9/16/08 Girlfriend half training

This morning was tough for me. Tuesday is my interval run and I kind of have a love hate for that so if I can I try my hardest to get out of it. I didn't arrive to the gym until about 6 am and guess what? when I got there all the treadmills were full. If this wasn't a great for me just go back home and get in the bed I don't know what was. Eventually, which means about 10 minutes later a treadmill opened up. The guy didn't clean it off or anything but I assumed he was finished.

I started my actually interval run about 6:25, gessh that is really late for me but since I am here now I am going to get it out my to do list. Once I got on the treadmill I warmed up from about 3 minutes at about 4.0 speed, so the warming up was over and I had to take off. My speed ranged from 6.0 just starting off to 7.5 and my fastest speed. This morning I was only able to get in one hill for five minutes. Maybe tomorrow because group power I will do a hill workout who knows I never seem to have the time anymore but if i put this on my calendar maybe it will motivate me to just do it!


I was reading an article in runners world magazine that said we train our legs but we also need to train our brains to go fast. That is what I am trying to do train my brain how to run fast towards the end of the workout because for some reason I slow down drastically towards the end of the race events that I have participate in. I am going to try to get more interval/speed workouts in, to see if that will help me.