So it begins.

Well today I know I have my first official training run set up and well to be quite honest I am not looking forward to it and I am also figuring out a way to fit it into my day. I know that getting back into things is not so easy and well with the rain outside I have ZERO motivation. The only thing that keeps me motivated is that if I do not start out committed to this I will have wasted 125 bucks and well I tell you what I am not okay with that. So it is a mind over matter for today not excited not happy about it and would skip it. But that aforementioned 125 bucks would look great hanging on my wall in the form of a TV ( because that money would have gone to my new TV fund.) and if I throw my training down the tube on day one I might as well have fuel my couch potato attitude and bought the TV with my entry fee. So that being said I must make this 125 dollars worth it and maybe once I complete this I get that TV for myself. Fake it til you make it coming at you hot here is a list to make sure I keep on track ( like actually start today) and healthy. I think if I can make a list right now then I'll be pealing out of work ready for my 4x400 run (p.s. so happy that I can pound out this run in like 20 mins:):

1- Remember how I felt on mile 11 last 1/2 marathon ( trust me I don't want to go back to that place) lack of training equals lack of enjoyment and misplaced anger toward everyone in your vision.
2- Thinking that this will help me with my bikini body, like help me get one. I have a body that should be kept far from bikinis. Right now if I look at them in the store people must think I'm buying it for a friend.
3-Stress relief, I'll be happier if I am running.
4- accomplishment: there is something to be said about the way you feel when you finish your longest training run that you have ever had to do. Mine will be 7 miles when I hit 7 miles that will have been the longest run I have ever completed in my life. I did already do a 1/2 yes, but it was a walk/jog/walk.
5- I will be able to come to work and tell my boss I did run yesterday. SO TAKE THAT! My recent trend has been nope I did no running this weekend, waiting for official training date (SHOOT ITS HERE!!).
6- I'll feel Better about going out to dinner.
7- It will keep me from doing an after school nap.
8-I'll get to cross off a day on my training day schedule that's hanging in my office (cube lets be real I am no big wig here) at work.

Well that's it. Those are the only things that will get my butt moving today. some maybe silly but they work.......I hope. I shall report back tomorrow with the glorious triumphant break down of today's sad small run.
WORKOUT:
4x400- This is today (and every tuesday's) workout. Interval training designed to make me faster. How this works is I will be running the 400m at a pace that is 75 seconds faster then my HMP ( half marathon pace). Then I get my heart rate back down and once it has recovered I go into my second 400m leg. I will be doing a 10 min warm up then the work out begins and I will finish it with a cool down. These workouts will very between 400m, 800m, and 1600m. Depending on the distance of the interval that will deterime my pace 400m - 75 sec faster then HMP, 800m- 65 seconds faster then my HMP and last with the 1600m- I will be going just 65 seconds faster then my HMP. I may have to do this interval on a treadmill tonight due to the fact that I can not make it to a track before dark this evening.
until next time;
-RR-

Sorry yet again!!

I feel that I often start my post with sorry, due to the fact I blog once every 8 weeks :) Not any more!! Today I bit the bullet and have decide to eat top roman for the next 8 days while I wait for my next paycheck because I paid my entry for the Seattle Rock and Roll 1/2 Marathon. I was sacred it would sell out and after talking with my sister she said that I should just do free activities until next week and I should be fine. I have been keeping up with running about 12-15 mile a week not great but enough to where I do not feel overwhelmed by running. I am getting done with pre training this week and start speed training and tempo runs next week. Like I have mentioned before this time I will be doing just three days of running a week to make sure I stay healthy. Recently I have had a groin problem that has flared up on my last two runs ( nothing that I couldn't run through but I do not want to go down the road of injury again so I am keeping an eye on it). I will be doing this half with my sister Dawn who is a little running bean I think. By little I mean she is about 5'10'' and so she groves at a fast pace. She tells me all the time that she does not run that fast and that she would slow it down for me. We shall see how that goes when she is walking and I am at a dead sprint. Wish me luck and that I will not get sick of top roman int he next 8 days ( maybe I can snaggle me a date for one meal to save myself from the roman).

Training for Week 1:

Tuesday: 4x400
Thursday: 3 mile tempo
Saturday: 6 mile long run

Next week I will explain in detail what these trainings do and what it means for me and what my pace will be for each.