Heat Wave

My 8 mile run was great this morning! I had a bagel before I left. Yay food!! Good weather, good company and the pace was not so bad after all! Average pace of 9:55 min/mi. You'll see in my stats that the pace kept going downhill but I knew I couldn't keep that fast of a pace. And then when we started going west, where the 20 mph winds were coming from, that slowed me down a whole lot, especially near the end when I was tired and

I wore my Under Amour tights and my new Hind Pants and that worked out great!! I wore my ColdGear Under Armour shirt, with my new Hind Shirt over that. I also threw on my softshell jacket but even before the 2 mile mark, I had it off. Luckily, I wore my water bottle belt so that held it up around my waist. But it did keep me from easily reaching my Gatorade. I had a feeling that I shouldn't have worn the jacket but when I saw Joe with one on, I figured I better put mine on as well. I took off my gloves around the 1 mile mark. No pins & needles today for my fingers!! I had on my visor thankfully since the sun was bright and I also had on my sunglasses. Only wore a fleece headband, no full on hat. Apparently the 40's are a good number for me to run in!

Tonight I hope to run another 5-6 miles on the treadmill at the YMCA. Let's hope for that. I'll go an hour before they close. This way hopefully I can stay on the treadmill for an entire hour and get that in. Then I would have ran 13-14 miles and while it's not the best to do for marathon training but no way could I have done a whole 14 miles in one outing today. I'm not that trained yet. Hoping to get up to 9 next week in one run!

My cats are loving this warm weather finally. They are out on the balcony since the majority of the snow has finally melted away last night. Seriously, before I went to bed the snow was from front to back. This morning, it was just on the front. One of my cats is getting a little jumpy because of the wind but it's keeping her excited and on her toes.

Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 876 ft Location: Sycamore, IL Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 02/07/09 Up/Downhill: [+193/-193] Time: 08:07 AM Difficulty: 2.4 / 5.0 Weather: Fair 41 F temp; 96% humidity 41 F heat index; winds SW 17 Performance Distance: 8.00 miles Time: 1:19:10 Speed: 6.1 mph Pace: 9' 54 /mi Heart Rate: 177 bpm (Avg) Calories: 857 190 bpm (Peak) Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Heart Rate (bpm) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Heart Rate Elev Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 9' 06 -0' 48 6.6 +0.5 168 +36 ft 2 9' 38 -0' 16 6.2 +0.2 178 +10 ft 3 9' 41 -0' 13 6.2 +0.1 179 +33 ft 4 9' 59 +0' 05 6.0 -0.1 180 -13 ft 5 10' 06 +0' 12 5.9 -0.1 179 +14 ft 6 10' 36 +0' 42 5.7 -0.4 174 -36 ft 7 10' 27 +0' 33 5.7 -0.3 177 -7 ft end 9' 36 -0' 18 6.2 +0.2 183 -36 ft Versus average of 9' 54 min/mile

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