Well, a couple of nice things happened today. First, I got up. Second I had a longer run with an AP under a 9mm...that hasn't happened for a LONG time. I will blame it on the 3.5 miles of downhill and trying to push tempo, but I'm still just happy to see it. Legs don't feel too trashed either. These are all good signs for how cruddy I've been feeling lately! Met the BBK's for early miles and was happy to see Cal had made it out as well. I always love those early morning runs at a nice easy pace. I had fun chatting with Dean and Kelli as well. Dean gave me some clothing advice for the tri, which I desperately need. Then we were off for the tempo - up and back on 9800S to 4800W. Nice uphill there and then you turn and get to come home downhill - something I don't get to do often when I run from home! I would've liked to have been able to keep a better pace uphill, but I need to remember baby steps...baby steps. I was able to keep up with Cal (or he was being nice and staying with me) which was also nice to not run alone, which has been the case lately at BBK's because of my lack of speed. We tacked on a little bit at the turn around to run to a drinking fountain at the park, but it made my miles nice and even returning back to the start at exactly 10, a 7 mile 'tempo'. The best thing about this run was that the last mile felt okay, not as horrible as I would've imagined it. This gives me hope that I might be able to beat my 1 month post-pregnancy time at Des News this year. With the way I've been running I really wasn't holding out much hope, but with this good sign I may just try :) Not for a PR - ha, yeah right! But I might be able to hit 47-48 minutes...we shall see. AP: 8:50 splits: 9:46, 8:53, 8:28, 9:17, 9:33, 9:21, 9:03, 8:33, 8:00, 7:30, 5:01 (last 33 feet -still love that fast short finish :) I had to miss yoga this morning, because my little 4 year old (the one that wouldn't sleep earlier in the week?) came home last night with dad and had blood coming out of his ear. Scared the crap out of me, but I guess we now know why he wasn't sleeping well. NO mention of pain at all! Just a 10 hour fever Saturday then not sleeping well. Turns out he had an ear infection so bad they can't even tell if the ear drum is ruptured because of the mess in there :( It looks as if it is, but they have to wait a week for it to clear out to see (he had tubes at 1 yr old, so it may be the tube was just pushed out). Poor guy. I seriously can NOT believe that pain tolerance...not even a mention of a hurt ear! Oh, and the other ear is infected as well, not nearly as bad, just a normal one, but still. Dang kid!! I'm sorry.
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