Running Schedule this week!!

Well you always wonder how your running week will be when you wake up and it is raining. Sprints are my first run of the week so today was sprint day. I love sprint day. Yes I said it, give me sprints over a long run any day. We had to run 10 x 400 with a pace of 2:15 with a rest interval of 1:30. We had to run inside on a track so it was a little different. But it was nice to have a little AC blow on you every once in awhile. And I must confess, it was nice to run with Kent and each of us led 5x's to try to get the pace. To say the least, we never got the right pace, we hit 2:00 minutes every time.

Workout #2 this week will be 1 mile warmup, 3 miles @ short tempo pace(9:56) 1 mile cooldown.

Workout #3 this week will be 10 miles @ long tempo pace(10:26)

Some weeks are good runs, some weeks are bad, and this week so far so good, but today was a great day to run!!

My Journey to the Rock-N-Roll San Diego

Ok, so here it is, I have something I can blog about and blog about often. I have never been much of a runner but I love to exercise. Well to be specific, I love to do My Body Envy Bootcamp. Over a glass of wine, my sister asked me to pick a half marathon and run it with her. The background on this, she is trying to qualify for and run in the Boston Marathon before she is 41. She has numerous races, one marathon and a few half marathons under her belt. I am not sure if it was her or the wine but I agreed to run in San Diego on June 6, 2010. When I agreed to this, I had a little over 5 months to train. I had only been back at Bootcamp for a little over three months but I felt really good. My thigh muscles were coming back and the knee felt good. I thank God that I recovered so well, some have not been as lucky and I knew it was Gods grace that I had done so well. As everyone knows who is close to me, the rehab did not go as well and truly I thought I would never run again. Someone told me half of rehab is mental, and maybe it is, but I felt broken and defeated and didn't think I would ever be at the same level of exercise I was at before my ACL injury. I know it helped going back to bootcamp and seeing for myself I wasn't broken, and having Eric push us to a level further than we think we can do helped too. So here I am, 11 weeks until race day. I am doing bootcamp six days a week and running three. I do sprints one day, a tempo run and a long run. The longest I have run is 8 miles and it felt great. I have found my new best friends

and my running partner, Kent. He puts up with me grumpy and all, I have learned I am not a fun person to run with and would rather have the solitude when my feet hit the pavement. But I am learning to love my running partner, just like I am learning to love the run. I am off for a nap now and looking forward to next weeks track runs!