3:33:33

Six miles in one hour, but outside. I'll take that while I can get it as I go home in three days back to 18 degree weather with no sidewalk availability. It isn't just the cold; I don't like running in the middle of the street. So. I'm enjoying this while I can. And I am getting so out of shape! I feel like I had a hard workout, yud. 

I took off past Power on Pecos this morning, just to see how far it goes. It goes! I don't know why but it's so cool to just look down a long lonely road in the middle of nowhere and know I can't see the end. It's like hope; there is a lot of work to do, and that is the good news. Maybe I'm just grateful to be alive, grateful to be running, grateful for the Arizona sun and my brother for taking care of me here. (He thinks I'm studying right now).  Oh my. I could go on and on.

Ran 8.5 on the treadmill. Yee Haw! We'll see if I can keep it up this week.

Yes, they were all fast. 7.3 in an hour on the treadmill. I was going to finish slow but had to stop to take son to school who missed the bus. Never got back on. But I intend to finish tonight...I always have a hard time doing two a days but I think that will be the trick to help lose weight, since I can't find the discipline to slow down. I either don't run or I run too fast...or slow is as fast as I can when I'm having heart issues. Looking for a coach for between now and Boston. I think I have one....but he wants to marry me in Vegas. (I met him in St. George).  Hmmmm. He's good though with a great reputation (coaching reputation). As long as I can keep it an online coaching relationship we should be fine. Right???

 I feel great today! 

EZ day, treadmill. All my running friends (1.7), think I am crazy to only do treadmill. I think they are crazy to run outside in under 30 degree weather. My goal is to wear out my treadmill before it wears out me. So far I've turned the faster button into a hole and I have tons of water bottle lids on the deck thinger (I'm very proud of those; they are my treadmill trophies). I've been online looking at others' LSAT scores. Surprisingly, all those who do really well also put in months of study and do 30+ LSAT prep tests..... and other stuff I didn't do, thinking I was working harder than everyone else. Maybe the stress of waiting for my score (it's going to be really close, even if I did much better than I think), will keep me pounding out the miles. Stress. It's what's for life.

Hey, my miles right now are 33.3! Good stuff.

I have a lot of hip pain this morning. I don't want to end up like my little sister with a stress fracture and an orthopod telling her no more marathons so I walked or jogged the last 3 miles. Hurting.

I think I have a coach. Beyondperformance.org. I talked to him on the phone this morning; I had met him earlier at the StG marathon. I think he can get me to 3:45 or 3:40 for Boston and then 3:33:33 for late summer. That's what I am hoping for, shooting for. It's been a great week; my hopes are high. I haven't been outside yet though....that will be truth time. Tuesday it gets up over 30 degrees so I will go outside that day.

Tough day~ hopefully it will get better soon. Had to force each .1 mile

Coulda ran outside, it was warm enough and I could see sidewalks, albeit underwater sidewalks. I didn't make it so was ready to go tonight. I do better at night. Still some hip pain but definitely going away, had some starts and stops but overall, it was a fairly good speed workout.

I ran outside. It wasn't easy, and I meant to run further, and I about died coming up our hill (it's a mile long and has some illegally steep parts). But. I ran. Outside. Then I came back and ate and ate and ate beans until 4:30 when husband came home early, "why are you home early?", "It's the doctor/dinner party, remember?" Woops, I sort of forgot. Crammed myself into skirt, which skirt's waist was suddenly way way too tight. I sort of held my breath for the next four hours of smiling, laughing, and EATING. I did not enjoy the eating part and am now happily home, wearing sweats, not eating, and heading to bed.

Eensy beensie but hard treadmill run?!?! But, I ran.

What is fast and what is slow? I ran 11.1 miles in 1:40. I didn't make it to 40 this week, pretty tired from last week. And my knee started acting up the last couple of miles, need to lift weights, need to joint the gym for the leg weights.

Did 4 on treadmill in 39 minutes at 1-2% elevation. First day of training for Boston

I was supposed to run between 6 and 6.1 at 1% incline for 6 miles and then stretch "good". Tomorrow is off. Thursday I get to run hard, sort of. I ran all but a mile of it between 6.4 and 7...still felt unworked. But I know there will be days that will be way too hard, right?

The stretching was good and I ventured to some weights for my arms, since I didn't do it yesterday. I'm having a hard time "trusting the plan" as my coach has asked me to do.

In the overall plan, the miles crescendo nicely, eventually up to 60 a week for a few weeks, then back down before Boston. But this week is my first week and it's only 30. I wonder if he thinks I am A) 30 and B) out of shape.

I am very hard to coach so I am trying to be good. Hey. If I wasn't I would have ran 11 today in 100 minutes. But the incline is good. I should always have an incline on my treadmill.

K, the fast miles weren't fast, but they felt it. I went to the gym and used their treadmill; it doesn't cheat like mine. It was my "key run", and boy was it hard doing on holiday diet, holiday virus, holiday stress, and holiday sleep.Very tough workout for me.  If I had to run a marathon today I would walk 15 miles of it, very slowly.

 Hopefully my other key runs will be much easier. There is something to be said for running hard when you don't feel like it though. It's easy to do a great workout when I feel like it, but who's to say I'm going to have a good day come race time?

treadmill, slow

Ran outside; it was so cold. The thermometer said 28 but there was a wind and it felt much colder. I used those "hotties" hand warmers inside my gloves and my fingers were still frozen by the time I finished running down the first hill from my house. By the time I got home my lips were so cold that talking was like after getting numbed up at the dentist.

Next time I will wear the winter tights and gloves over my gloves, My head and torso were warm enough. I don't run outside enough to know how to do it but I am learning. All next week is Arizona though!

 But it was so fun getting outside, not sweating, actually going somewhere.

According to my plan I should have been finishing at 1:19:34, and that it was supposed to be "easy". I had a rough time ever being at the pace I was supposed to be as it was very hilly, so I went way faster on the downhills, (7:31) and way slower on the uphills (11+). Overall though I did it in 1:16:53, so too fast, and not easy. I was cold though and couldn't slow down much.The best news is my heart did not do the flip flop crash it often does in the shower, (neurocardiogenic syncope); I've learned to reach over and turn it much colder as soon as I start to feel symptoms and it completely fixes the problem so I don't have the hours of lethargy and near disorientation. And no need for the medication, at least not for that!

Arizona!

Missed yesterday's five miler due to traveling snafus; made it up today running around my house looking for a gym. By the time I found one it had been at least 2.5 miles.  I then did my key run treadmill workout (basically slow until five 3 minute bursts at 6.8 mph and 3% incline). I then jogged back home in perfect running weather, about 55 degrees, a slight breeze.

Jogged home from the gym, where I lifted weights. Someone has got to stop me from eating!