Went on Wednesday on my lunch break. Definitely not my favorite way to do it, but it got done. Went this morning and upped my interval to five/four, but only a couple of times, the rest of the intervals were still four/four. The real victory was that I went this morning. I really REALLY did not want to get up, but I did it. And now I'm glad I did, as always.

Moral Victory

First, I did 3 on Sunday. Not the 6 I had imagined but at least I went. I just felt really fatigued. And, I've been having this hip pain since I did 6 the first weekend after the half. But anyway.

Went to the gym last night and this little blondie hopped on the treadmill next to me after I was a mile in. She was talking on her cel phone, which was annoying, but I figured she'd wrap her conversation up during her warm up. Which she didn't. She proceeded to chat along for the next mile, whilst my rage and indignation increased. I couldn't get my music loud enough to drown her out and I was totally off my mojo. I coughed loudly a couple times and muttered curse words under my breath, but she wasn't getting the hint. So finally I just said "excuse me, could you move over there?? you are really distracting me!". And she left, over to the other side of the room and continued walking and talking. Bitch. Where do people get off ignoring the rules??? Not to mention being so inconsiderate and rude. But, I was proud of myself for finally getting up the guts to say something. Then this guy who was on the other side of her goes "Thanks!!" to me. So I think that from now on I shall not tolerate idiots on their cel phones in the cardio room. I'm in the right, dammit!!! And if you want to see me open up a can of whup-ass, just keep talkin.

Anyway, I did 3 but it was a good 3.

This my shit

I did the four and four. For four miles. And it was good. It was pretty tough though, so I'll keep it here for a bit, I think.

3.5

is what I did today. I only ran about 2.5 of it though, walked the last mile. It was kind of a victory that I went at all given the 5 beers I had last night. I'm going to do 6 again tomorrow. I've been doing pretty good on my eating except that I had a cheeseburger last night along with the beer, and I had spinach dip and tortilla chips for dinner tonight, followed by a carmel apple with m&m's. But, ya know, I'm trying. I'm not feeling entitled to eat whatever the hell I want, despite all evidence to the contrary, which is the routine I had gotten into.

new equipment

Since I ditched my Camelbak in the PF Chang's, I needed to buy a new one. It was really OK to ditch it, because I bought it approximately 12 years ago. The ones they make now are much nicer, they fit better, and I definitely deserve to treat myself to some good equipment. I also got a cleaning kit and a case of the margarita flavored shot bloks. So I'm all set! Except I woke up this morning with this stupid cold worse instead of better. I am doing 5 tomorrow and I don't care if it kills me. I gotta get back out there. It will probably help the cold go away.

Did four miles today. Bumped it up to four running to five walking for almost all of it. Funny thing, though, I kept thinking that I wanted to start running again after only four minutes of walking, as opposed to five. I made myself do the five of walking since that was my plan, but I thought about it and decided tomorrow I'll go ahead and do four miles again and see how it feels to just do four and four. The ultimate plan was to do five and five, but that's not what I'm feelin' so I'll give four and four a shot and see how it feels. I'll let you all know what happens! And, just so everyone is aware of what that would mean, that would mean I am running two whole miles. The craziness of that, it slays me! That is what it would mean, right? Half running, half walking and four total miles? I don't know, I might end up quitting with the running.....I can't stand all the math!

And Sandy, I'm just glad I don't travel often, because it wasn't just tough for me to maintain good exercise while I was traveling, it was downright impossible. I feel for ya!

did 2

at the gym. Not great but better than nothing. Its hard to keep up the routine when I travel.

Well, I did my regular 45 this morning, doing three minutes running to five minutes walking. My run pace was the same as the walking pace of the guy next to me, which was funny. Not that I was peeking!

Anyways, the goal here is to increase the run time by one minute at a time until I am doing five minutes running to five minutes walking and then, perhaps, start decreasing the walk time by one minute intervals until I feel like I have a good ratio. And then start increasing my running pace. So, I've got quite a long way to go here. It's good my next thing isn't until October!

cottonwood

I have a time goal for my next half too, but I'm not sure Cottonwood is the place to get there. I'm going to try anyway. The course has lots of hills so I think I am going to try doing my longs in Saguaro national park and Sabino Canyon. I need to be going up hills. I am losing weight steadily so that will help. I agree Sandy, it makes a big difference, both in speed and in how it feels to actually run.
I have the nastiest cold ever and I haven't run in over a week. I was thinking I would go this morning and maybe it would help clear stuff out but I hardly slept from coughing and feel like there's an elephant sitting on my chest. So I thought better of it. Maybe tomorrow.

Here we go again!!!

Which is so funny because I had said I was going to take a couple years off after this. And I know Mari said never again. But Missy never faltered.

Anyhoodle (to borrow a phrase from Mari), I did six miles the Sunday after the half, and 6 again yesterday (along with 3 on Tues and 3.5 on Weds). I decided to keep my weekend longs at a min of 6 so I won't have to work so hard to get back up there for our next adventure. Marianne I think you should come down for Cottonwood!

I will say that most of my runs have been a bitch, but the 3.5 I did was just over 11 min miles. I walked the last mile of my 6 yesterday. And, I took tonight off and tomorrow too since I'm traveling.

I really think that the wight I've gained has made all the difference. When we did the OC last year, my half time was 2:47, with a long wait in the bathroom line, as opposed to the death march that was my 2:49 at the R&R two weeks ago. My goal is to get under 2:30. And, I'd eventually like to do it in 10 min miles, which would be around 2:10. But, I need to lose some weight to do that. I can really feel the difference when I'm running, how much heavier I am now.