You Can Do It!

I felt good today.  It was overcast, but still very warm.  It began to sprinkle when I was about 45 minutes into my run and that felt really good. Unfortunatley it didn't last very long :)

I ran a few different loops using my house as a water spot. I was supposed to do a 1hour and 45 min workout.  I missed my last 2 or 3 min, and ended up walking the last 20 min of what I did get in.  I didn't get to bed the night before until 12:00, and then my family and I spent the day walking around the Hill Air Force Musium. So, when I went to go run I was already tired, and I just compleatly ran out of energy.  I wonder if usuing a gue would have helped.  I'll have to try it next week for my 2 hour run.

My legs were pretty stiff this morning, but I pushed through it and finished my workout. Today I ran 6 minuts to one min of walking.

When I started out today my legs were so stiff and hurt so bad, so I ended up walking most of my workout today, but I'm still counting them as miles because I didn't just give up and go home even though I so badly wanted to.

I felt a lot better today and was able to run 6 minutes to 1 minute of walking for my entire workout.  At 45 minutes into my workout I used a Gue.  I think that made a great difference.  I barrowed my husbands Garmen today and found out that I was able to run a sub 12 minute mile for most of my workout.  I know that doesn't sound like much of an accomplishment, but it is for me.  Here are my splits.

Mile 1 11:39

Mile 2 11:58

Mile 3 12:04

Mile 4 11:26

Mile 5 11:44

Mile 6 11:52

Lap 7 (0.81 miles) 9:22 (averaging a 11:30 mile)

Like I said, I know this is dead slow to most of you, but it shows improvement on my part. Hopefully both my time and endurance will continue to improve.

Today was a really short run.  I averaged an 11:14 mile.

I took about 3 minutes off last years time.  Wooohooo!

My splits are as follows

Mile 1/  10:45

Mile 2/ 11:14

Mile 3/  11:28

Mile 4/ 11:14

Lap 5/ (.62 mile) 6:36 (averaging 10:36 mile)

My rite leg was really sore today.  I pulled a couple muscles (groin and hip-flexer) during the race on Saturday, so today I just walked for my workout.  Even with just walking, by the time I was done my leg was burning, so I took an ice-bath. Burrrr.

I did a warm up, but my leg hurt so bad I decided it was probably counter productive to keep running on it so I decided to give it a rest for today.  Hopefully by tomarrow it will be better, and I'll be able to get back to running.

My leg is still feeling painful so I decided to cross train by riding a bike. I am not a great biker as it is, but about two miles into my ride the chain falls off, and I don't know how to fix it.  It's a good thing I was riding different loops that ended back at my house because I had to walk the bike home. 

I had Matt look at the bike last night, and had him teach me how to put the chain back on.  This morning when I went for my ride the chain fell off three times in less that five minutes.  I GIVE UP!  I'll try running again on Monday.

My leg felt a lot better today.  I started off to hard though and ended up walking the last five min.

I didn't get much sleep last night.  I had a hard time getting to sleep and then at 2:00 I woke up and tossed and turned until Matt's alarm went off at 4:00.  I should have just got up, but I kept trying to get some sleep.  Finally at around 6:30 I driffed off and slept til about 8:30.  By the time I got out for my run it was hot hot hot.  I felt like I had no energy.  I ran 5 min and walked one for most of my workout, but in the end the heat and lack of good sleep caught up to me and I ended up walking the last five minutes.

Took it pretty easy today.  Just a 20 min workout.

Today was great!  I was out the door by 6:45 did a warm-up and ran for an hour and twenty minutes.  I felt better today after my run than all  the rest of this week.  Guess I should get up early more often. :)

My rite upper leg and hip were pretty sore today so I walked about 80% of my workout today.