7/9

Quick easy 3 this morning; now headed up to Lake Michigan beaches to meet extended family. 30 for the week and a whopping 35 for the month. Lots of leg pain after yesterday's speedwork; massage, compression socks, and Tylenol finally made it bearable enough to sleep.

7/8

8 miles, aerobic pace with 2-minute HMP intervals every 8 minutes (10:29/mile). Negative split and did NOT have to stop once for my kids (ah, the magic of going to the library right before my run!!). Was hoping to get in another 3 but ran out of time before we had to leave, so I'll nab those tomorrow. Enjoyed this run so much more than the others this week--no cramping at all and is the pace that I would normally do my LRs at (at least the ones where I'm not hitting MP miles) so it felt much more "normal."

7/7

Thought about running today so I wouldn't have to run before I drive up to Michigan Saturday, but basically my mantra today is "everything hurts and I'm tired," so I took my normal Thursday SRD and did yoga. Hopefully I'll feel less achy tomorrow and be able to semi-enjoy my run tomorrow (I am SO SO sick of the TM but this weather pretty much guarantees passing out if I run outside). Wonder of wonders, I made it through my entire yoga DVD without having to stop once, which is a miracle since I was watching my friend's 3 kids this morning and so there were 8 kids playing around me. Now just hoping that the forecasted thunderstorm hits so that I have an excuse to lounge around my house instead of taking everyone to the pool. :-)

7/6

Easy 6 and yoga. I hate how long it takes to do runs at easy pace. Can't wait until I can do sprint intervals again!

7/5; 28 weeks

6 on TM; planned as easy run but had enough kid interruptions the first 2 miles that I really had to crank it up the last 4 miles in order to finish by the time I'd promised to take kids to the pool. Last mile at HMP; hopefully I don't feel this too much later.

7/4

7 in a progression run with HMP-intervals. Midterms this week for the summer class I'm teaching at Purdue, which equates to my worst grading week, so I probably won't get many miles in this week (also another weekend away visiting my sister who is moving to Hong Kong). SRD yesterday and didn't end up running Sat after 9 miles walking in Chicago then driving home. Confession: I am feeling pretty darn tired and that's not good headed into this week! But I do feel better post-run so that's good...now to cram in an hour of grading before the holiday festivities start.

7/1

Yoga and SRD yesterday (hahaha...rest...prepped for a party to which we'd invited 23 families).

100 for June.

5 today; easy for first 3.7 and gradually cranked it up the last 1.3 to end with HMP. No cramps! Now off to Chicago for a quick overnight...we'll see how many miles I log walking. If I get home early enough I'll try to squeeze in a run late tomorrow night.