Heather hits the 8's!

Today I hit the 8 minute mark! Woo hoo! My plan of getting up before work is still not working well (ie at all) and I've been dealing with some nasty headaches. However I still want to try it. At some point.

February 28, 2009
7:30 am
Treadmill
2.56 K (1.59 miles)
-20 C (-4 F)
2 sets of 8 minutes followed by 1 minute walking; 2 minutes walking and 5 minute warm up and cool down
Felt ok actually. Considering I didn't eat so well yesterday and I haven't ran all week.
Watched Alias S2 (not sure what I'm going to do when I'm done this season!)

Thursday February 12, 2009

I was a good girl and ran after work today. YaY me! Also I needed the stress relief. Believe me.
Anyhow that's my last set of 5's. And I was cruising on this run. It felt fantastic. Which is kind of amazing because I didn't have a good sleep last night.

Thursday February 12, 2009
5:45 pm (late!)
Treamill
2.55 K (1.58 miles) (don't ask me why the distances are different - no idea)
-10 C (14 F)
3 sets of 5's with 1 minute walking plus 2 minutes running. And 5 minutes warm up and cool down
Felt great. Good stress relief. Was pretty easy the entire time
Watched Alias S2

Onto the 6's! :)

Saturday January 3, 2009

Well I slept in until 11 am today. I am so going to be hurtin' on Monday when I go back to work. The thing is my cat slept with me all night and she rarely does that so I wanted to take advantage of it. Maybe she's worried I will turn her in for a better model. (Kidding!) I'm not sure why she doesn't sleep with me anymore but she doesn't and it sucks.

But I did run. I figured I was already late getting going so what's an hour added onto it.

Temperature: -24 C (-11.2 F) with windchill of -33 C (-27.4) It went down to -35 C (-31 F) last night. Brrrrr cold. See good thing I have a treadmill.

Saturday Jan 3
11:00 am
Treadmill
2.2 K (1.36 miles)
5 sets of 3 with 1 minute walk breaks. 5 minute cool down but only 2 minutes warm up
Felt ok. The muscle in the back of my thigh is sore tho for some reason.
Watched Alias S2, Episode 4 (and the last bit of Ep 3)

note: this is my third straight day running. Ok it's not much but for me it's pretty good. My plan is to continue next week with the 5 sets of 3 and then the week after increase to the 4 minute with 1 minute walk break (I think it's 4 times). I'm not sure how I'm going to work the logistics of running before work as I take a very long time to get ready but I should be able to do it. I mean other people do it. I'll worry about what to do if I have to shovel when it happens. I guess I could wait until I get home to shovel. hmmm.