Week #9

Getting ready for my 10 mile run tomorrow. Freezing Gatorade & water bottles, mixing up my running sound track, working out the morning routine in my mind. The kids have a couple cousins here for a sleep over & as a treat, Sam is making pancakes & sausage for breakfast for everyone when I get back. Sweet motivation to get 10 miles out of the way! Because it really is all about the food, people.

It's been a really good week with 3 solid runs T-Th.

3 on Tuesday

7 on Wednesday

4 on Thursday

My brother (the one who just became an Ironman) contacted me after my last blog post and said he wanted to start coaching me. [cue the Hallelujah chorus!] He's got me set up with a workout log where I can log my workouts & we can communicate back & forth about how they go. He did Thursday's run with me and, among other things, we discussed making one run a week a tempo run. I learned it has to do with *lactic acid* and *lactate threshold* and maintaining that over a long period of time...basically getting faster and maintaining speed. And here I thought it had to do with being a nursing mom who was also a runner. Ahahaha. Man, I'm on a roll tonight.

Better log off before this gets really ridiculous :)