Running Pet Peeves

Today’s Workout – Progressive Tempo Total Mileage: 7.08 miles Total Time: 1:00:00 Average Pace: 8:30 min/pace Today’s workout broke down as follows: 0.5 mile warm up 5 mile progressive tempo (8:27, 8:13, 8:00, 8:00, 7:53) 0.5 mile cool down jog 4 x...

What I Ate and Fun New Recipes

Today’s Workout – Recovery Run Total Mileage: 7.01 miles Total Time: 01:06:45 Average Pace: 9:30 min/pace This run was pretty good but my legs didn’t really get into it until mile 5.  I ended up pushing my planned 6 mile run out one extra mile...

Weekly Training Recap: 7/22-7/28

Today’s Workout – Long Run Total Mileage: 13.05 miles Total Time: 02:04:54 Average Pace: 9:15 min/mile I can’t believe another week is already over! This was one of the toughest weeks mentally and personally for me I have had in quite a while, but I...

Before Work Workout

Today’s Workout – Short Speed Work Total Mileage: 5.10 miles Total Time: 00:45:10 Average Pace: 8:56 min/pace I have never been a morning run. Ever. It has always been a struggle for me to get up and get moving.   I knew I had to work this Saturday and had...

Relax and Rest

Today’s Workout – Rest Day I just realized when I was typing up this post that I haven’t taken a rest day in almost 2 weeks.  I thought about getting up this morning and running, but I decided my legs needed a day of complete rest. Work has been out...

How to Do a Proper Warm Up

Today’s Workout – Speed Work Total Mileage: 6.02 miles Total Time: 00:53:11 Average Pace: 9:19 min/pace Breakdown of today’s workout was:0.5 mile warm up (around the track)8 x 400’s at a 7:05 pace400 jog in between each1.5 mile cool down...

Break It Up

Today’s Workout – Recovery/Easy Run(s) Total Mileage: 10.12 miles Total Time: 01:34:29 Average Pace: 9:30 min/pace I am just going to go ahead and throw this out there in case anyone is listening – if anyone would like to pay me to work from home...

I Can’t, I Can’t, I Can!

Today’s Workout – Tempo Run   Total Mileage: 7.01 miles   Total Time: 01:00:28   Average Pace: 8:37 min/pace     Breakdown of today’s workout:   0.25 mile warm up 4 mile tempo run (8:13, 8:06, 8:00, 7:53) 0.75 mile slow run 30 sec on/3 sec off...

The Little Things

Today’s Workout – Easy Run Total Mileage: 5.05 miles Total Time: 00:49:10 Average Pace: 9:40 min/pace Today’s run should be titled “The Run That Almost Didn’t Happen.”  Without going into too much detail this week is crazy stressful...

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