Training to be Skinny

Upper shorelinetrail run. I love it on the trails. 9.5 miles.
 

PM: ran 4 miles with son biking....if you can call it running.

The plan was to do pregressive 2 mile repeats but apparently my body wanted to do soething different. I did 2.25 warm up. The 3x2 miles (6:00,5:57)(6:00,5:55)(5:57, 5:55) 2.5 mile cool down. All well, frist workout back since 4 days off I am happy about it. =) Oh and 3mins rest inbetween sets.

All I had time to run today was 6miles pushing the double stroller..benefit of not marathon training I didn't mind the shorter mileage day. Had a full day of massages ahead of me and last achievement day activity. Busy day.

4 miles on katie's treadmill while she was working out and then 6 more miles outside. Worked out perfect just as I finished she returned.

I wanted 10x1000m at half marathon pace with 1 min rest inbetween. I've been thinking I haven't been pushing myself hard for a while. So instead of trying the times I know I would try to push a little harder this time. Normally I go 3:37 for a 1000m and last time I actually did them at 3:36 really comfortably. I kept waiting for the pain to hit but it never did. So this time I wanted to try 3:32. I did it! I mostly stayed at 3:32 to 3:33. I ended up with 9, not wanting to completely kill myself my first week back and the week before my half. I was really suprised, excited, and thrilled. I am looking forward to faster workouts again.

Usually when we run 2 hrs on the trails we count it as 15 but there was a lot of climbing so i am going to say 14 miles. Snow Basin was gorgeous! It was nice for the first time to not rush home or rush to run. We all had husbands home that day and we all got to just enjoy a different run. A little longer then my normal race taper but I figured we went really easy and I could use along run.