I am capable of a lot more...

than I give myself credit for.

6 miles today and I feel great. Ran this evening, air was cool, light breeze... got a little darker than I'm comfortable with at the end, but that's just because the streetlights were so few and far between. I felt like I could have gone another 2 miles easily, and possibly another 3 or 4 with some nutrition and effort.

6.27 miles in 1:03:40 - average pace 10:09 - 752 calories
mile 1 - 9:25 - WHOAH nelly, slow it down a bit lady!
mile 2 - 10:21 - That's better, nice and easy... waved at a couple of kids in their yard.
mile 3 - 10:23 - Nice and consistant, feeling good, lots of traffic tho.
mile 4 - 10:25 - Good good... starting to get a little dark, but hey, here's Allanis to keep me motivated!
mile 5 - 10:21 - Damn I'm consistant... only one lap left, I could keep going for hours... lets push it a bit!
mile 6 - 9:46 - Hell yeah!!! The mile alarm on my Forerunner went off just as I entered my neighborhood... I stopped briefly to look at my stats and then started the timer back up and jogged the rest of the way home.
mile 6.25 - 2:49 - took it easy, waved at the neighbors. pace was 10:39.

My knees are a bit angry at me... I'm icing them and I popped a couple ibuprofen with my first glass of water when I came inside.

I seriously feel like I could have gone another mile or two... Total running milage for this week is 12.75, but it should have been 14.5m. I skipped 3 workouts this week and that pisses me off. I missed mondays weights, the 2 mile run on Wednesday, and my cross-training yesterday, that sucks ass!!! Next week should be fun tho because my goal is to not miss any workouts!!! Here's the plan:

Monday - full body weights (low weight, high rep)
Tuesday - 3.5m (in the morning)
Wednesday - 2m (in the morning) + Yoga
Thursday - 3.5m (in the morning) + Legs/knee strenghtening(squats, lunges, ham curls, etc)
Friday - REST
Saturday - 45 minutes biking
Sunday - 7 miles

Now I need to charge Lauren and Millie (my Forerunner and Mini iPod) to prep for the week... nighty night!

Posted by Lexy at August 29, 2004 09:53 PM