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Ashley and Tim couldn't run this morning. I was going to run by myself but I decided to sleep in. 10 hours of sleep! It was just what I needed. Legs felt so fresh after all that sleep.

I thought I'd try to run in the evening instead, but it was 85 degrees at 5pm and I didn't feel like it... lazy!

6.2 miles at 4:45 am. Weather=63F, 45% humidity, 41 dew point, 4mph wind, dark.

mile 1- 9:30

mile 2- 8:40

mile 3- 8:24

mile 4- 8:07

mile 5- 8:17

mile 6- 9:26

Ran 1 mile to corner to meet Ashley and Tim. We ran miles 2-5 together. Then ran 1 mile home.

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Ran 5 miles at 10:30 am.  Weather= 77F, sunny

Ran 1 mile warm-up = 7:49, then walked for about 1/4 mile

mile 2= 7:05, then walked/jogged slow for 1/4 mile

mile 3=7:13, then walked very slow and drank water for 1/4 mile (getting kinda hot!)

mile 4=7:02, then walked briefly

mile 5 cool down=9:17

The coach at my running store gave me a schedule for 3:25 marathon.  Today's workout was supposed to be 8 miles total with 3 of those being a tempo at 7:07/m.  My sister watched my boys so I could go to the park by her house and run. 

So I started running the 7:07 pace and decided that this speed was not "comfortably hard" tempo pace for me when it's sunny and almost 80 degrees outside.  It felt more like mile repeat pace.  So I figured I could do one of two things: I could do the 3 miles without stopping at maybe 7:25/m (more tempo pace in this heat) or do 3 one mile repeats at 7:07/m instead.  I opted for the later.  I think I'm just going to have to work my way up to running the tempos at this speed. 

Slightly disappointed but determined to do better next time.

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I only got 4 hours of sleep last night. I went to bed at 9:30pm. My 18 month old, Ryan, woke up at 1:30am crying. I changed his diaper and put him back to sleep. He woke up at 2:00am crying. I didn't even feel like I fell asleep yet from the last time. So I give him tylenol and put him back to sleep. Next 2:30am crying. I check his diaper but he is just wide awake. Ready to be up for the day. I think this child is ready to give up naps during the day!

So at this point I figure the only thing left to do is let him cry it out. It feels mean, but he's got to learn to put himself to sleep. So I turn off the baby monitor and go back to bed. However, the screaming is so loud I can't sleep and I know that it's only a matter of time before my 4 year old, Jake, is woken up by all this too. My husband, of course, could sleep through a hurricane so he's unaffected.

Nonetheless, I wake up my husband and ask him to carry Jake into our bed so I can set up a loud fan and the three of us can sleep without hearing 18 month old crying it out. Husband is angry to be woken up so before he moves Jake, he goes into Ryan's room and yells at him! OMG! I was so mad!! Now the poor baby is scared to death! This is not what I had in mind. Now I'm up comforting screaming scared baby.

I finally laid down at 3:30am but I knew my alarm was going off at 4:15 so my mind wouldn't stop thinking and let me sleep. I was like, "Quick! Fall asleep so you can get 45 minutes of sleep!" But the pressure of it all prevented it.

So I have essentially been awake since 1:30am. This is going to be a long day! I'm supposed to go over to my sister's house today so she can babysit for me and I can do a tempo run at 9:00am. Then to pay her back for all this babysitting these last few weeks, I'm supposed to babysit her 4 year old until 3pm. I hope I can get some sleep at some point because tomorrow at 4:45am we're running 12 miles.

For the last 2-3 months the majority of my nights involve me waking up to comfort Ryan at least three times a night. We have gotten into a horrible routine with this. I've got two strategies I'm going to implement: one, I'm going to have to cut out his daytime naps and two, he's just got to cry it out and learn to put himself back to sleep. I need a loud fan for every room though so everyone else can sleep while we're doing this.

