Half Marathon Training

Half Marathon training started today. Only had a short time to fit in a run. Fed the baby, had the 3 year old busy on sesamestreet.org and the hubby was making dinner. Switching the Tuesday, Wednesday workouts. Did 5 x 2:20 at moderately hard pace with 1:10 jogs between. Total about 2.25 miles. Was guessing on the time it would take for me o do a 400. Plan calls for 3 miles Wednesday and Thursday. I am hoping to get up early those days, it is supposed to be really hot the next week. I have Friday as a back up if I miss one of those days.

New Goal

I have some weight to lose yet so I have decided to try to lose 12 pounds in 12 weeks. This is just a goal, not sure if I can make it a reality but I will be happy if I can lose 10. Starting weight 125. So we'll see, it will coincide with my 12 week training plan for the half marathon.

Did 3 miles this afternoon, wasn't nearly as humid. It made for a much easier run.

Starting the half marathon training plan on Monday. Looking forward to it. It will make me put in some miles. Going to use Hal Higdon plan, might combine the novice and intermediate. The novice repeats the long run distances (i.e. 4,4,5,5,) whereas the intermediate increases by a mile each week with a few race weeks thrown in. So, I'll just alter the novice by doing the intermediate long runs. I like the idea of just adding on one mile a week and peaking at 12 rather than repeating the long run distance and maxing at 10 miles. We'll see how it goes.

Bad Intersection

I was out for my usual run, just doing an out 15 min turn around. Got back in 14:20 probably because of the adrenaline on the way back. Crossing the street, did the usual wave, make sure the car is stopping for the stop sign when he started pulling forward when I was directly in front of him. I yelled and luckily he had his window open and stopped. He even said "sorry 'bout that." So frustrating, there is a giant cross walk and stop sign and still people blow through the intersection. There is also bus stops on both sides of the street so there are always people trying to cross there.

And this is supposed to be my stress relief from screaming children. Should I mention how many times the baby has puked on me today and how many accidents the three year old had? Should I mention the amount of laundry I have had to do? The kiddos are asleep so it doesn't seem so bad now, that and I had a beer after bedtime. Cheers!

So, I only slept 90 minutes in the morning and the afternoon following work last night. But, I still managed a quick run. Did the HIIT workout again along with a warm up jog and cool down to make it about 2 1/2 miles.

Oh and yes I did workout Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Not sure how to add some sort of calendar to just post a few miles or a dvd workout. Not really wanting to make an entry each day.

Yay!

I was able to get out and run today. Only 30 minutes but it felt good. Even got a few minutes of ab work done. Looking forward to the long weekend and getting in a few more miles.

I was up with the baby so many times that I fell asleep after her early morning feeding and didn't get my morning run. So far I only snuck in a potion of a dvd. Hopefully, I'll either sneak something else in tonight or I'll just hope for some sleep tonight and run in the morning.