Day 193, 172 To Go

July 12, 2013

Happy Friday peoples!  It was a long day at work but I am finally done and ready to enjoy my weekend with Honey and the hell spawn I call my children.  I don't have anything special planned other than a hard workout on Sunday, some friends coming by on Sunday and then of course a pay TV marathon of Dexter, Tru Blood and The Newsroom!

I would actually like to go see a movie this weekend, but I am about 150% sure Honey would not want to see Pacific Rim.  This is the movie where giant robots fight giant alien monsters.  How could you go wrong with that?  Not only that, it is directed Guillermo del Toro of Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth fame.  Hell, I would pay double to see this potential piece of crap movie based on the director alone!  Alas, I will have to go by myself as I can't see a way to convince Honey to go see it.  I would have to promise to see 10 chick flicks in a row to work that one out.  Oh well.

So, I'll stick to my run tonight and maybe we can go out to get something to eat.  I'm not talking fancy restaurant food...more like fast food like Chick Fil-a.  Yeah, their CEO is a gay bashing bastard and I don't care for his politics or for the fact that he closes all his restaurants on Sunday (what the hell...why can't I eat chicken on Sunday!) but I do like their spicy chicken sandwich!  Mmmm, mmmm...

Here are Honey and my numbers:

Time: 25:00

Distance: 2.05 miles

Pace: 12:12/m

Max Pace: 8:26/m

Calories:226
Avg HR: 113

Max HR: 129

Ah, I almost forgot!  Today, I tortured Honey on our run with an interval workout.  First, we ran for 5 minutes to warm up, then we did 10 repeats of 1 minute fast, 1 minute recovery.  I had her running about a 10:15 mile pace for her fast repeats.  Occasionally she ended up sub 10, but I tried to keep her consistent at around 10:15. 

She looked like she wanted to quit after the first one, but she held on for the entire 10 reps!  As she told me later, she wanted to drop to the floor and pass out about halfway through, but she didn't (although that would have been damn funny!) 

When doing intervals, the key is to be consistent with your pace and to make sure you pick the right pace.  If you can't keep up the pace for each of your intervals, you went to fast.  If you get to the end and you are not so tired you want to puke, you went too slow.  Ok, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but you should be pretty worn out.  You don't want to feel like you could have done a few more or you weren't pushing hard enough.

I told her she was going to do this every week and she threatened to never run with me again.  Stay tuned...

Run for Life!!