Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

EZ 7 @ 8:26 AP.

Today my biggest little girl turned 4!  We ate a cupcake together on Skype, then of course it dropped my call right as I was about to see her get her big-girl bike.  But I called back and got to see her ride it around the garden room.  Happy Birthday Elle!

For my TM run, kept it easy - 8:28 AP.

2 @ 8:34, then 7 x 400 (5% incline, 8:00 pace) with a half mile rest inbetween @ 8:34.  Good hill workout there.  I'm a fan of the long rest for hills since I suck at doing them right now.

All the TMs here shut off after 1 hour as they do at most gyms.  That's ok for 7 miles but, for me, not ok for 8.  So, I went online and found the manual for the one I run on, and figured out the convoluted way to hack into the manager's configuration screen.  From there, I was able to increase the max-time setting so that I could run 8 miles at once next week without it shutting down.  I feel pretty good about my first computer hack job.

Warmup 3.5 @ 8:34 AP

Tempo 3.5 @ 7:19 AP

Started the tempo at 7:30 and slowly bumped it up, doing the last mile in 6:57.  AP for the run was 7:57.

I also got a couple pairs of shoes in the mail yesterday - my favorite asics 1140s that were 2 for $100 because they're outdated, I guess.  I'll break the first pair in tomorrow.

EZ 7 @ 8:30 avg.  87 degrees inside the stupid gym and all the TMs with the fan pointing at them were taken.  Lungs felt like they were working way to hard as well, for the speeds I was going.  I tried running with no boxers today; don't worry the PT shorts have a liner, so really I was doing the normal thing.  Anyway, I didn't like it because the shorts got completely saturated and were dripping on my legs as I hit the last couple miles.  I was leaving a trail of sweat dots on the gym floor as I left.  Plus I had 1 little bean burrito at lunch today and it was quite the troublemaker.  People kept using the TMs next to me so I didn't really want to let 'em fly - I usually do if there is a 1-TM buffer between me and the next person.  Kind of had one annoying thing after another today.  But no matter, got in the miles which is all I care about right now.

1 @ 8:34

5 @ 7:50  (MGP - 2 @ 7.6, 3 @ 7.7)

1 @ 7:03

Average pace was 7:50 for all 7.  The MGP miles were harder than I would've liked but I have almost 6 months to work on that I guess.  I caught a bit of a second wind in mile 6 so I finished a little faster again.