Time To Run

The likelihood of me getting out to run drops as the day goes on. If it's a workday I need to go before work and if it's a weekend I need to go before the family wakes up. Once the day gets going whether its work, kids activities are my just not feeling like getting off my butt it just doesn't happen. Yesterday I couldn't (didn't) get out of bed early enough in the morning to go to the gym so told myself I would have to get to it later. I thought I had a window in the afternoon between seeing the close of Wyatt's and Travis' basketball camp and getting them to their golf class but that didn't work out. I was determined to get the scheduled workout in however! It's Week 2 of marathon training and this would have been a very weak reason to miss a day. So at 9 pm with the kids in bed I went to the gym. I've told myself I would do that many times before but never made it but this time I actually went.

The plan called for a 1 hour run with 4-5 minutes of Uphill Time. No pace was specified so I suppose that meant "easy" but I wanted to at least finish near goal pace so I warmed up to 7.0 over the first 10 minutes and did that for the next 10 and increased .1 every 10 minutes finishing at 7.4. I did my hills by putting the incline to 7.0,8.0 or 9.0 for a minute during each segment and I did cut the speed down about .7 on each hill to keep a more even effort.

7.02 miles in 1 hour.
Breathing felt real good - definately conversational if I had someone to talk to.
Legs - a little fatigued toward the end but overall ok.

Most importantly I got it in!

Best of luck to Jen and her husband as they tackle a half marathon this weekend. She did a great job on qualifying and running Boston and has appeared to have gotten her form back after the post marathon recovery Her husband has gotten out there also and recently pushed her pretty hard in a 5k. A little spousal rivalry can never be a bad thing....lol