Seem to be finally getting out of vacation mode, got out of bed at a reasonable time after the alarm went off, and after a quick chat with hubby who is still out of the country, went down to the basement and got my tempo run in.

Schedule called for 8 miles tempo @ 6mph with warmup and cool down did 1 mile warmup @ 4.1-5mph then started the 6mph run I had no plan of doing 8 miles but once I started had no excuse to stop so got in 7 additional miles before stopping to get ready for work. Felt good through out the run, can't really complain.

After work, met up with Shelby at Hudson High School for some more miles, decided to skip our normal Hudson route due to ice on the side walks and headed into a nice quite development where we were able to run on the road due to limited traffic, we missed one of the turns and ended up on the other side of town so got on the major road to head back to the high school luckily side walk wasn't too bad.




The New York Marathon lottery opened today, I guess I put my name in, the fee is ridiculous @$255 but it is a one time thing since it is a major but it really suck to pay $11 just to enter the lottery and be turned down.

Almost have everything set for Paris Marathon trip, got the eurostar ticket today, ticket booked and most days hotel covered except for 3, waiting on an Ihg sale to see what will be offered and avoiding using my Marriott points for now.

Day started out on a great note and ended on a great high.

Started out the day doing Jillian's No More Trouble Zone DVD, loves this and it kills me every time, probably because and quite sore by the time I hit it in my schedule which is the idea, using only 5# weight since this is high reps.

Afterwards  went outside, it was a beautiful day for a run and got in my 3 miles with 3x1 min/1mile pace run sprinkled in, had the Garmin set to 3x1mile with 1 min recovery and this worked perfect. Didn't quite make the 1 mile pace but was happy with what I ran knowing I have upped the weights this week and was quite fatigue. 1 mile pace 7:38 using TPL of 43 from Brain Training for Runners.

Mile 1 -9:50 (too fast)
1st 1 min - 8:29
Mile 2 - 10:05
2nd 1 min- 8:22
Mile 3 - 10:03
3rd 1 min - 8:21 (at least we are heading in the right direction)

After work went over to Hudson Spring Park to get in a run with Shelby, have been down here in a while nice rolling hill on a 1.8 mile loop


We got back after the 1st loop to meet up with 2 other runners but somehow we missed them so went back out for another loop



Body feels great and my wonderful husband had dinner waiting which even made it so much better.