Great Weather in February!

Wow, what a beautiful week weatherwise! And only 2 weeks after the biggest snowstorm to hit Springfield since I moved here. Yesterday was in the mid 60's!

Coaches gave me quite a week, but I hit every pace! Here's what I did this week:

Sun Feb 13- Long run of 17 miles:
Plan with actual paces in ():
2 mi warm up (10:45, 11:20)
4 mi @ 10:00-10:20 (10:16, 10:06, 10:11, 10:01)
6 mi @ 9:30-10:00 (9:34, 9:35, 9:37, 9:33, 9:32, 9:34)
4 mi @ 9:05-9:25 (9:06, 8:55, 8:56, 8:49) *tail wind*
1 mi cd (10:11)

Took Monday off to spend time with the hubby on our first Valentines Day as a married couple!

Tues Feb 15th- 6.2 mi recovery run, plus I felt awesome so I came home and did 45 min on the trainer.

Wed Feb 16th-Swim 1750, and ran a 9 mi tempo:
1.5 mi warm up (1 mi @ 10:34, 0.5 mi@ 10:20)
2 mi @ 8:30-8:40 (8:31, 8:29)
5 min rec (0.52 mi @ 10:02)
2 mi @ 8:20-8:30 (8:14, 8:11)
5 min rec (0.48 @ 10:30)
1 mi @ 7:55-8:10 (7:46)
1 mi rec (1 mi @ 10:36, 0.46 mi @ 10:34)

Thurs Feb 17th- Hills + Speed: I would not normally do a hill workout the day after a tempo workout, but I was off work wed night and I had to take advantage of that, so I went into town to run on the hills of the frostbite festival course:
1.5 mi wu (1 mi @ 10:46, 0.5 mi @ 11:08)
2 mi rolling hills @ 8:45-9:00 (8:42, 8:42)
1 mi @ 8:05-8:15 (8:05)
2 mi rolling hills @ 8:45-9:00 (8:42, 8:40)
1.5 mi cool down (1 mi @ 10:48, 0.52 mi @ 10:30)

Today (Fri) I'm going to do some time on the trainer, just whatever I can bear. Tomorrow looks like an easy recovery of 1 hr 10 min. I tell ya, I'm hitting these paces in the speed workouts, and I get that I can do it, but I look back a week later going "wow, did I seriously hit those 8 something paces for 5 miles of the tempo workout? crazy!"

Listened to a webinar on getting ready for the Illinois Marathon. The speaker was selling a book, so I decided to pick it up since I got it for a discount for having listened to his speech. It's called Running Anatomy by Joe Puleo and Dr. Patrick Milroy. It looks like an interesting read. Gives a lot of exercises to do and exactly which muscles those exercises target, and then tells you what it has to do with running muscles, etc. I'll let you all (haha, I think I only have one reader anyway! lol) know how it turns out!

Lata for now!

P.S. I started reading the forum on beginner triathlete that's all about the IM Louisville, looks like some really nice people and I'm already getting great info from them. I'll definitely be keeping up with that forum. Looks like there are some group training rides on the course throughout the summer, maybe I can get in on a few of those.