With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams...

Afternoon run with Wyatt.  Shorts & tshirt weather.  Beautiful trees all full with buds ready to explode any day now.  Fields full of green winter rye or tiny purple weeds- promise of good things to come! 

MR rode along on the bike.  The worst part of the run was that it had to end.

We spoke of planning another road-kill run this spring.  Hooray!!

Realized I've double booked my Saturday morning this week.  I'll either have to skip the pre-paid race or skip a special program my little buckaneer is in.  It should be a no-brainer, but I'm having mixed feelings!  Bad Mother Pirate of the year ;-)

Lazy bum day.  Went shopping all over NC looking for bikes.  Found out the ones we wanted were at the first store we'd gone to up the street.  Go figure.

Officially started my Road Kill Run training today.  Run is scheduled for April 30th!!

ran a 9:07 average pace.  Progressive run all the way except the last .1 which was 5 seconds slower.  I'm not even going to count it!

Ab ripper in the am to follow.  I can actually tell I'm getting better at some of those exercises!

After work MR and I got to try out our new bikes.  How Fabulous they are.  They're hybrids, so not as fast as a street bike would be, but compared to the walmart specials we've been riding, they are amazing :-)  We were so excited to ride them that we forgot to push start on the garmins when we started.  Around mile 3.25 we started them.  For the next 5.75 miles, we finished in 25 minutes.  I think it was around 16 mph.  It doesn't sound fast, but it felt like we were flying.

Then we had a little dance off.  I think it was a 2-3 score.  I'm the 2 obviously.

Not a bad way to start my "back to work" after a 5 day holiday.

Someone turned off my alarm.  It wasn't me.  MR said it wasn't him, although he did admit to touching it yesterday.  So it must have been the cat or the chicken.

Either way, I got 1.5 extra hours of sleep.  Only had enough time for a 20 min shred video.  I thought of Carolyn while I was doing it.  It is a good quick indoor workout.

I'll have to do my Road Kill Run training after work.  Speed work!!  Can't wait.

PM run: 1 mile warm up, 1 mile @ 7:58, .5 cool down, 1 mile at 8:06, .5 cool down, 1 mile at 7:57, 1 mile cool down.  avg pace was 8:44.  Pretty happy with it.  The first speed mile felt tough, but towards the end, I was feeling really great.  Could have gone another round or two.

I wasn't sure how this run was going to go this morning.  After the shred yesterday and then running speedwork last night, I thought I was going to be KO'd.

I wriggled on my cheetah pants and did my pt warm ups.  MR got up and went out with me.  We averaged a 9:44.  It was 1 min slower avg pace than yesterday, but the effort felt faster than it was.  Tired legs I think.  The cheetah pants are awesome- I can feel the support while I am running.  Legs felt better after a few miles (as usual).

pilates and core (slash) ab ripper X

then stretching.  lots of stretching.

Wriggled into the cheetah pants early this morning to get my miles in early.  Lots of things to do before lunch time today.

Started off slow, just wanted to get the miles in.  Felt good and just plugged away.  MR rode his new bike along side of me to keep me company.

ran into knee troubles. had to walk & stretch quads a couple of times. disappointing, yes.  Glad I was able to finish.  I thought the cheetah pants & small knee band would be sufficient, but it looks like I might still need the big brace for longer runs.

I'll be working on leg strength more this week too.  Don't want any more knee troubles.  Ever.