REVAMPED: Week 8: Friday - Rest Day (Catching up)

Soooooo, wow, it feels like ages since I have blogged about my journey to Boston Qualify and hopefully enter the 2015 Boston Marathon!  I have decided that going forward I will write the activity called upon from Hal Hidgon's training schedule to keep it front of mind; e.g. Friday - Rest day!  (which technically is today yet I will be doing my 5 miles today as I did not do it on Tuesday due to Husband's birthday! - I am still a work in progress and yes I know I have to stick to schedule and will continue to try :) )and the correlating week which I am on.

These past few days have been met with hit and misses and weather conditions have not been ideal for outdoor running and other issues that I have to seriously get a handle on....such as cutting out for my lunch to go run and earmarking time out during the weekends to complete my workouts. I hate leaving my son to workout and its definitely hard putting running infront of him yet I know that once I firmly ink in my time to run...such at 7am to 9am Sunday - Long Run...I wont feel so bad as once I have accomplished it I have the rest of the day to be with him and won't feel like crap for not completing my workout.

So to back track, two weekends ago Saturday and Sunday before MLK, on Saturday I did do 3 miles at the gym yet don't have a picture to show for it.  The Sunday before MLK birthday - I did not head out for the 8 mile and I am definitely behind in my long runs. The week of MLK was wacky! and I should really do week 7 over again.  I did manage to on Saturday the 40 minute fartek on the treadmill yet started out really slow - I had to stop and restart after 10 minutes and the below picture is my last 30 minutes of the run.

On January 27th, Monday, I did 3 miles at the gym.  I felt like though I have missed alot of workout the time that I had put in was showing as I was able to accomplish the 3 miles at a 9:30min/mile.

January 28th was husband's birthday and I just did not want to do a lunchtime workout as we went out for dinner that night!  Probably one of my first real legitimate excuses to switch out a workout and I will be make up my 5 miles today (Friday, January 31 - rest day:)

On Wednesday January 29th I was to do 6x400 - this is really track work and should be done on a track. Yet since I have not found a track I do this on the treadmill. Since I missed last Wednesday's first legitimate track workout I ended up doing 6x200 on treadmill.  200 is equated to the first quarter mile or up to .12 miles on the treadmill while 400 is equated to .25 on treadmill - well that is how I do it as there are about 1600 meters in a miles.  So on Wednesday I ran at race pace (8.34min/mile) up to 6 times for every quarter mile.

Yesterday called for 3 miles and I just did not do it - issue - did not want to deal with the gym at lunch and after seeing Enzo last night, could not tear myself away from him when I got home - (work in progress) absolutely no excuse for this! :(

Every workout should piggyback the next and I am only get minimal results since I have not been as consistent as I have wanted to be.  I almost want to start again yet will keep pushing though as I know I am strong enough to complete the remaining weeks.

Goal from here on in is to make sure to stick to schedule --- that is it - only goal is to STICK TO SCHEDULE....SO SIMPLE YET SO LOADED .... 

In transformation,

Yvonne