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Thursday Tempo…

Done! Thank god. I’ve been busy and awful at fitting in my three runs every week, but I turned down drinks with my coworker (as much as I DID NOT WANT TO DO THIS) to get to the gym and run. 

I asked two smart runner friends, Liz and Jen what I should do. They both confirmed that the long run was most important. Jen said that while the speedwork should be my first choice, as long I was running one run faster than long run pace (which is slower than I’ll be running on race day. I remember Tina writing the other day that she’d read that tempo runs were the most important run, so I decided to go with a tempo run (especially since that takes a little less time to recover from, and I’m running 10 miles on Saturday.)

Warm-up: 5 minutes walk/jog

Mile 1-1.2: 6.7mph/8:57 pace (I ran this until 1.2 because that’s when I accidentally hit the stop button and had to start all over.

1.2-2.0: 6.8mph/8:49 pace

2.0-3.0: 6.9mph/8:42 pace

3.0-3.6: 7.0mph/8:34 pace

3.6-3.8: 7.2mph/8:06 pace

3.8-4.0: 7.5/8:00 pace

[Also, walking breaks for .10 miles at the beginning of 2.0 and 3.0. I don’t usually plan in walking breaks outside, but I HAVE to on the treadmill, or else I have a hard time getting through a treadmill workout.]

Cooldown: walk for 5 minutes

So technically that’s not how you’re “supposed” to do it, according to Runner’s World/hardcore people, but it was fast and I got progressively faster as I continued, so yeah. 

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And lunch was a sandwich (kind of ironic after I said this morning I don’t eat sandwiches much!) with Dori, who works across the street from me! We found out that our NYT story was actually in the print edition, too, so we met up to buy copies and grab lunch!

I had a roast turkey sandwich. Because it had avocado.

Back to Normal

So, the New York Times quoted me  yesterday, I got excited, and responded.

Before that, I was going to post about yesterday being a sad day. You see, when I was losing weight, I ate at Pump a lot. The way of eating my trainer was suggesting advocated for no bread and only eating grains as found in nature (i.e. brown rice, quinoa).

He said that the bread was extra energy our bodies don’t need, and so I used to eat a TON of brown rice. It’s still my default carb; old habits die hard. While I definitely have bread now (especially when I’m training for a race), I do think there are better ways to get nutrients in than a big, doughy sandwich. So, I was planning on getting a rice bowl from Au Bon Pain …until they told me they have been discontinued.

Harvest Rice Bowls, may you rest in peace.

I got a pesto sandwich instead (since salad bothers my stomach), but I forgot my memory card at home. I had it on whole wheat, but it was still relatively nutrition-lite for nearly 700 calories. But delicious.

Dinner was champagne at Junior League HQ to celebrate the NYT mention, followed by some leftovers when I got home.

This morning, I was back to my usual breakfast these days: banana and sunflower seed butter, today on a bagel thin.