Another Double

Now I know how early I have to go to bed in order to be fresh at 7 AM. 9:30. Ok, it's not like I get to sleep straight through. I still have to get up at 4AM to give Freddie medicine, which really means that I get up around 3 and stress about not hearing the alarm on my watch. So, given a night of interrupted sleep, that's what time I have to go to bed. And I'm exhausted when I do go to bed at 9:30!

7 AM: I'm up with the meds for Fred and dressed and out the door for 6 miles at marathon pace by 7:45. My goal is 4:20 so I aimed for a 10min. pace. Not happening. Every mile I thought to myself: "10 minute pace" and every mile my Garmin said under 10. What to do? Stress about it or just go with it? Here's what I'm talking about:

Mile 1 9:41
Mile 2 9:30
Mile 3 9:41
Mile 4 9:30
Mile 5 9:46
Mile 6 10:13

Avg. Pace: 9:44. It's pretty close and I'm giving myself bonus points for consistancy. There was a time, not to long ago, that it would have taken a miracle to see those kind of numbers. I'm not going to stress about it. Maybe it just takes about that many miles to hit my target pace. Anyway, I still have 106 days to work on it. (LOL-- I just got an email from NYRR yesterday that said 107 days till the marathon).

Ok, so, the run out of the way, it was time to hit the weights. Upper body focus today. And by-the-way, I wouldn't ordinarily lift on the weekends because of the intense running schedule, but my schedule is out of whack this week with taking care of Freddie.

Calf raises on the sled (13) 3X15
DB curl into reverse military press (8) 3X20
Rev. lat pull (20lb) into pushups (15) 3X15
Rope pushdowns uni leg (7.5-22.5) 4X10 [increased weight each rep]
Core work on bench: reverse crunches and a bunch of other hellish stuff.

Tomorrow is supposed to be another gorgeous day, even cooler in the morning than today, so I plan to enjoy my 8 mile LONG run.

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On another unrelated topic, today is HP Day: Harry Potter Day. I ordered the book from BN.com and it's guaranteed to arrive today. Freddie is opening the front door every ten minutes looking for the book. Even I am a little bit caught up in the hype and I've only read books 1-3. I guess I have some catching up to do. I wonder how many miles I'd have to run in order to listen to HP books 4-7 on my ipod?