Crankin' I don't know how YOU do it ? ? that is a lot of activity for one week - I don't work that hard. :roll: So how do I do it? Swimming doesn't hurt or put stress on my body so that one is easy. I only spin 1 day per week and that doesn't put stress on either so quick recovery.

In the running department - I have decided it isn't worth it to push myself too hard and not give my body adequate recovery time so I am sticking w/ the program I printed off runner's world and modifying it to suit my age and fitness level. I am doing my long run on Tu, recovery run Th, tempo/speed on Sat, so I get a long recovery by Tu. And I decided Aleve is not a bad thing.

I don't like pain or discomfort so I am not one who pushes too hard. The best thing I do for my Fibro is sleep. . . . lots. go to bed early and get 9 or 10 hours at least 1 night a week, usually on a weekend - if I do that I feel much better the rest of the time. (tonight is long sleep night)

I need you to encourage me to work harder!

Urlea Great job on the long outdoor run! It warmed up nicely this afternoon to about +17 but the streets are still too bad to get any distance in

Oakleaf You were out in the frontier in Solen! I am in the north central part of the state - Minot. We are just about dead center but consider ourselves part of the west not the east.
Great job on the workout today - running to pilates and home again - you rock!

Syndirelah your run sounds fun. you rock too if you can run 8 miles and catch up w/ old friends ! I would be gasping for air

I did get out to the Y today and make an attempt at my first tempo run. I put in 5 mixed up miles.

Runners world plan was 1 mi warmup, 3mile tempo @ 11:14 pace, 1 mile cooldown.

Reality .5 mile walk, .5 mi slow run warmup on track. Moved to TM
1.3 mile @ 11:19 pace my HR was getting too high so I walked .25 @ 15:00
Ran again @ 11:19 pace for .5 mi and had to walk again @ 15:00 for .25 I decided to slow down to 11:30 pace and then was able to hold it steady for 1.5 mi - I then walked out the .25 to bring my HR down. So with all the running and walking I got 5 miles done in about 62 min which I am good to go w/ for the first time.

I did all my leg stretches then took the smallest medicine ball, crossed my legs and rolled the ball under my calves- They feel much better than they ever have after running!

Next time I am going to slow the tempo down to the 11:30 so I can hold it for the entire distance. I think I can do that.

Next scheduled run is Tuesday - 7 miles - If I run it all it will be the furthest I have ever run in my life!