On Thursday I had planned on running at the track, but I woke up in the morning and I just couldn't do it. I was way too tired and decided to the day off from exercise. On Friday I biked the stationary bike for 42 minutes. I opted to sleep the extra hour and bike on my own on the stationary bike versus going to early morning Group Ride. I still got a good workout and I felt like I needed that extra hour of sleep. On Saturday I got my 17 pre=birthday run in! I started at 5:25 AM and finished at 8:20 AM. I stopped at Safeway to use the bathroom, but I didn't hit many lights so I am guessing I did about 10 minute miles. I choked on quite a few hills and couldn't make it up without walking. The last two miles I did 30 second - 1 minute walk breaks. I felt like I was walking a ton until I realized I was right on schedule time wise. I think I am generally faster than I used to be but I cannot maintain that speed when going up hills. I did not plan on walking nearly as much as I did. In the end I think my walk breaks were really short--though at the time they felt long. On Sunday (yesterday) I ran 8 miles at the track doing another downward ladder workout. I ran great and didn't feel like I had to walk at any point. Even with all the running I am not all that sore today.
For running this week I have to 5, 9 and 18 and then I get two kick back weeks in a row. I have to figure out when to do the 9. Because I don't like doing the medium and long run back to back like I did this weekend. I would rather avoid that. I am running into scheduling issues with Rob being in meetings all weekend long. I am not busy but he is.
Eating I have been doing a decent job sticking within the calories. I have not weighed myself in a couple of days. We have pretty healthy meals planned this week.
I had a couple good nights of sleep but last night I slept restless again. I woke up a couple of times. I could not get comfortable. I was having bizarre dreams. I had a Mike's Hard lemonade at 8:00 PM and that might have affected it. No caffeine though except at lunch.
I think we're getting rain this week==we've been so spoiled with good running weather.
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