miles I alternated 1 mile at 8.0 (7:30) and 1 mile at 6.7 (8:57).  I did this for 1.5 miles, or 6 reps of this, then on the 7th rep I ran the last half mile .5 at 8.0.  Felt good afterwards, and proud for actually doing something.

Then went and did 90 mins of hot power yoga.  Feeling gooooood today.  Will be SO sore tomorrow.

4 miles on the TM.  First one at 6.5 (9:13), next 3 at 6.8 (8:48).  Let's see if I can make 6.8 the new 6.7!

Then 60 minutes of hot power yoga.

Then some delicious Thai food. Yum.

Got up and ughhhh, rainy outside.  Why is it always nice on the weekdays and the weekends are crappy?  Seriously, yesterday was a BEAUTIFUL day, with visions of long runs outside and golfing dancing in my head.  Then I wake to ugly blah rainyness.  So to the treadmill I went.

After 3 miles thought that it had stopped and I could head outside, I was wrong.  I'm so glad I didn't do it outside, I probably would have been freezing cold and sick.  

Soo, 13 whole miles on the TM, fuuuun.  At 6.5 (9:13), last .25 at 7.0 (8:34). Took 2 hours even (I think, the TM shut down randomly at 100 minutes, apparently its the max so I wasn't positive of my mileage at that point), then walked 5 minutes.  Watched Milk, pretty inspiring!