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Crying Uncle and Boston Week 10 Recap

March 14, 2012 by Kristy 14 Comments

On Monday I posted this on Pinterest (please follow me and then teach me all about Pinterest because I have no clue):

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I follow this about 99.9% of the time but it’s ironic that on Tuesday morning I crapped out on my last tempo mile.  The plan was to run 10 miles with 4 miles around MP and 4 miles around 7:45 pace.  The 4 MP miles were easy, and we (my neighbor was running with me) averaged around 8:05 pace…so faster than MP (maybe that was my downfall?).  The next miles (7:45 pace) were harder but doable.  We came up on a section of trail that was flooded so we moved over to run on the muddy grass and it slowed us down.  Once I transitioned back onto the paved trail I could not pick up the pace again.  My legs didn’t want to move any faster.  I cried uncle and did a 2-mile cool down instead.  At least I was able to get in 3 miles at 7:45ish pace.

I’m not a robot and have to throw in the towel sometimes.  It did bother me that I didn’t get that last mile in but in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter.

So I can’t NOT talk about The Bachelor season finale.  I can’t believe I gave up an hour of sleep to watch it (on the plus side, I need to visit Switzerland immediately!).  I kinda had a feeling he would choose Courtney.  Courtney did seem really excited about the ring – errr, proposal.  “It feels so heavy on my hand, Ben.”  That’s a completely normal statement seconds after getting engaged, right?

Boston Week 10 Recap
MON:  8 easy
TUE:  11 tempo with 10 miles at MP – this was an awesome, confidence-boosting run!
WED:  8 easy
THU:  8 easy with 5 long hill repeats
FRI:  rest
SAT:  15 with 13 miles at MP – another good run!
SUN:  rest

50 miles total and the taper is within my reach!  2 1/2 weeks of hard work left and then I get to rest my legs.  I really can’t believe Boston will be here so soon.  I’m starting to freak out a bit and get excited!

Do you give up easily on training runs or races?  I don’t on training runs but if I’m having a bad race day and I know I won’t PR, I will sometimes throw in the towel.  It’s a terrible habit thinking that a PR is the most important thing.  You can learn so much from bad races. 

If you watched The Bachelor, gimme your thoughts! 

Friday Favorites

October 14, 2011 by Kristy 15 Comments

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I’m bringing back Friday Favorites…at least this week anyway.  Months ago I ran out of things that could be “favorite” worthy so I stopped posting about it.  Matt suggested Friday Rants, where I could probably go on and on, but I thought that would be too negative.  Here goes…

Chocolate lava cake with vanilla ice cream
Delicious!  One of my favorite desserts, aside from my beloved DQ Blizzard.   And it MUST be served with vanilla ice cream…whipped cream would be nice too.

A larger scoop of ice cream is necessary

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Deep tissue massage
I got my first deep tissue massage last night and it was heavenly.  In the past I stuck to the traditional Swedish massage but for my hamstring’s sake I went with deep tissue.  It was fabulous but the massage therapist could have dug a little deeper, especially on my right hammie, hip, and glute.  I wanted it to hurts-so-good.  Unfortunately, it’s an expensive favorite too 🙁

Pinterest
I’m not crafty or creative in the least so it’s a shock that I enjoy perusing Pinterest.  I don’t even use it to its full potential but I love just looking at all the home ideas.  We are re-doing both of our bathrooms and it’s great to visualize different colors and ideas.  Using door knobs as towels hooks?  Genius (pic here if you think it sounds weird)!  Search on “running” and you may lose your mind.  So many great quotes.  A few of my favorites…


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