Weekend & Running Thoughts

I spent Sunday doing this. That would be sun bathing.

At Becky’s aunts pool. And it was awesome! We also ate kale pesto rice pasta and fruit salad and drank beer while gossiping for hours : )

Awhile later, Dave and I felt motivated to run. {We also ran 3.1 miles on Saturday : ) } Well Sunday, we ran-walked-took-pictures around our towns State Park. It was getting close to dusk so I took some pretty photos with my phone. I love our park and I feel fortunate there is a beautiful place to run and explore a short couple miles from my house.

Then I had some fun with shadows. I wish my legs were this long!

Dave and I ran-walked for about 40 minutes. No idea how far we went but probably around 3 miles.

In connection with my previous post about Lake Waban and Lauren’s post about the power of place, I want to take advantage of this beautiful park so close to my house more often. It was gorgeous!!!

I got over to the gym today and yesterday during work. It was glorious considering I probably haven’t been to the gym in weeks. Which means, I have now ‘run’ 4 days in a row and I’m thinking that I DO want to run the half marathon I am supposed to run with college roomie Lindsay and Theodora. The race is August 14th which means I have a little over 4 weeks to get half marathon ready. Seems kinda crazy huh? Even crazier… I’m leaning towards running a ten-mile race on Saturday even though I haven’t run over 6.20 miles since April 18th. I was saying to Dave on our run that now I understand why some of you guys run back-to-back marathons. It is not fun to be out of shape! And I’m determined to get back into shape! (I think…)

4 Day in a Row ‘Runs’
Sunday- 3.1 miles at 12:30 pm with my husband. We ran hard and then walked hills. It was hot!
Sunday- 3 miles around our towns State Park. Definitely a walk-run.
Monday- 4 miles on the treadmill during lunch- I started slow then increased my pace each mile. The last mile I sprinted 2×400 at 9.0mph with 400 rest.
Tuesday (today!)- Speed Workout- 1 mile warmup then repeat the following 3-6X

400M at 5K pace (with 400 recovery)

300M at 1 mile pace (with 300 recovery)

200M at a little faster than 1 mile pace (with 200 recovery)

100M almost ‘all out’ (with 100 recovery)

Since I did this on the treadmill during lunch, I didn’t have the time to run more than 3 sets. But I think I did pretty well in those three sets! I also did a lot of math and counting of peg marks on the oval lap on the treadmill to figure out what 300 and 100 meters is. If you are interested, there are 32 marks in a lap on the treadmill. 16 marks is 200 meters. 24 marks is 300 meters. 8 marks is 100 meters.