Tuesday vo2 max day! Yay!

9:40AM - The results are in and unless there is a challenge, I officially name....

Queenzipp the Tiara Challenge Winner!!!

It has been a long challenge, but successful all around!  Although queeny jumped out to an early lead and never relented, everyone did a good job of having mostly good weeks!  It's been fun running the challenge!  The best part though, for me, was over the course of the challenge I gave up a 26 year tobacco (Skoal) habit AND still managed to lose a little weight!  Not as much as I wanted, but I'll take it!!!

Congrats to everyone that tried and especially to Queenzipp for winning!!! WooHoo!

Easy trainer ride!  Apparently too easy, I don't know where the 2 pounds came from, I thought I behaved pretty good yesterday! Oh well, but didn't want to have an increase on the last day of the challenge!

I am mostly happy with today's long run.  I think I could have done a better job pacing, but I have sometimes I have the attention span of a gnat and I would lose focus!  The good news is after the 2 runs this weekend, I have the confidence that I can put the 2 races together with pretty good times assuming nothing goes wrong!

I stopped at my car about the end of mile 12, paced never got back to where it was after that.

Do you see the little smidge of purple on the graph!   Stopped at the Y on the way home from work last night! I had 6 lanes to myself for most of the time!  Although having 2 lifeguards watch your every stroke is kind of weird!

Nice morning for a run!  Slightly overcast and mid 40's!  Unfortunately I think the weather is only going to head down hill!!!

I did decide to switch today's and tomorrow's run around.  Looking forward to getting some outside runs in this weekend!!

TGIF!!!

Unscheduled run, but I don't like recumbent stationary bikes and the elliptical was occupied so I figured an easy 30 minutes of active recovery would be good.  I am thinking of switching tomorrows 12 miler and Saturdays easy run around so that I can have a longer run back to back with Sunday's long run to prepare some for goofy! 

Home after a long day, but a successful day!   Doesn't look like the new 70.3 is going to work out unless the location we are looking to hold our annual meeting doesn't have the dates available.  That's the weekend our industry group for NY State is hoping to have its annual meeting! So I can't really skip it for the race!

Wow! That was a tough run! I did the 7 miles of HM pace at 7:53 min/mile!

Off to Albany for a couple of days!