Day 191, 174 To Go

July 10, 2013

Hump day!  That's right folks...Wednesday is the hump in the middle of the week we have to get over to get to Friday and a couple of days of sanity.  It felt like a really big hump to get over, but I made it.  Only two more days and its the weekend and I get paid too.  This is a good thing because I am out of money and I need to buy food!  I am tired of pasta.  ; o )

The good thing about eating pasta every night is that its like I am carbo loading every night.  I felt pretty good today at the onset of my run, so I decided to push the pace a bit.  Once I started, though, I realized I had somewhat misjudged my readiness for a fast day.  Nonetheless, I push forward and finished a faster run.

It was pretty humid so when I got home it looked like I had gone for a swim, not a run.  I was able to run 3.22 miles and burn 421 calories!  The question is, will I benefit from the calories burned, or will I eat ice cream tonight?

Who am I kidding...I'll eat the damn ice cream.  Hell, I'd eat it even if I didn't go for a run, so at least I probably end up on the + side since I burned so many calories and I probably won't eat that much ice cream.  Probably...

Here are my numbers:

Time: 25:00

Distance: 3.22 miles

Pace: 7:46/m

Max Pace: 7:01/m

Calories: 421
Avg HR: 151

Max HR: 166

I didn't pay much attention to my HR today, but from about 10 minutes on I was in my anaerobic zone.  I was pushing my lactate threshold today hard, so it was a good workout and something I need to do every week and something I haven't done in a while.

No Honey today...she was burnt out from two days in a row of running.  Maybe she'll come tomorrow.  I think the least she could have done was put on her rollerblades, but I think she had a lame excuse for not going.  I wanted to run fast, so I didn't argue.  Sometimes, you just gotta get out there and run and you can't wait for anyone or anything.  You just have to, as Nike would say, do it.  So I did.  I'll do it again tomorrow too!

Run for Life!!