Training Tuesday

Hello all!

I am back with another edition of Training Tuesday! I intended on updating my progress earlier, but, you know, life.  I did forget to mention in my last post a milestone I had for the year!

I hit 200 miles for the year during my run on the 5th!

Okay, on to more current business. Tuesday I took a rest day. On Wednesday I had 4 miles scheduled with mile 3 at 5k race pace. It was a muggy morning, and I didn't know if I could hit my pace for the 3rd mile.

95% humidity!?!

I took my warm-up seriously, and slowly rolled through the first two miles at 12:01 and 13:18 (had to make a pit stop). I decided to just push hard and see what came out of it. I hit my 3rd mile at 9:31, which is 8 seconds faster than race pace! I didn't think I could do it, considering how muggy it was! Maybe I should title this Triumph Tuesday! Oh, and this happened

Not my fastest mile ever, just the fastest one with my Garmin! I also get one of these with every long run that increases! 

This also happened! I've been running about 3 1/2 years, so this was cool!

Thursday, I did yoga. I think that I will make it a normal Thursday thing. It feels so good to stretch out after putting in the miles. Then, I foam rolled for about 20 minutes. 

Friday, I had 3 easy miles plus strides on the schedule. I got close, but didn't get the strides in. Tropical Depression Bill decided to open up on me at about 2.25 in, so I ended up just running hard for the remainder just to get home.  

I was looking forward to Saturday's long run. After the previous Saturday that about killed me, I needed a better run. Plus, it was my 35th birthday, so I had to have a good run! I left my alarm alone, and set out around 6 a.m. to get my 8 miles in. 

Still muggy 

It was overcast with the light breeze so it actually felt kind of nice throughout my run! I took it nice and slow, with a few stops for water, and a bathroom break (I have to quit drinking coffee before I run). My splits for the run were:

1- 11:54

2- 14:26 - bathroom

3- 12:21

4- 12:22

5- 16:12 - bottle of water at my aunt's house. Then a short conversation with her

6- 12:52 - fumbling with said bottle of water and placing it on the loops I was running around

7- 13:30 - huge boulder in both my shoes! Okay, they were small pebbles, but felt huge!

8-11:31 

Pushing that last mile felt great! Maybe too great. Could I have went a little harder throughout? I don't know. I just know I wanted to feel good through the entire run, so I just slowly put one foot in front of the other. I got to listen to some super cool music during my run. Here's a sample

I just love Spotify!

After my run, I had my usual glass of chocolate milk, took an ice bath cool bath to soak my legs, put on my compression socks, ate an unhealthy recovery meal of Egg White Delight, and hash brown from McDonald's, foam rolled, and then proceeded to take a 2 hour nap.

My recovery must have been productive, my legs weren't very sore from the run. I foam rolled on Sunday after going to church and having lunch with Dad and Ruthie. 

On Monday, I had my track workout. 1 mile warm up (12:07), 6 X 200 with a 1:1 recovery, 1 mile cool down (11:28). Total run 3.21 miles

Splits

1 - :49

2 - :48

3 - :53

4 - :50

5 - :52

6 - :51

One goal to work towards!

And that brings me to today! This post took longer to write (maybe it was the pictures, and having to edit a few so that they were not sideways). I think I will probably start updating more, so that it isn't as time consuming at one time. I'm still new to this blogging thing, so bear with me. Tomorrow is my first hill run. The biggest hill I run only raises about 10 feet, so this is definitely going to be out of my comfort zone! 

20 weeks to go!

Total Monumental mileage - 46.45

Happy running!