12.3 miles at 4:45am. Weather= 64F, 60% humidity, 50 dew point, 1 mph wind, dark. Average pace=8:36/m.

mile 1- 9:31

mile 2- 8:36

mile 3- 8:46

mile 4- 8:16

mile 5- 8:58

mile 6- 8:22

mile 7- 8:23

mile 8- 8:49

mile 9- 8:07

mile 10- 8:28

mile 11- 8:31

mile 11.3- 7:39

mile 12.3- 9:29

Ran 1 mile to corner to meet Ash and Tim. We went did some hilly loops in our neighborhood. The fist loop was 4.3 miles. We charged the hills so the miles with the biggest hills were actually the fastest miles. Second loop was 3.2 miles. Ashley left after the second one because she's still easing back into running after taking time off for injury. Tim and I did third loop which was 3.7 miles. We charged the final hill and ended at the corner at 11.3 miles total for the run. I reset the lap button at this point because I wanted to record what we did the final hill at: 7:39 pace. Not bad for at least 2% grade hill. Ran final 1 mile cool down home.

Tomorrow I'm sleeping in but later in the day we're doing track. Supposed to do a 1 mile time trial. It'll be like 85 degrees though.

6.2 miles at 4:45am.  Weather=76F, 77% humidity, 65 dew point, 14 mph wind gusting to 25mph, dark. 

mile 1- 11:00

mile 2- 9:09

mile 3- 8:56

mile 4- 8:40

mile 5- 8:35

mile 5.4- 7:43 pace

mile 6.2- 10:30 pace

I had a hard time waking up today.  I was having the best sleep ever.  I ran 1 mile to corner to meet Tim and Ashley very slow.  Then I ran miles 2 thru 5.4 with them.  Ran home.  I charged the final hill so I hit the lap button to record my average pace for that portion. 

I told them that I felt sluggish but Tim reminded me that it was warm and very humid today so that's probably why.  I hope it's not like this tomorrow for the long run.  We're running 15 miles.  Tim is doing another race instead.  He's racing 5k's and 10k's every Saturday and then doing his long runs on Sundays.  He's winning some of the races and getting PR's.  He's hoping to sub-3:00 marathon this year.  His prior PR is 3:04 I think.

So when I got home today, I laid back down to try to nap some before the kids woke up.  However, my husband's alarm went off and then my 4 year old walked in the room saying he was hungry.  Too early!  I tried to convince him to lay down with me and sleep some more but he refused.  So my husband got him some breakfast and set him up with some cartoons.  I got about an hour nap!

I am not doing too good on running this week.  I skipped Monday and Thursday.  When I was running at 4:45 am every workday, I was feeling really run down.  I thought now that it's not 100 degrees in the afternoons, I could start doing some afternoon runs instead.  It's not working out the way I envisioned.  For one, I'm not taking advantage of the sleep in's.  I have been staying up way too late the night before I get to sleep in and thereby not getting any extra sleep.  Second, I'm apparently too lazy to run in the afternoon.  

I just wish I could get mid-day babysitting everyday.  If I could have someone come to my house from say 9am - 11 am every day, life would be perfect! 

15.4 miles at 6:30am. Weather= Cloudy, muggy and windy. 73F, 77% humidity, 65 dew point, 15mph wind gusting to 25mph, cloudy. Average pace=7:54/m.

mile 1- 8:31

mile 2- 7:54

mile 3- 7:59

mile 4- 7:55

mile 5- 8:04

mile 6- 7:55

mile 7- 7:49

mile 8- 7:57

mile 9- 7:48

mile 10- 7:31

mile 11- 7:46

mile 12- 7:21

mile 13- 7:45

mile 14- 8:04

mile 15- 8:13

mile 15.4- 7:38

All the coaches at my running store have been telling me to slow down on the long runs. They said I'm not going to get faster running my long runs too fast. So I tried to slow it down today. Actually, it wasn't that hard to slow it down because the weather was pretty yucky today.

I ran with a girl named Wendy today. We talked non-stop pretty much until mile 9. At that point I told her I had to put in my ipod and focus. I was going to try to have negative splits.

Miles 14 and 15 were directly against the wind. It was rather tough moving. I was kicking my calfs as I was running. The wind was making it tough to have good form. I decided to stop trying to go faster and just try to not injure myself with the horrible form. At one point a gust of wind almost blew me off the sidewalk.

So I didn't really overdue it today. Now I feel great! I don't even feel like I ran at all today.

There are a bunch of us (about 7-8 people) aiming for 3:20-3:30 marathons in Dec/Jan. We decided that we wanted to start a tempo group on Tuesdays. It should be alot of fun!

Texas-OU game is on now. Hook 'em Horns!!!!

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Afternoon update:

I had to log back on and say that my legs now feel like I ran 15 miles... which is to say they are rather beat up! Also, this Longhorn game is hard to watch... OU is kicking our butts! ugh!