Back again

First run since stomach virus invaded our whole house. What a week.

6.70 miles
1:19:48 (11:54/mile)
25 degrees, windy, but beautiful

I warmed up for five min on the treadmill before setting out. Ran a mile+ to the track, ran 4 miles there, and a mile+ back. The track had snow & ice on it. Today, I alternated directions to remember what mile I was on, that kept things a little more interesting. Felt pretty good, especially after being out of commission for a week. Knee actually started talking to me (NOT hurting, just making its presence known).

Here is the approx. pace per mile breakdown:
Mile 1 - 11:42/mile
Mile 2 - 11:52/mile
Mile 3 - 11:43/mile
Mile 4 - 12:16/mile
Mile 5 - 11:10/mile (I was trying to finish 5 miles under an hour)
Mile 6+ - 12:34/mile

I am a little disappointed, I was supposed to do 9 miles today, but it was cold, I was rusty, the knee was talking, and nature was calling, so I bagged the last 2.3 miles. Ugh. The HM is still 3 months away, I am not going to freak out just yet. Life happens. It is a little frustrating that I make a little progress (see previous entry, my 1 mile time trial of 9:23--improvement from 9:43 3 months ago) then have a setback. Grr.

I did just run nearly 7 miles, wow.

Now my family is taking me out for my birthday, which got lost in the lunacy of the week. I am 25. Again. ;-)

Fit it in

3.36 miles
36:18 (10:48/mile)

The boy had a birthday this weekend, so that was the priority. My grandiose plans of a five mile run in daylight hours were usurped by Chuck E. Cheese:). I ran with a belly full of Chuck E. pizza and birthday cake and it slowed me down a bit on this beautiful night.

Glad that I fit the run in:-) We are headed to Disney this Thursday, I have class Monday night, chaperone a school trip to a Broadway show Tuesday night, I suspect I'll be up mighty late packing Wednesday night! But woo hoo, Disney, here we come. I'll even try to run there (in anticipation of the 2008 HM;-))!

PS--I am happy at our growing HM Express training team, thanks Wes for organizing!