the neighbors got drums

The neighbors have enjoyed drumming away on their drums the last two nights. Unfortunately when you go to bed early this is ANNOYING! It makes me want to scream, break something, honk a horn, do something annoying, but I don't. I lay there wishing I could sleep. Thinking about my precious hours of sleep....so sometimes things like this energize me to run hard, but not this morning. I was barely able to roll out of bed. I sat on my couch and thought about how nice it would be to fall asleep. But I thought about my good friends getting up earlier to run with me and I was out the door. it was an enjoyable run with Sandra. No Christina. We didn't wait long. I was glad that I got out.

alarm clock and corn dogs

Yesterday Jer and I decided for a date we would run the 5k path we are doing on Sat. He didn't tell me that he wasn't going to talk to me. If I had known I would've worn my head phones. Some people are given a lot of natural talent and they don't have to work at it. Jeremy could be a machine if he ran everyday. (Thankfully he doesn't so I can run in the mornings.) It's not going to be a PR on Sat. I also learned it is hard to run after eating a corn dog, it doesn't settle well.

Alarm clock trouble! So today the alarm clock didn't go off. (Is Jer doing this on purpose?) I woke up at 5:30. Left the house at 5:36. I missed Amy. So I ran backwards. That's the good thing about them doing the same course. So I met up with them at Stansbury Elementary. I'm hoping the alarm goes off tomorrow. I will set two alarms just in case.

Week 6: October 5 - October 10

Sickness looms.

Monday

Mary Whitaker from Water Wheel joined Christina and me for our track workout.  Which started out good, but then just got bad.  I'm blaming the marching band.  They were AWFUL.  But, in better news, we ran recovery laps between 1,2,3 and 4,5,6 and only walked a lap between 3 and 4, so we're almost there.  My plan is to do this same next week, and then make it 1,2,3,4 and 5,6 with a walking lap between 4,5 and then 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 with a walking lap between 5,6 and then we'll be running all our recovery laps.  Our times were a little dismal: 1:57, 2:01, 2:00, 2:08, 2:04, 2:00.  How does Hillary do it?

Tuesday

It was another "easy" 30 minute run.  However, I forgot at the end, so I was going by distance and not time, so we ended up running the 3.03 course in 29:40, averaging 9:47/mile.  But we really should've kept going until 30 minutes. 

Wednesday

I mapped out a new 3 mile route, and we were going to try to see how fast we could reasonably run it (slower than race pace, but faster than what we have been doing).  I felt reasonably sure that we could hit somewhere between 9:00 and 9:10/mile.  We started around our neighborhood and flew up the hill toward Stansbury Parkway.  It's about a half mile of uphill and probably not the wisest thing to put first, but it was the only option from where we started.  Then we flew down the parkway, across the highway and through the Ivory Townhomes.  Since I didn't actually mark the mileage, I was a little off and we ended up having to run around the neighborhood again, which meant we had to run the half mile uphill again.  But it's good practice.  I felt pretty good until we hit the neighborhood, so I had to slow down to a crawl.  I was really lightheaded.  I think it was a lack of oxygen.  I just had to fight through it.  I crawled for a quarter of a mile and then I flew the last half mile, totally leaving everyone in the dust (or so my version of the story goes), as we ran down Water Wheel.  We finished in 27:41, averaging 9:13/mile.  Not too shabby.  We ran the first mile in 9:00, the second in 9:09 and Mile 3 in 9:32.  If only I hadn't had to slow down...

Thursday

I swam again this morning, but I didn't want to.  I wasn't feeling very good, but I was slated to drive and I didn't want to wake everyone's house by calling at 5 am, so I just sucked it up.  I'll probably pay for it for a few days.  Another uneventful swim.

Friday

I called Hillary yesterday and cancelled my long run for the week because I could feel a cold coming on.  I don't want it to move into my lungs if I can help it because with the asthma, it just takes up residence for WEEKS and I can hardly do anything.  So I didn't do anything, though I did hear that both Hillary and Christina got out. 

Saturday

I took today off as well.  I'm feeling better, but not quite up to par.  I'm hoping by Monday I'll be back in pretty good shape.

A Week Behind

I totally forgot to post last week's activities:

Monday, September 28

We ran our track workout this morning pretty consistently, though I had a stomach ache due to the ice cream I ate Sunday night.  So I had to find a bathroom.  But I felt much better afterwards.  We got all six in and ran between 1,2  3,4, and 5,6.  We did a recovery walk between 2,3 and 4,5.  2:00, 2:02, 2:02, 1:58, 2:00, 2:00

Tuesday, September 29

We did a 30 minute easy run this morning, which was a challenge because I was fighting a migraine.  Every step I took reverberated in my head.  But we did 3.03 in 30:05, averaging 9:56/mile.  Didn't seem like we were moving that "fast", but I guess we were.  I feel good about being down to a sub-10 minute pace for the "easy" runs.  I let Hillary borrow my watch for her run with Amy and Sharayne and was pleasantly surprised to find that we weren't that far behind them.

Wednesday, September 30

It was POURING this morning.  Christina opted to stay home, but Hillary and I braved the conditions.  We were suppose to run 3 miles at a 9:30 pace but it was too dark and wet, so we did 3 miles around the neighborhood in 30:52, averaging about 10:17 per mile.

Thursday, October 1

I went swimming this morning with some friends from Millpond, Sara and Cassie.  I ran with them in the Marathon Relay in September.  It was pretty uneventful if I remember correctly.

Friday, October 2

We decided to do 8 miles this morning for a long run.  I mapped out a course that started at Christina's and ran all over Stansbury.  We did really good for the first five miles and then Hillary got a stomach ache.  Naturally, the golf course bathroom was closed so she kept going.  At about 6.50 miles, she had to stop and walk and Christina and I continued ahead to finish the 8 miles, which included a loop around Christina's neighborhood.  Hillary's dignity remained intact for another day, but it was a close call.  We ran 8 miles in 1:18:53, averaging 9:52/mile.  Which is just plain awesome.  8 miles at a sub 10 minute pace.  YAY!!  I felt really good, like I could've kept that pace up for another few miles. 

Saturday, October 3

Christina went to a scrapbooking thing and Hillary was spending the day with her hubby, so I decided to take the day off.  It felt good to sleep in and not worry about working out.

My hardest work out

I didn't think I was going to work out today. I wasn't really planning on it. I slept in. (Well I still woke up but went back to bed.) By afternoon the weather was nice and I thought it would be fun for the whole family to go over to the track. Well Jer didn't think this sounded like fun, so I went by myself. It's not fun working out by myself. I really WISH Jeremy would get on board. But honestly if I was thin and could run a 23 minute 5k without training, hey I probley wouldn't be working out either. Anyways back to the workout. It was a little chilly and the wind was blowing. But I gave it my all. It's a lot better times than running on the treadmill. It was hard to push myself but I did it. I kept thinking Boston, boston, boston!!! If I don't make it, it wont be because I didn't give it my all. Honestly I'm glad I was able to walk off the track after my workout. Tomorrow will be another story.... So here's my interval times and I did manage to jog in between except for the 3/4 I walked.
1- 1:46
2- 1:40
3-1:40
4-1:43
5-1:42
6-1:38!! I couldn't believe I could finish that strong. I called Sandra than remembered she is at her speech stuff. I couldn't have run any faster, I gave it my all!