Bring on the challenge!

Did  my sprint workout this morning.  Hadn't been running for even 5 minutes when I felt the bathroom calling.  Thought I'd could stick it out, but made it to 15 minutes and had to take a pit stop.  Which was fine, except for the fact that I had a hard time getting back in the groove after that.  It's only a 30 minute workout anyway, but I finished and it's all good.  Signed up for the Salt Lake marathon last night :)  I've wanted to do this one for awhile, since the course runs on many of the same roads I train on.  Excited for another goal to accomplish :)

Ran 3 miles at a 6.0 on the treadmill this morning. Very easy. Guess I'll have to make up for it tomorrow :)

I'm going to start calling this my tempo workout day.  Did my laps on the treadmill like last week, with a few changes:

6.0 - 1/4 mile

6.5 - 3/4 mile

7.0 - 1 mile

7.5 - 1/2 mile - just couldn't face doing an entire mile at this pace this morning, like last week.  I know, I wimped out.  Gladly dropped down for a rest after half a mile.

6.0 - 1/4 mile

7.5 - 1/2 mile - thought after the rest I'd be better, but still kind of dragging.  You know it's a bad sign if you are already feeling nauseous at a 7.5 (I could feel all of that Halloween candy coming back to haunt me. . .)

6.0 - 1/4 mile

6.5 - 1/4 mile - picked up the pace here.  6.0 was just too slow at this point, which was actually a good thing :)

9.0 - 1/4 mile  - my playlist finished right before this lap, so I ran it sans music.  Just me, the treadmill, and 1.40 trying to tell my body not to hurl.  Almost made it, too, but those last 10-15 seconds kill me every time.  I did finish, I didn't puke, but the "almost" was definitely there again today.  

So, three weeks of this and still haven't overcome the puking sensation.  I know what I need to do next time, though.  NO MORE CANDY!!!!!  Seriously.  Halloween is killing me!!

Ran 4 miles at a 7.0 (8:34 min/mile) this morning.  It helped that I let myself sleep in this morning to the "late" hour of 7:30, and then ran after I took the kids to school.  Sometimes 6:15 a.m. and trying to run fast just don't mix :), especially by Thursday.  So, did my 4 miles and felt pretty good.  Tomorrow is my day off (hope I don't need those endorphins!), then my long run on Saturday.  

Ran  my  10 miles with the hubs this morning.  Which meant, we went at his pace, which was fine.  He's still sporting those few aches and pains.  He likes to stop and walk every couple of miles for a minute.  Nothing wrong with that, I just like to keep going ;) Glad that this was the last morning of running in the pitch black for awhile.  Daylight savings tomorrow, glad to have the sun up for my runs for a bit now :)