Aggie_Ama,

Thanks for continuing this thread. I wanted to post, but didn't feel like starting up a new thread again. We need someone more creative to head that up so we have some nifty new titles! Any volunteers?

Anyway, did my long 18 miler last Friday morning as we left for a church retreat for the weekend later that day. It kind of sucked because I was on the pot 3x between the hours of 5am and 7:15am (wanted to be out of the house at 7am - hah!) and then another three times while out running. I don't understand as I didn't eat or drink anything before heading out. Grrrr . . . Of course, I didn't go again the rest of the weekend. Only when I'm heading out for and on a run.

Sunday evening after we got back from our trip I threw an extra 8-miler in there. I hadn't done this old favorite trail run for at least a month and I had a lot of fun doing it. I really felt how much I've improved since doing it last. Not sure if I improved on time, although I sure felt like I went faster. The "hills" hardly felt like anything anymore. Had to do one potty stop and had to wait for a 2 minute stoplight going and coming, so that's why I don't really know how fast I went. Oh well, it was fun.

Tuesday night I did speed intervals. I'm still not able to sustain at my target speed for the amount of time called for, but I am able to sustain it for longer than when I first started doing them 4 weeks ago. I'd never done speedwork before that. It's hard! Especially 'cause I pretty much loathe the treadmill.

The temp is supposed to be back up in the 80's today, so I'm not sure if I'll do my 10 mile tempo run outside or if I'll drag my butt to the gym again. I really want to do outdoors, so we'll see . . .

Four Bridges Half Marathon is this coming Sunday morning! It's still supposed to be in the 80's before dropping back down in the 70's on Monday. Let's hope the cooling trend comes a day early!


OakLeaf, Please don't be so hard on yourself. Be kind to YOU, okay?

Kimmyt, I hope you feel better soon. And good luck with the job thing. Yikes!

limewave, That is so nice that you and your hubby can run together. My hubby is allergic to running, except when playing basketball or football. He's become allergic to cycling as well (he only does it under extreme coersion, to please me). Oh well! I think I'll keep him anyway.