Archive for June 24th, 2008

Glad that’s over. :-)

I was doing my best not to fear today’s run (8 w/4 tempo) but was admittedly kinda nervous because, aside from strides, it’s the fastest I’ve run since my 10-mile race on May 4th, not to mention my mileage has been whacked drastically since then.

Additionally, looking at Pfitzinger’s schedule the other day, I realized that while some things seem easier to me (one hard run a week instead of the two I’d been doing), he adds a level of difficulty by padding those quality runs with some extra miles, so today’s run had 3 warmup miles instead of my usual 1 or 2. Pooh. I like to get rid of hard workouts as quickly as possible, but Pfitz would prefer us to suffer more. Oh well.

I aimed for the conservative side of the range, figuring 8:00 would be doable. Ended up with an 8:01 average, so I’m feeling good about it. This is my first hard workout in ages, so I’ll get back to my April tempo speed before too long, I’m sure.

Aside from the tempo run, I forgot to mention that on vacation, while running on a Holiday Inn Express treadmill and simultaneously admiring myself in the mirror, I realized that those comfortable sports bras I’ve got a zillion of are comfortable because they suck. My boobs were losing more calories than my body was, they were flapping around so much. So last night I finally weeded all offending undergarments from my drawer. It was an uplifting experience. Yuck yuck. Now on to Target to replenish my supply…