Rest Day #2 - cuz sometimes that's how I gotta' roll when my daughter has a week off with me and it is a recovery week

Ran with her while she biked and ran (practiced) for her kid triathlon on May 5 :)

I'm really proud of myself for this one. I asked my (very supportive) hubby to drop me off 8 miles from home and we hid two waterbottles along the way so I could drink in 3 mile increments. I must say that I spend about 30 seconds at each water bottle and turned off my watch timer during those times. I think this was fair since I could run with a dixie cup in a race but I needed to leave the water bottles hidden but where we could find them. This DID possibly give me a race strategy though, of maybe walking for 30 seconds at 3 mile intervals of water stations. It's a 30 seconds that helps me to recover a lot, I believe.

The drinking was good - I limited it to 5 sips at my first station and by the second I couldn't help downing half the water bottle. At those first 6 miles I was on pace to beat my very best 10K time! Granted, it was VERY downhill - I didn't plan this but I sure did appreciate it I swear, the first 1.5 miles was downhill!

One bad thing that happened was that I wore bike socks during this run to see how my feet would like that. The didn't.  I have two horrible blisters - one on each foot to prove that fact. SO, I learned that I should have dry, running socks ready in my shoes on race day.  Also, I need to start switching to Hammer powder rather than Gatorade because that's what will be available on the race course come race day.

Finally, I overdid it a bit. You'll see by my split times that I went out real hard - especially after yesterday's bike. I had to walk another 1/2 mile up my hill AFTER running 8 and I walked in the door looking like a zombie. My lovely husband went out and picked up my waterbottles and is being very sweet to me. I will definitely need tomorrow's rest day. I may have to take a few days off of running because of the blisters.

I also am having trouble with my right shoulder and need to take a few days off of swimming. This may be a bike week coming up. I'm OK with that. I'm starting to feel like I can really do this HIM. Go me.

Mile 1 : 9:33 ( um more like 9:00 since I stopped and peed)

Mile 2 : 9:26

Mile 3 : 10:18

Mile 4: 10:21

Mile 5: 10:51

Mile 6: 11:49

Mile 7 : 11:17

Mile 8 : 11: 58 (but more like 11:45 I believe...)

Then I walked up our ridiculous hill. The end.

<3 ENDORPHINES!!! <3 

Yes, they are back. They came back after the run. Ahhhhh. Lesson learned.