turn pain into power

The temp went up by five degrees just during this five mile recovery this morning, whew! Rivers of sweat.

Sunday RUNday 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

today was as good a day as any to rejoin the sports bra squad. hot, sunny and dripping in sweat after my workout, which featured 8x1:00 sprints at 7:30 pace, with a 1:00 walking recovery.

6/14-(11 miles) Last day of work for the week & finally a long run! Got up pretty reluctantly, but still got up at 5am to run😅 Spent the morning chasing the sunrise & my own shadow :) It’s been a while since I’ve done that. Although I was tired I love running before the rest of the world is awake (besides my dad he was awake, hi dad)

Anyway I got started & my legs were tired, but I just went out & did it. The first 4 miles I think I was sleep running I was seriously just going through the motions. I didn’t feel that bad all things considered (meaning the lack of sleep I have gotten this week & my increased activity levels) I started to just speed up naturally. Around mile 7 I started to have stomach problems, but I just pushed through. The last 3 miles were a little hard especially the second to last mile, but hey we did it! Overall a really nice long run. Everything felt good & I just went out and ran. Also my longest run since the half!! Also Negative splits if you ignore the 10th mile!!! (I was having some stomach issues at that point) My splits were & my overall pace was 9:03 so a real solid run! I’m glad to see I still have endurance after last weeks disaster of a long run. 11 miles done before 7am isn’t half bad any day:) And yes I am seen drinking chocolate milk post run in that picture haha

Breakfast was yogurt & blueberry oatmeal (w/ chocolate chips, honey & raspberries) AND some scrambled eggs :) SO good & I was ready for the work day. Today was a long day at work oh my gosh. My kids would not listen to me at all & it was extremely tiring. There were literally multiple fights between kids & just such a long day. So when I got home I was exhausted. I decided to have a yogurt bowl because like I said super hungry. I was supposed to go swimming, but I was seriously exhausted & just very over tired that I ended up skipping my after noon swim. I felt so tired I almost felt sick. Just all thjs activity and not enough sleep catching up to me.

After that I ended up laying down for an hour because I was so so tired. I had been moving all day and I just needed to rest for a bit. I’m so excited to go to sleep tonight😂 Dinner was some mashed sweet potato’s, slow cooker chicken sandwiches & salad :) Then we went on a walk, I did some math, ate some fro yo (lol I need to restrain myself), stretched & went to bed. Long long day, but tomorrow I have off yay!! I have a run, swim & core planned tomorrow:) I’m mostly looking forward to that swim…

Snacks: pre run: granola bar, post work: yogurt bowl w/ cereal & berries, desert: cereal & fro yo hehe