I Have The Need For Speed!!

Friday work out: Ran 8.06 miles in 1:17:56/9:40 pace, then a 7 mile bike ride as John's water support because he decided he wanted to try running his distance run outside at 6:30PM in the 90+ degree heat...what?!  I had to be the watergirl!
Monday speed: 3-1 mile repeats with a warm up and cool down and 2 min walking RI between each mile: 5.67 miles in 50:02.  I was pretty impressed with my speed yesterday.  It pretty much made my day!  Running followed by back and abs.

What a difference certain aspects of training makes.  I've mentioned before my dissatisfaction with our local YMCA, well, we dumped it yesterday and I went back to Gold's...which I love.  It's not quite as convenient but it's pretty close to work and it gives me energy.  I'm focused during my workouts and get in there and knock it out successfully.  I don't wander around in there, I just get it done.  Plus, they have much better equipment! I'm so happy to be back!  I also got an awesome price on my membership.  I'm pretty sure the guy on the phone misquoted me, but I wasn't going to pay tons of money every month to go to the gym in this economy.  So, I got $1 enrollment and a cheap monthly rate.  I was thrilled!  We're now saving 63% on our gym membership now that John's back at PF and I'm at Gold's!

Today is John's birthday!!!  Yay!  Happy 28th Birthday to my hubby!!!

I really, REALLY want to run the Rock n Roll Philadelphia 1/2 marathon

but John said I have to wait until next year.  I feel like I need to get in lots of races during training because:

1. Last time, I trained for 8 months until our first race and it burned me out since I didn't have milestones along the way

2. I feel like I waste mileage when I can run those distances easily and I don't take advantage of it

I'm still working on him.  I LOVE Philly!  I would get to see:

All on the race course...talk about a good price for a tour of the city!  If I could only get John to agree!

What race are you dying to run??

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