Climb the Ladder

Thanks for all the nice comments regarding my 5 mile PR. I'm feeling really good about it and based on the outcome of that race, I think I'm going to go all out at Shamrock Marathon in March. Can you imagine if I BQ again?? What obnoxious comment will my anonymous commenter think up then?? I hope I get to find out. Here are my stats from the race:

Overall: 145 / 1147

Female: 27 / 537

Age group (F30-34): 6 / 97

Anyway, I woke up Sunday morning feeling the hills from the race in my quads but it actually felt good to be a little sore. I knew I raced hard and put in a good effort. I followed up the race with a 17 mile run on Sunday. I had 18 on the schedule but between being tired from early wake up calls all week and sore from the race, when I hit my car at 17 miles I called it quits. It was a great 17 miles, though and I rewarded myself for a full week of hard workouts with a complete rest day yesterday. But today I was up and at 'em again at 5am for an 8 mile run with a "climb the ladder" workout. I had so much fun with this run and climbing the ladder made the run go by so fast. Here's the workout: after I warmed up for 2 miles, I ran 1 minute at my 10k pace (7:24). Jog (9:05) for a minute, then 2 minutes at 7:24, jog for a minute, then 3 minutes at 7:24, then take it back down to 1 minute. So, it looks like this: 1 min 10k/1 min jog/2 min 10k/1 min jog/3 min 10k/1 min jog/2 min 10k/1 min jog/1 min 10k/1 min jog...repeat. The 7:24 pace felt great and I was very comfortable at it. Breathing and form were fine and when the workout was all said and done, I wanted more!!

I was hoping to have my giveaway up by now but I'm not quite ready. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have it posted. Stay tuned!

Here's my schedule for the week:
Mon - off
Tues - 8 mi, climb the ladder
Wed - 4 mi (lift)
Thurs - 4 mi (plus cardio)
Fri - 20 mi
Sat - 8 mi
Sun - off (cardio/lift)