I love burpees

zumba a.m. - great class!!!!

5 miles in perfect temps - tried out the new altras, and can't say that i love them.  i felt so slow in them dang it.  They felt bulky.

I needed a confidence booster this day since my marathon miles on sat were not what i wanted.  I guess i'll see next week if this run was a bad idea.  It helped my mental strength for sure! 

I ran to the top of the highway, and then did 5 tempo miles at 10k pace down to cholla creek.  I slowly jogged home to make it 10 miles.  I was pretty happy with my mile pace, even with some uphills mixed in. - averaged a 6:06 The pace was definitely pushing me, but it was do-able.

Miles were 1 - 5:57, 2- 5:54, 3- 6:10, 4 - 6:22, 5 -5:58

My legs weren't too tired by the end, and am hoping this will mean great things for my marathon next week!

rested today

it feels so weird to only run 4 miles, but that's what's on the schedule.  why is it so hard to do less?

Today was supposed to be 4 marathon pace miles, but it really didn't go as planned.   My legs felt heavy after my mile warm -up, and didn't improve as i tried to speed up the pace.  I think i'm tired from tues run...dang it. i hope i didn't overdo it.  First mile was 6:40, 2nd 6:58 (and it felt way toooo hard).  So i decided to cut it short and just do some slow miles in.

  Also found out that my Grandpa passed away today - I'm glad that he is out of pain.  Time to head to Idaho.  The forced rest will do me some good too. 

I loved my chance to run in the cool Idaho mountain air today!  It was so beautiful and perfect.  I ran up a canyon, and then back down - legs still not great but ok.  averaged 7:50 overall, but also do a good amount of climbing.  Hopefully I get some high elevation training while i'm up here.