Stronger than your fear

As you can tell daily posting is not working for me so going to shoot for a weekly rap up.

While on a run on New years day I was listening to a podcast and the subject of course was on goal setting. He stated one reason people don't meet a goal is because they lose site of the goal they set. Well that is a no brainier! But as he explained his theory further, he said that if you set your goal to write more, then you write more NOT change the goal to become a better writer, etc. HMMM I like that!
 So my goal for this blog is to post -  not to post more, or get more readers but to post.

So here we go our first weekly post .....

Work outs 
Monday - 3 TM
Tuesday - 5 (New Years Day)

Wed - 3 Hill (courtesy of the incline button on the TM)

Thursday - rest - P90X Fountain of youth yoga
Friday - 5 (3 pace)


Perfect half marathon medal holders as I sorted out my 50 by 50 half marathons completed to date - Love my babies babies :)

Sunday long run -
I am pacing the 10:30 group for our local running group.
Our first run was 10 miles. Even though I have paced for this running group for 3 years, I was very nervous for some reason, maybe because I have always been a co pacer and this was my first time being a solo pacer for this group. Maybe because I have not ran a long run in 2 weeks and 10:30 seemed awfully fast, OR  maybe I couldn't let myself talk myself into a walk break...... HMMM maybe fear of having to perform made me nervous! Could that same fear be the monkey on my back keeping me from a 2 hour half???
Happy to report I feel it was a successful run we finished with an overall 10:38 pace, but had to stop for a bathroom break that resulted in 12 minute. I should have stopped my watch but didn't think about it, I normally never stop my watch during a run. The clock never stops during a race, but for pacing purpose I need to stop it so I will know where we are at in that mile.

Here's the breakdown:
1 Interval 1 mi 10:32.09 10:32.09 10:33 2 Interval 1 mi 10:23.54 20:55.63 10:24 3 Interval 1 mi 10:26.38 31:22.01 10:27 4 Interval 1 mi 10:31.74 41:53.75 10:32 5 Interval 1 mi 10:21.87 52:15.62 10:22 6 Interval 1 mi 12:02.58 1:04:18.20 12:03 Bathroom break 7 Interval 1 mi 10:29.49 1:14:47.69 10:30 8 Interval 1 mi 10:22.38 1:25:10.07 10:23 9 Interval 1 mi 10:40.15 1:35:50.22 10:41 Stop light 10 Interval 1 mi 10:27.69 1:46:17.91 10:28 This maybe a interesting training cycle folks!