Running For Trevor

6.5 mi santaquin orchard loop. Way overdressed this morning, it was warm!

Pm: 20 min jogging at the indoor track with the pups. 40 min walking.

20 min strength training

8.5 on the treadmill.  I feel like I raced over the weekend or something, major heavy leg syndrome.  Ran pretty slow but it felt hard.  haha just one of those days.  Did about a half mi total worth of strides towards the end at 10mph. 

4 miles easy outside.  7:35 pace.  So so very sunny and nice out. :)

Orchard loop with Jen. 3.5 mile unplanned tempo, a little icy in spots but we were careful. Eased into it with the first .5 6:30 pace. Then 6:16, 6:10, 6:12. Overall pace for the run was 6:58 which was pretty speedy considering the first mile was 8:02. The last tempo mile nearly killed me (very gradual uphill) but I'm happy we decided to do the workout. Thank goodness I have Jen to push me. I definitely earned myself some very easy jogging tomorrow!

20 minutes weights & stretching at home.

30 min strength training - planks, pushups, myrtle, lunges & squats

8 mi recovery on the treadmill, 2% incline 8:15 pace.  A few faster strides towards the end but they felt a little forced so I didn't push it.  My legs really needed an easier day.

Hilly route in Salem with Jen easy, 7:36 pace.

6 min 30 seconds on the elliptical to catch the traffic & weather reports.  Cross-training....booyah!

PM:  3.5 easy 8 min pace

Sataquin Orchard loop with Jen, 7:23 pace.  We were going to do a workout but I have a cold & Jen was well cold (we were both underdressed after the heat wave of yesterday) and we are both just lazy. 

Probably a good thing we scratched the workout because rumor has it I'm going to be trying to keep up with a bunch of speed demons tomorrow morning. :-)

Multi city Long run with JulieC starting at her house in pg. First 10 miles easy but hilly, 8:12 pace. Lots of day dreaming about when we ran this loop over the Summer......ahhh those were the days! Then I started a tempo 6:30, 6:10, 6:10, 6:03, 6:04. Short stop after mi 2 to make sure I was going the right way & the last mile was quite aided. That said going fast felt really good and fairly comfortable.

I felt great during the run but afterwards started getting dizzy and nurse Julie had to revive me and bring me back to life with her magical orange juice. I've never been the brightest crayon in the box but doing this run with no fluids knowing my history of dehydration & low blood sugar was really stupid. Lesson learned! Truth be told I haven't drank or taken in fuel at all this winter. My hands just don't work in the winter and I don't get thirsty. Hopefully my lack of practice doesn't effect me too much in Phoenix.