It is so cold in the morning this last week it is really hard to get out of bed. So hitting the snooze button a couple of times doesn’t seem unreasonable. Even FD#1 is sleeping through the alarm which normally has her up and sticking her face in mine insisting I get up and we go walking. So the fact that she is even sleeping in, makes it easier to justify being slack in the morning. I reconcile in my head that DR 2011 is still over 12 months away and I don’t need to get too excited, just yet.
I’ve just finished reading “50 Marathons, 50 Days” by Dean Karnazes and he says you have to be flexible with your training and not allow last minute changes to get you down, and always have a back-up plan on how to get that session into the day. So back-up plan for today is to squash it into tonight. The bonus also is that I found out the planets have aligned today and both CBoy and MGirl are working (roughly the same times) tonight. That means 2 things; it’s just me tonight to do whatever I want and have dinner whenever I can, and that MGirl can drive them both home. Yeah, I get to wait up for them to get safely home...in bed!!
So after work I fed the dogs and headed out for a run. I was searching the internet today and ended up on the WA Marathon Club website and found a list of lots of runs coming up. The Women’s Classic is on Sunday, a 10km run which I thought would make a good training on run. So, I needed a longer run tonight and drop back to a 5km run for Thursday. I headed out on the 5km loop and added another street into it before I turned a corner. (I really want to get a GPS/heart rate monitor, so I don’t have to keep clocking these runs in the car afterwards!). By the time I cut back into the original 5km loop and “push-it” roundabout I was feeling pretty good. I call it push-it roundabout as I know it’s 2kms from home, and if I’m feeling good at that point I try to crank it up a little as I know I’m close to home. So crank it up I did and ended up back at home after 43 minutes. I still am not timing my runs, and don’t want to, but I deep down wanted to know where I was starting at with a km/min time just so I had something to work from and towards better times. So I cheated and looked at the time on the phone that had been my radio for the run. (I still have to buy another Ipod as CBoy managed to destroy the one I’d leant him, he has a habit of things just falling apart in his hands!)
Getting home and having a quick stretch, I headed out again with FD#1 for a 3km walk. Home again and dinner done, I am going to sink into the tub...which is no mean feat in this house as it’s only 2/3 the size of a full tub! I’m the smallest in my house and I only just fit in it now! (OK, I had to clock this run before getting in the tub...it was only 6.5kms, so I’m kind of bummed now as it means I am slower than slow; no wonder why I’m feeling good on the run...I’m not even pushing hard and it means my kms are 6+ minutes! That isn’t fun to admit!!)
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