I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

This was the most 1/2 hearted run...cold, starting to snow, getting dark.  I cut it short.

Okay.  I did it.  I broke down and went to the gym.  We got a lot of snow today and we're supposed to get 4 more inches.  So I'm getting a membership for a month, but I forgot that I was supposed to go to the rec center to renew.  The lady was nice enough to let me in anyway.

Looks like a snow day tomorrow too.  I'm not sure how I feel about that. 

Workout:  2 miles warmup at 9:13 pace.  2 miles at 8 min. pace.  1 mile at 9:13.  2 miles at 8 min. pace.  1 cooldown at 9:13 pace.  The 8 min pace felt challenging, but sustainable.  I was, though, glad when the second set was done. 

Watched the first half of the Illini game.  Now I'm watching the second and hoping that they win...it's going to be close, whatever the outcome.

I L L I N I!

They won!  They've been having a good week.  Two ranked opponents in a row!

On the treadmill again.  I ran one mile and then I realized that I hadn't set it correctly.  So I stopped and then set it to go for one hour.  And then I was bound and determined to finish 7 miles so I didn't have to reset it.

Treadmills are annoying.  So the avg. pace was somewhere around 8:40, which is probably a bit faster than I really needed to go...

I started off on the elliptical because all the treadmills were taken.  Decided that it wasn't a bad thing, since the treadmill bothers my foot.  Did the equivalent of 3 miles on the elliptical and then 5 miles on the treadmill.  I am tired.  It was slow and easy.

I woke up a little before my alarm and turned it off.  But I'm not sure how many miles I'll do tomorrow, so I knew I couldn't afford to skip a day.  SoI guilted myself out of bed.  Gazelled 5 cross training miles.

I'm exhausted.  Running makes my cycle seriously irregular, so I may be getting my period, but I'm not sure.  I haven't had it for a while.  I hope it's on the way and not just that I'm getting sick.  I feel like I've been running myself ragged for the past 6 weeks. 

Ahhhhh.  Success. I went over to my dear friend Colleen's house and earlier in the week when we were planning, she suggested that we go to her gym together.  Well, the thought of another run on the treadmill made me sick, so I packed indoor and outdoor stuff.

When we got around to the running part of our day, I successfully convinced her and her crazy sister Mo to run outside.  Success #1.  I had to lend her sister one of my shirts, but it wasn't ridiculously cold (it was probably near 30).

Then I convinced Mo that she could do 6 miles.  She is NOT a runner primarily, but she is planning on running the Shamrock Shuffle.  She started running in January and this is the first time she's run in 6 years.  I was a little worried about the 6 miles given her history--she ran the Chicago Marathon 6 years ago a week after a car accident (and she wasn't really well trained to begin with) and promptly had a heart attack.  Literally.  She had lacerated her liver in the car accident and was unaware, so the strain led to a heart attack at 35 (well, and she had an enlarged heart because she was a body builder).  So anyway, I was nervous, but she's been cleared by her dr. and everything.  And she did great.  Success #2.

Then I knew that I could convince Colleen to run at least a little more, and somehow another loop around her subdivision became 4 more faster miles.  Success #3.

Avg pace:  9:02.  9:27, 9:21, 9:35, 9:30, 9:39, 9:21, 8:46 (post Mo), 8:35, 8:30, 7:47, and .10 @ 7:03 pace.