I Delivered: 13 miles with middle 6 pretty darn close to Race Pace (woohoo!)
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| Trying out my possible race day outfit! Boston Wicked Strong! |
This week has been absolutely crazy-we got a call on Monday at 4 pm asking us if we could move on Tuesday morning at 8. Um, yes? We had known that we would have to move to a new house in Brasilia but we had thought it wouldn't be for a couple more weeks. So we did what we could to get ready and then just spent the day apologizing to the movers for all the chaos and mess. They packed us up in one day and moved us 2 miles down the road the next day. By Wednesday night we were sleeping amongst the boxes in our new house!
Luckily I was able to stick to my running schedule and got my hill workout done on Wednesday and did my 4 miler from our new place on Friday. It's definitely strange to be running on the same roads but starting and ending at a different place. The best part is that we moved down my beloved hill so I don't have to end every run trudging up it! Yeah!
For my long run on Saturday I was supposed to attempt a race pace workout again. I was a little nervous after my spectacular flameout last time but I tried to use my positive mental powers and convince myself that I could do it. Coach Christine wanted me to do 6 miles at race pace in the middle of a 13 mile run and I knew that I had to work on controlling my pace in the first part so that I didn't tire myself out. I started out slow and hit the 3 mile mark as I was going up the hill after the JK Bridge.
For the next 6 miles, I really really tried to stay on the pace. I pushed myself, I yelled at myself, I tried not to give up. And I almost did it! I needed to be around 8:16 and I only had one mile at that pace but all the miles were around 8:30 so that's not too horrible. It was a good boost, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this! Then I still had to run 4 miles home and I almost vomited at one point but other than that it was just a slow trudge back home. Of course my body got all excited when I got near my old hill and thought we were all done. Nope, 2 more miles to go! I think it will take a while to get oriented to my new house.
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| Me in our new living room, it's huge! |
This week it's back on, crouton! I have a 10 mile run tomorrow, 9x800 on Wednesday and then duh duh 22 MILES on Saturday for a grand total of a 50 mile week! Lord help me! I'm having some minor left leg pain that I'm hoping will go away soon but I'm just going to try to stay off my feet when I'm not running, drink lots of water, take lots of Advil, and eat lots of jelly beans. Hopefully I'll emerge from this week stronger and not beat down.
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| She's 5! |
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| Happy Birthday Eleanor! |
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| Giving our new hammock a try! |
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