ShufflingSista

Afraid I'll have to take a goose egg for today.  I have come down with "da gunk".  Sore throat, headache, stuffy head.  Think I caught it from my son.  Tomorrow I'll try to get out for a mellow 4 mi. w/ Sara. 

4 miles w/ Sara, 10:30 pace.  It was SLOW, I had to remind myself that's what I needed to see how good I felt and if I could go harder or not the rest of the week. I felt pretty good on this run.  I think w/ some good food & sleep today I'll be ready for 5-6 mi. w/ strides tomorrow.  I'm running the Tuachan Duathlon 5K this Sat. My plan for week is: (my cold better cooperate!! so far it hasn't gotten any worse, still head conjestion and sore throat- just don't want it to move to chest as my colds usually do...)

Today- 4 mi. w/ Sara (2 more alone tonight)

Wed- 5-6 w/ at least 7 strides w/ Heather

Thurs- 4 w/ Sara (2 more alone at night)

Friday- 5 alone

Sat- race

I still want to get my 26 miles in for the week without making my cold worse and without tiring myself out for the 5k on Sat.  Any suggestions anyone? Maybe I could break up my runs and try to fit in a couple easy miles at night?

BTW- Sara is doing great! She ran her 1st 5k end of Oct. and averaged almost 12 min. miles.  Now she's running 4 miles in 10:30 w/ me! I think she'll be ready to go longer and faster soon- I just don't want to push her- want running to be fun for her.  She's lost almost 20 lbs since she started running- bravo!

Another day of improv as far as the workout was concerned.  Got to Heather's at 6:00am to be stood up (paybacks are heck).  So I went home and back to bed (I know, I know...)

I had a PT appt. at 10:00 so I decided to get to the gym early and get a few miles on the treadmill before the workout.  I only got in 2.25, then it was time to meet her.  She stood me up too! (Her daugher was sick, so she was home w/ her).  Maybe my friends and associates are trying to tell me something? (j/k.. hopefully....)  It was actually a good thing that she stood me up, I was relieved.  I'm still sore from my last workout w. her and I didn't want to be sore for the 5k on Sat. 

SO- I hopped back on the treadmill.  Overall I got in 5 miles in 45 minutes- 9 min. pace.  I had a really good run (broken into 2 segments).  I didn't run a consistent pace, but did lots of strides- would go to about 8 min. miles, hold for awhile- then recover... over & over again.  The "women's" room at the gym in nice & quiet, just a few of us in there and Rachel Ray was on so it was a good distraction.  She was suprising people w/ Christmas gifts and it brought a tear to my eye.  I'm so cheezy- running & crying....

Just wanted to add a big THANK YOU to all of you who stop by my blog and leave encouragement.  Like Lybi said- even if you just say- "You ran, good"  It means the world!!! You guys are the best!!

Have to pat myself on the back today.  Met Sara for 4 mi.  She only had 1/2 hr. so we did 3, 10:30 min. miles.  Then when she had to go home instead of going back to bed (what the normal slacker me would do...) I ran another 1.8 loop in (average 8:53 for the last 1.8). 

The rain kept me in bed today and I still haven't logged any miles for the day.  I did set a time w/ Heather to meet at the gym and run for 1.5 hr in the morning.  Hopefully we'll log 9-10 miles tomorrow.  If any of you St. Georgians want to meet us at 7am tomorrow for the run, we'd love to have you! (Gold's Gym parking lot 7am).  We figured we'd meet at gym and stick close to there so we can keep an eye on the weather- storms a-brewing!

Well- the 5k I was going to do did end up getting cancelled from all the rain we've had recently.  That's OK they are going to apply my race fees to a Feb. race &  I really only signed up so I would get my booty out of bed for training runs.  And today Heather & I got in a great run.  Man- I was struggling though! I was only 3.5 into it and my body wanted to quit! Guess that's because I haven't done any long runs lately- and this one had some incline.  But I stuck it out and glad I did! We did a nice big loop that I'd never done before, so at least that kept it interesting.  We averaged 10:20- which isn't too shabby considering how HARD it was for me and we had to stop to cross several roads and had a gas station stop to buy a drink.  So I'm sure we were actually running closer to 10 min. miles.  So I'm a few miles short of my mileage goal for the week, but I'm OK with that.  I started the week w/ a cold and the weather was a challenge this week too.   I feel my workouts I did get in were quality this week- even though most weren't too long, my pace was faster than usual (except for today) and I'm happy about that.  Well- I gotta run, family calls.  I hope to jump back on later this weekend to check out your blogs and leave comments!!! Have a GREAT weekend!