Slow & Steady Wins the Race :-)

Ran with Anya at BPA trail.  It was COLD.  COLD COLD.  Like 33 degrees and tiny mini-snowflakes cold.  Like bitter hurts your lungs cold.  So we didn't go as far as we probably would have.  Brought Cooper. :-)

Splits: 9:16, 9:14, 9:09,

Last .8 had some walking so I'm not sure about that split.

Week Summary:

Mon - .7, Tues - 5, Wed - 2, Thurs - 3, Fri - 5, Sat - 4.3, Sun - 3.8

Total running miles: 23.8

Mandated day off from running, walked 4 miles on the TM.

Ran 3.1 miles on the TM.  Started out at 5.6 and slowly increased to 6.0. 

13 days of working out in a row!  (30 minutes of anything, including walking, counts).

Day 14 :-)

Ran 6 miles on the treadmill.  Started at 5.5, increased to 6, then did last quarter mile at 7.  

Ran 3 miles on the TM (5.7).  Felt really sluggish ugh.  Was in a rush to get it in before 10pm since I had class and then was trying to get some of my final done.  2 classes down, 1 final to go.

15. 

Ran 5 miles (probably, it was 50 minutes, I must have left my Garmin on and it died) around Lakeland Hills with Anya and Lisa.  Even though the temp said 29 I felt perfect in my millions of layers.  Lisa and I and my friend Jordanne are running a 5k tomorrow!  My first race since "the incident"! :-)  

Day 16.

Did the Christmas Rush 5k with Jordanne and Lisa this morning.  Did a warm-up and cool-down by running to and from the start line.  It was so fun and great!  It's my first race back since the fracture on April 5th, and really the first time I have even pushed myself, so its nice to see where my real fitness is at.  I can't even believe I ran it this fast, I haven't run faster than 9:30 in any of my training miles really so I was shocked to see 8's.  

The official race clock said 26:44 (there were no chips) but it took 55 seconds to cross the start line so I accounted for that.  The first third of the mile or so was SO congested with people, there were lots of walkers in front of us and it was just a wall of people not going, it was frustrating.  That part was also on a main road with just 1 lane closed so there really wasn't any option of getting around (without dying!).  I had such a great time though.  Can't wait to do another race!  Starting feeling pretty tired at around 2, like I noticed my fitness level wasn't high enough to sustain the pace.  Was able to sprint the last .2 but I doubt I could have gone much further without slowing down significantly.  Glad I chose the 5k (not the 10k).  Yay!

Splits: 8:49, 8:01, 7:54 (can you believe it!) 6:55 (for the last .16) WOW!

Average: 8:20;  Fastest: 6:23 (yeah!)

Update!  5th place in my age group!  Yippee!  I hope I get a ribbon like I did last year, I love that ribbon, its STILL on the fridge! :-)  Looks like the girl I passed in the last .01 seconds was in my age group, so its a good thing I sprinted past her at the very end. ha, I'm mean!