My boss, saved us in our time of need, reenactment.

(Top, shorts, socks, shoes, headband that I basically wear every day and therefore wash every day because my skin lady told me it was giving me acne)

Please note:  The above picture is a reenactment of a mile repeat.  There wasn’t a smile from me during our mile repeats, even though forcing a smile would have definitely helped trick my body.

I think it’s the workouts that you really don’t want to do that make you feel the most proud about afterward.  Between sick kids (Andrew was home with them in the morning) and PMS, I did not want to do this workout.  But I did, and I felt prouder than ever at the end.

We did a 2.5-mile w/u and then got into a 7-mile tempo @ 6:51 average.  We did this loop on a hilly one, which felt new because we do so much of our speed on flat roads these days.  We then had a recovery (supposed to be 4 minutes but ended up longer because we needed the restroom) and then started our mile repeats.  My friends running Mesa did 3 of them, and I did 5.  The recoveries for the mile repeats were 90-120 seconds; for some of those, I jogged, and for some of them, I walked.

We decided to do our mile repeats at the track so a big group could all be there and work together regardless of their paces.  When we tried a loop on the original track we were planning, it was way too icy, so we did our first mile repeat to a different track.  How lucky to have another one not that far away!

This one was ice-free, also open to the public, and saved us in our time of need.

One of the many joys of getting a new watch or resetting your watch—> It makes you feel so cool! Look at that trophy; I felt like a true winner seeing that pop-up when I saved my workout.

In my opinion, peak week training uniform should be sweats and only sweats when out of your running clothes (if your lifestyle/boss permits).

Beck is my current boss, and he said he would let it slide this week.

Brooke still wasn’t feeling well, so we spent a good amount of time watching Bluey.  Brooke was craving Great Harvest bread, and so Andrew picked it up for us on his way home from meetings.

Later on I got outside with the littles.

Fresh air is everything.

Sometimes, the easiest dinners are really the best dinners… and having roasted veggies in the fridge makes life even easier.

I have been loving different videos about everyone training for the trials!  Sometimes, all I need is a little YouTube to get me motivated for the rest of a big week.

————————————————————————————————————-

Are there any YouTube clips or channels that help motivate you with training?

Will anyone be in Orlando for the trials?  Who is planning on watching it live on tv?

-I am going to do my best to avoid blinking for all 26.2 miles.

Favorite easy dinner?  Do you meal prep at all at the start of the week?

Anyone going anywhere to escape winter for a bit?