Wednesday, and catching up

I mostly try to eat pretty healthy, but this is one thing I haven't budged on for a couple of years now.  MMM One or two cups first thing in the morning and I am good to go. The whipped cream gives it just the right amount of sweetness.

 I made Cola stay home from running with me for a couple of days, since he got kicked by a horse and had a limp.  He seems all healed up and Sunday did a 10 mile run with me and today a 7 mile run.  I was doing half mile intervals up and down this stretch of road.  He seems to think I am indecisive about where I am going when I keep turning around and running back the way we just came every half mile.

 Some days I love speedwork and other days not at all.  Today was a not at all, I was going to do 8 intervals but I gave in and only did 6.  I did have a nice long cool down though :)  The picture below shows the one stretch of pavement I do have to run on.  I have about 1 1/2 miles of it.  I do most of my intervals here because it is pretty flat.

 It rained here the last two days, so there is water everywhere.  The roads weren't as muddy as I thought they were going to be though, thankfully!  And finally a sort of blurry race pic from the race Saturday.  The gal behind me is smiling...WHAT?  I am barely holding my cookies and really trying to give it the onion and she looks like she is having fun!  Sadly, even though I beat her to the finish line, due to chip timing she really beat me by 3 seconds.  I guess I should have been smiling more! I worked Monday and Tuesday this week so I am off for the next two.  I didn't run since it was a downpour outside but Tuesday I did do the Hot Body Workout.  Trying to decide which one I will do today.  Maybe I will go back to one of my favorites!

 

My splits for the intervals.  You can see at 14 where I was supposed to speed up again...I didn't.  I started my cool down instead. I was feeling pretty spent and I kept getting a side ache.  I figured 6 was pretty good anyway and left it at that! and I know it says 6.72 for total distance, but before I programmed in my interval program I had already run .29 miles :)

 

What about you?  What are your feelings on speedwork..love it or hate it?

What is your favorite  type of speed work?