Three Things That Suck...Three Things That Rock

August 11-17
Total Miles: 25
Death Toll: 0
Injuries: Fluginator still out

It's week three of training, so now seemed like an appropriate time to give the list of the top three thinks that suck about running and the top three things that rock. We'll start with the positives and then move into the negatives, before we delve into how we progressed this week.


Three things that ROCK:
1) I love the shapely and muscular "gams" I'm seeing from all this running and am really looking forward to eventually having an a$$ so tight you could bounce a quarter off of it!
2) The feeling of accomplishment at the end of a run (big or small) and the calories burned!
3) When the "bee-ach" (as we call her) on the NikePlus on the iPod says in a British accent "Congratulations, that was your best run yet." Yippee! We get very excited!

Three things that SUCK:
1) What is the point of having great legs, if they're black and blue with bruises; all the runners claim "you must be kicking yourself." Helllloooo, I've think I've kicked myself enough times during dance that I would feel it. With this activity, I wake up with a new bruise everyday and have no clue how it got there.
2) I'm washing my running clothes every three days and it's ridiculous! I finally went and bought some more so I can maybe just do a "run wash" once a week. Not to mention, the funky, smell that fills the room as I peel the sweaty clothes off!
Gross!
3) How the pro runners like to mess with our novice minds about the "lube." We think there's merit to "lubing" up to avoid chaffing; but we're hearing about some interesting places to "lube" and are not quite sure if they're accurate.

So, onto this weeks training. I'm going to start with today's run b/c it was a big run for us and work our way backwards.

We went for broke today, seven miles. We were stoked b/c we did seven miles in an hour and 10 minutes, averaging 10 minute miles. We were thrilled and felt moderately good the entire time. We were both tired at the end, don't get me wrong, but we did exactly what Runner World, U.S. (yes, we got the correct version- woo hoo) and ran at a "conversational pace." We then treated ourselves to breakfast at Sweet Mama's and boy was my breakfast burrito with home made salsa the BOMB! ThompsonWhoDoesNotRun had a healthier wrap, but whatever, I was totally craving the burrito!

Saturday was a rest day b/c Friday was the hardest run we've had to date and we had no idea why. So hard in fact, that her husband had to ask what was wrong as we were almost passed on in the drive way trying to recoup. We didn't even run that far. We did a 5K in 28 minutes, averaging a 5:43 min/km pace (I can't translate km to miles so by all means someone, be my guest).

Thursday was five miles, in 38 minutes with a 9:09 min/mile! This was a good run b/c the "bee-ach" came on and said "Congratulations, that was your best time/mile yet." Yippee!

Wednesday was a rest day. Boy did we need it. B/c we both had outings Tuesday evening and threw back a few. But the way we saw it, we earned them with our Tuesday morning run AND I took ballet that night (not taught, took). So I got in a little extra exercise and I know ThompsonWhoDoesNotRun even had a gym workout, so she got an extra workout as well. So we earned those cocktails! Anyway, I digressed, and Tuesday we did 5.16 miles, 49:57 min and 9:40 min/mile pace.

We started the week off with five miles as well. Averaging 48 minutes with 9:38 min/mile. Monday was a pretty good run since Sunday was a rest day as well.

So, all in all, it was a good week. We start again tomorrow morning with an EASY run...thank goodness b/c my knees are killing me and my bedroom smells like a chest of moth balls from the Icy Hot.

Until next time...
Mandy T (we have new names by the way but ThompsonWhoDoesNotRun will be blogging about that)