Every day is a new day

After two days off I felt like moving!  So I did a mile warm up then ran the 5K CC course in 24:02(7:45 pace) then did a mile cool down.  Felt really good to move the legs today. Snowy and in the low 30's.

Did not have much time today so had to keep the run to 5 miles.  Thought a progression run would make the best use of the limited time.

Miles were 9:00, 8:30, 8:00, 7:40, 7:30 and the last .5 at 7:00.

Pretty short workout but felt good.

Ok I decided it was time to refocus and start training for the next event.  I have decided to run Avenue of the Giants May 1 running the marathon( my first) and make it a Boston qualifier( at least hope to).  My 1:44 half last week translates to a 3:39, assuming I train for the longer distance over the next 12 weeks.  Since this will be trying to qualify for 2012 Boston I can get in with 3:45:59 since I will be 55.  All I need is 8:37 pace. 

Got back on treack with a 9 mile easy run at about 9:15 pace.  Cold and really icy so was not the best run I've ever had but got me going so was fine.

Ran down to the gym and then did an hour on the treadmill.  Picked up the pace to around 8 minute pace for the last 1.5 miles.

Then tried out a water conditioning class at the gym.  Actually was fun but I only did it for 30 miutes since I had just finished running.  Looks like a low impact way to get in a two a day without extra stress on the body.

Ran to the gym then did 7.3 at 8:57 pace on the treadmill.  Felt slow today and the run seemed way harder than easy pace but I got it done and feel fine this evening.

Snowing hard today so a long run outside was out of the question.  Went to the gym and did 12.4 miles on the treadmill at 9:05 pace.  Started to get dehydrated and since the gym was full I did not want to lose the treadmill by stopping for water.  Ran out of gas due to the6 or more pounds of water loss and called it a day.