Dreamin' is FREE ;o)

4 TM @ 8:27-it felt pretty good after the first mile of loosening up.  My hamstring feels beat to heck from Teena's "massage" yesterday, but it feels bruised, not like a pain you can not run with.

Ran down to get my SPIN pass and came back to run 2 more BUT it was like everything had tightened up and my knee was hurting.  So, I stopped after one.  I promised Teena no speedwork for a few weeks AND that I would stop if it hurt.

SPIN class-lots of sprinting today and a little climbing.

SPIN class

.5 on the track---not so good.  While it did not hurt like yesterday, it hurt enough that I decided not to run on it.  I vow to be good to get this healed up quick.  

I alternated between weights and the eliptical today for 2 hours!  Since I could not run, I wanted to make sure I worked out good and hard.  I lifted heavy and slow today, no rests between 4 sets of each muscle group.  Fun.

bicep/tricep 

20 minutes eliptical (hill setting)

abs/back 

25 minutes eliptical (arm blast/interval settings)

chest/shoulders

obliques/back

30 minutes eliptical (hill interval setting)

Then I went home and did just what Dan ordered---ate 3 cookies.  Seriously!!!  My neighbor delivered warm chocolate chunk walnut cookies right when I got home.  I ate one and then 10 minutes later ate another one.  There were 12 left!  No one in my family eats nuts so I brought them with me to the school (volunteer day) to get rid of them and, on the way, ate a third!!  No self control.  Funny thing is, everyone I tried to give them to said, "No, I am trying to be good."  I would talk them in to a half and every single one of them ended up taking another one from me.  They were THAT good.  At least they are gone so I can not eat 4.  ;o)

Maybe I should go put in two more hours to burn off those cookies.  Better yet, I should skip dinner.  (I will do neither of those things, though!) 

3 mile warm up @ 8:27

1 minute on (10.2)/1 minute off (6.3) X 21

1.5 mile cool down @ 8:00

LOTS of pain behind my knee today, something I have not felt before.  Not sure what it was.  I think I may have to skip running tomorrow if it still hurts, it is just the beginning of the season....dang it.

For the first night in well over a week I was not congested at night time!  Yeah!!!  Stupid cold. 

7 TM, varying paces, avg 8:06

SPIN Speed Play Class--favorite moments of the day were sprinting at high resistance and then having her yell out to push the stop button and then restart AND then finishing the class off with 4 minutes of 5 second sprints and 10 second breaks (that did not sound bad at all until after about 3 of them!)  

Superset oldie but goodie:

bent over row/decline bench press (15 reps, repeated 4 times w/o breaks)

1 mile (7:20)

preacher curl/diamond push up (15 reps, 4 X)

1 mile (7:15)

quadruped (12 each side)/plie ball squats (30--4 X)

1 mile (6:58)

bicycles (30 total)/roll-ups (12--4 X)

1 mile (6:53)

1/2 mile cool down on the track (9ish pace)

**I did each mile starting at 7.5 mph (8 minute mile) and then worked my way to 10mph (6 minute mile).  I just varied the way that I got there-always running the last 10th at 10mph.  Fun stuff-anything to keep me going when i do not want to run!

5 miles on the sweaty freakin' hot treadmill at the rec center, while I stared out the window at the snow wishing I was in it instead.  Avg 8:13.  Ran this while my daughter was in gymnastics for 45 minutes.  I need to get back to bringing a book with me, reading is better than running.

Went home, fed the kids and did homework, then got them ready for bed and headed back to the rec center to run with Scott.  7.5 miles, avg 8:13 again.  I watched 45 minutes of Alcatraz, it was pretty interesting.  Of course I missed the end...

That place is packed at night.  I hate it.  I feel claustrophobic.