Day 139, 226 To Go

May 19, 2013

I have heard through the grapevine that a few of my faithful readers have tried to sign up to follow my blog, but have been unable to do so for one reason or another.  You would think Google, the King of the Internet, would make their blog site a little more user friendly.  Then again, are you using Google+?  Yeah, that's what I though.

In the (self) interest of helping you all out, I have put together some instructions on how to do this.

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It's that simple.  Hopefully it works for you!!

Now, to my Sunday.  I'll stop complaining about my three gorgeous babies for one day because I am in such a good mood.  They weren't too bad today anyway.  Sure, they got super early wanting a bottle and then ended up waking up for breakfast late which threw the entire day out of whack.  In spite of this, I did get to go out for my run at around 7:30pm.  It was still light out when I started, at least.

My plan for the day was to increase my time by 10%.  Since I ran 60 minutes last week, I decided to run 66 minutes this week.  It felt like 20 minutes I felt so good!!

I don't know what was going on, but my entire run was easy, peasy.  Not only did I not get a lot of sleep, I also had an extremely unhealthy lunch of Burger King complete with Whopper, fries and way too much soda.  I should have been dragging...but no.  Halfway into my run I felt like I could go on forever. 

I stopped for a few seconds here and there to stretch my foot and to adjust this and that, but other than that, I was cruising.  On my way back I stopped at 7/11 to refill my Gatorade.  Since I had only about 2 miles to go, I figured I would pick up the pace a bit.  Up until that point, I had stayed within my aerobic zone and I was still able to push 8 - 8:30 pace.  Even when I topped out of the zone, I felt like I was still in it. 

I pushed hard the last couple of miles so I would end up using all my energy, but when I got home, I felt like I could have gone on and on!  Yeah!  I love it!

Here are my numbers:

Time: 1:06:00

Distance: 7.75 miles

Pace: 8:32/m

Max Pace: 5:53/m

Calories: 992
Avg HR: 143

Max HR: 168

That is a max distance since I have been in Florida, I believe, and an 8:32 pace is my best for a long run since I started this journey of running every day.  I stayed in my zone except at the end too.  So it was still a LSD (long slow distance) run for all intents and purposes.  Picking up the pace to race pace at the end of a long run is a good way to train yourself to run when you are tired...even though I wasn't tired!

My lap times were 9:04, 8:53, 8:20, 8:34, 8:49, 8:31, 8:04 & 7:47. 

I know it is only about 8 miles, but if I can keep this up and stretch this pace out to 26.2 in my Ironman...well, maybe I CAN make Kona!  Maybe...still a LOOOOONNNNG way to go on the run and even longer on the bike.  Still, I was encouraged.

I did miss Honey on my long run rolling beside me.  I hope next week she is by my side again...and since she will be home on Monday, I bet she will be.  Next week will be even longer...say about 73 minutes!  Can you do it Honey?!  I hope so!!

Run (roll) for Life!!