Half of a half!

Yesterday Mommom sent me this picture of her, Grandpop Victor, Aunt Joyce, Aunt Helene, and Daddy. I don't know that I've ever seen a picture of the 5 of them, so it was pretty special!

 

Anyway, last night I was thinking about my workout schedule for the weekend, and realized that it made much more sense to do my long run today rather than tomorrow. My legs felt really fresh from taking 2 days of rest and it would be silly to waste that! I also figured that all this snow isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so regardless of whether I did my run today or tomorrow it was going to be inside. So I ended up doing my long run today, I'll do a light bike ride tomorrow with some strength training, and maybe I'll run a few miles on Sunday. Even though that wasn't my original plan, sometimes you just have to be flexible!

On my own training plan I had 5 miles scheduled, TNT's plan had 5-6 scheduled. I decided to shoot for 6 because I was doing my run on the treadmill. But I ended up running 6.5 and then walking to cool down a little for a total of 7 miles! I was worried that I would get bored, so I decided to do intervals and I played around with the incline. Splits: 

0-.5 5:00 1.0 incline 

.5-1 4:17 1.0 incline 

1-1.5 5:00 1.5 incline 

1.5-2 4:17 1.5 incline 

2-2.5 5:00 2.0 incline 

2.5-3 4:17 2.0 incline 

3.-3.5 5:00 2.0 incline 

3.5-4 4:17 2.0 incline 

4-4.5 5:00 1.5 incline 

4.5-5 4:17 1.5 incline 

5-5.25 2:30 1.0 incline 

5.25-5.5 2:09 1.0 incline 

5.5-5.75 2:30 1.0 incline 

5.75-6 2:09 1.0 incline 

6-6.5 5:00 .5 incline

Running total time: 60:38 

6.5-7 7:22 (cooldown) 0 incline

7 miles in 68 minutes 

Phew! It was tough! I was a sweaty mess afterward. But it was half of a half marathon! So I just have to double that and I'll be ready for race day! I have a very fun weekend planned, hope you all have a good one too!

--Melissa