Tough workout 1 was 1.6 mi warm up, 6 x 800 @ 3:15 pace followed by 1.6 mi cool down. It was 5 AM and drizzly when I did this workout and each 800 (0.5 miles, really) began and ended with some phlegm spitting and snot rockets. I was tempted to skip the cool down, but some small part of me continued on.
Tough workout 2 was 2 mi warm up, 3.5 miles tempo (~7:00 pace) and 800 m cool down. This was a turning point in the week and felt great. My average tempo pace was 6:50 despite have some W-I-N-D-Y conditions! I did this the morning of Christmas eve and in my new Oiselle Juno tights (Christmas gift to myself!).
Probably the hardest workout of last week was 4 miles easy. I SLOGGED through this. My legs were so tired!
Tough workout 3 was 12 miles, the day after Christmas. Long runs always freak me out. Luckily I was on a tight timeline because we had a Christmas celebration to get through so I could not procrastinate as I tend to. I even forced myself to do an out and back course. I also get very anxious about out and back courses because I think that I am not going to be able to get back - it is all very mental for me! I did not have a new Serial to listen to so I put the new Adele album (Christmas gift from Nate's cousin) on my iPod and took off. That got me through the first hour (that and lemonade Nuun) and it was smooth sailing the way home...until it started raining. Avg pace was 7:32 for this. I also had to do 6 stride outs after this workout and I felt like I was running REALLY fast during the stride outs. My neighbors, who already think I'm crazy, probably thought I was REAL crazy watching those.
As I was wrapping up my log of the week, I felt joy looking back on it. It was a lot of suffering in the dark and cold and it made me a stronger runner. Great post on the value of suffering by Kristin Armstrong here.)
Total Miles Last Week: 31.4 (Plan Goal: 28.25 miles)
I continued the #RWRunStreak challenge by running 1.1 miles on my "off days". I have now run 33 days in a row!
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