HH Intermdiate 5K - Week 2, Day 1

3.25 miles
44:30 (13:41/mile)
6:15 am
73 degrees, 77% humidity

Annoyed @ my Garmin. I stepped outside this am and turned it on and got some weird screen about "beep intervals" or something or other. Turned it off & on and all was well. Until it didn't pick up satellite until halfway through my 3 miler. And then until I got home and it laughed at me and said, "Ha! You didn't run July 10! Your last run was July 8!" So, um, Garmin, if I hauled my carcass out of bed @ 5:45 on my summer vacation, I want the credit for it, ok??? Grrr. I hope the thing is ok.

Had to run early or it wasn't going to happen. Patting myself on the back since I got back from rehearsal @ 11:30 and still managed to get up, woo hoo. Kept my HR in Zones 3 & 4 until the end. There might be something to this taking it slow until the end business.

Going to be hot next few days. It'll be morning or nothing.

HH Intermdiate 5K - Week 1, Day 5

Week 1, DONE!

Managed to get up early again and accomplish this:
3 miles
41:38 (13:52/mile)
68 degrees, 66% humidity

Concentrated really hard at going out slow, and keeping my HR in the 80% zone. Feels good to have this week under my belt. But I had three days off of play rehearsal--we are heading into tech week now AND a stretch of 90's & high 80's temps, so I hope I can manage to lug myself out of bed in the a.m. to get these runs done and stay with the plan.

*******And an update on my mom, who is fighting breast cancer...she is nearly done with the first round of chemo, which has really packed a wallop on her--she is sick for about five days after it:-( She gets it every three weeks, so right as she's starting to feel good, BAM, another treatment:-( She gets a little reprieve from it in August, then starts radiation (that's every day for a few weeks). She also goes in once a week for some special medicine to fight her particular strain of cancer...a lot of IV's and a lot of holes in her arm. So many that last week, they had to operate on her arm to put a "port" in it to make all the needles easier. Please keep her in your prayers if you are so inclined, she is a brave woman.

HH Intermdiate 5K - Week 1, Day 3

Ah, the Jersey humidity is back. Tough run this morning, but I'm patting myself on the back for getting up and getting it done before my husband had to leave. I figured I had last night off of rehearsal for July 4th, so if I couldn't get up today, I couldn't ever do it--so I'm glad it happened today. Now begins a stretch where I have only one day off of rehearsal for the next week and a half, so should be interesting how these runs get fit in...one day at a time, baby steps.

Here are today's numbers:
3 miles
40:33 (13:31/mile)
68 degrees, 93% humidity

Monumental day for a few reasons: 1) Like I said, I got up to do this; 2) I've never run 3 days in a row before, HH is ambitious, ha!; and 3) Today I hit 200 miles for the year! This was a goal I was hoping to hit before July 1, but that fell in my running slump. I am still hoping for 400 miles for the year, we'll see!

Morning run

The 2 yo has been getting molars and waking up a lot...after he woke up at least 6 times last night, it was 5:30 and I was awake for good. So I went for a run. Here's what I did:

3 miles
37:18 (12:26/mile)

Mile 1: 12:19
Mile 2: 12:23
Mile 3: 12:34

Not negative splits, but pretty close anyway. This wasn't a terrible run and it was great to get back on the road again by myself without having to cut the run short for some time constraint on the end. So yay, I got out.

To answer some questions, yes, the play I am in is a musical, community theater, and heaven help us all, I sing:-P

Run well, rest well, peace.

Morning midweek, wow

Got to run in the morning since I'm off this week. It was cold (37) but beautiful!

2.80 miles
34:02 (12:09/mile)

I did my usual R10/W1, but did not take the last walk break at the 30:00 mark. I ran an extra four minutes to simulate what it might be like to try to complete the race, fatigued, with the finish line in sight.

Peace out.