Well here it is middle of December and quickly approaching the holidays and what do you know we are half way done with the challenge. I will have to say I am still quite enjoying our friendly running challenge. Even with the majority of them lately being on the treadmill. I think I kind of burned out running by September and I needed something to kick start me into gear, this seemed to be just what I needed.
I have stayed pretty much on course with the times but have mixed up the runs with different workouts. I have done some pyramid runs with increasing the speed every couple of minutes, done some hill repeats and also some slow easy runs to recover. I can't remember the last time I have ran this many times at this short of a distance but it was probably when I first got into running. Back than I was happy to just finish a 5K as that was a long ways, now I am still happy to finish a 5K but for a different reason, usually I feel like I am going to puke from redlining the entire race.
This weekend was a mixed bag, I got up and rode the 6:00 am cycling class and immediately went home and worked all day until about 10:00 pm straight through the day but somehow still managed to get on the treadmill and run until for thirty minutes at a good pace. This was actually a very relaxing way to end the day and relieve the stress from working all day.
I got up Sunday, chilled and did a ton of work around the house. I made a deal with myself, I could skip swimming for the day but had to hit it hard on the treadmill later. This gave some time to hang with Landon once they got back from the grand parent's in Iowa before heading to the Endure It! Holiday Party. I ran for forty minutes with almost the entire second half at my current 5K pace finishing the last five minutes well under around a 6:30 average pace.
The hard part of the run challenge is on the horizon, the dreaded holidays. Since we go back to Iowa for the holidays it means that we will be running outdoors. I say we as I can sucker Amy into coming with as we have the built in babysitters with grand parents and it is not very often we can go for a run together.
The upside to all this is that in a couple of days I am on vacation for over two weeks and may have to dust off my trainer and actually ride somewhere besides at Endure It!. I am thinking since I haven't seen the movie The Hangover yet I may watch that and ride one day. I can only watch so much garbage from on demand.
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