Ugly Toes

Real quick entry here, since I need to finish getting ready so that the Engineer and I can go to dinner to celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary. Last year, our application for Molly got approved, so even though we didn't get her for another month she was our anniversary present. This year, we decided to not even buy each other cards in an effort to save money. (We're only going out to dinner instead of me cooking like I have the last 2 years because we still haven't used the $100 gift certificate we won at my company christmas party). Apparently the Engineer did think about still getting me flowers (which would be a first) but I unknowingly shot myself in the foot for that last night.

I did my first LT run tonight. Hmm. I ran out 2.5, ran 4 at a pace approximating what I'd like to run in next month's 1/2 marathon, and then ran 2.5 more. Splits for the LT portion:
7:32
7:32
7:47
7:35

The first 2 are amazing for my consistency ... I was at 3:45 at the half for both. After the second, I thought I'd gotten into a groove, but after hitting the next half mark at 4:03 I realized I'd slowed down too much. So I picked it back up and came in only 15 seconds off. The last one was a little difficult because I'd chosen a path that had some slight hills. It was in the mid 80s, so this was probably a harder effort than the pace should've been. I don't think I could've kept it up for another 9.1 miles, but we'll see what happens in a month.