running | Preppy Runner - Theodora Blanchfield

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Yes, I am that girl that just cut-and-pasted the weather report. But after a frigid winter, this is pretty amazing. Sunshine outside = sunshine in my mood, too.

I broke these out today. I also broke out the birthday dress and trench coat. (Dear everyone I walked past on the way to work: I was not naked under my trench coat. It’s just longer than my dress.)
I’ve been rocking out to some awesomely cheesy music. I nearly danced my way to work listening to the music we listened to last weekend and now I’m trying not to dance at my desk.
I’m going to party like it’s my birthday tonight. Rest assured, healthy decisions will not be made.
Tamsin’s coming to visit!

Breakfast was a banana and almond butter sandwich.
I actually ran before work!!! The nice weather and knowing that there was happy hour at the end of the tunnel certainly helped, although I’d be lying if I said I didn’t snooze for an hour and I wasn’t rubbing the sleepies out of my eyes the entire time. But I did it. IN SHORTS. And I guess that might also be why I’m in an awesome mood. Maybe all you morning exercisers are on to something…

I passed a whole bunch of people wearing cheeseheads on my way to work. I think, technically, they were protesting, but I prefer to think that they just like cheese a lot.
Three-day weekend. Enough said.

Is today awesome for you, too?

(P.S. If you think I’m awesome, nominate me for the Women’s Health blogroll. It’d be cool. Or don’t. Thanks :))

I told Emily this weekend that I’d need to run an extra 4 miles yesterday since I was 4 miles short of my long run on Saturday.

“Can you do that??” she asked. I told her that my intuition was that if it’s not a new distance to you or not a new race length that you’re training for, that I thought it was probably not ideal, but still okay once in a while.

Why? Why can you split up a long run in training and be okay on race day? Well, while the long runs are the most important type of run for race training, it’s the sum of the long runs, the tempo runs and the speedwork and the total of your mileage and months of training that ready you for a race.

I looked it up tonight, and it turns out that I was basically right. It’s apparently most beneficial for slower runners in marathon training. If you’re spending more than 3 hours running (like I did here and here) for a long run, that’s apparently when you’re most likely to get injured, and that article suggests considering splitting up a long run that will take more than 3 hours. (I don’t think I ever will, but it’s an interesting consideration.)

Last night, I did the last 4 to round out my 10 miles for the weekend.