Sunday running

I took a little break from blogging due to having a rather boring week. I probably only ran 7 miles total. It was a super hot week, which means I have to wake up a 5 A.M. in order to get a run in. I am a morning person, but I am not a morning person to the extent that waking up at 5 A.M. is easy for me. My husband and I started the T25 Challenge on Monday. We did daily workouts Monday-Friday for 25 minutes each. These circuit workouts are really challenging! I find that I am careful with some moves because they are high-impact and tend to hurt my knees. I can't risk my knees! I'm a runner! I still need to take my "before" pictures for the T25 Challenge, and I will post them once they are available. I will enjoy comparing my "before" and "after" 10 weeks from now.

This morning's run went well. I got my nutrition dialed in. I ate 1/4 cup of steel cut oats, 1 tbsp natural peanut butter, 1 tbsp agave nectar, and 1/2 banana. In the future, I could probably cut back on the added ingredients of that particular breakfast considering the calorie count was 455. WOW! But my body sure liked every calorie.

I maintained a relatively uniform pace, and I am happy to say that I didn't take any breaks. Yup! No walking for this chick!  I've decided that now I am more confident with my ability to run longer distances, I want to start focusing on pushing my pace. While I am not ashamed of my comfy 11 min/mile pace, I know I am capable of running faster. What happened to my 9:30 min/mile pace?!

Happy running!

All in all, I am very pleased with my run. It was a hot, sweaty, comfortably slow run... and I didn't walk! Wooo!