Let's do this!

Today was just a cardio day for me, I did 30 minutes on the elliptical and then I did my HIIT sprints on the treadmill again. The hiit part only lasted about 25 minutes, I ran a 7:40 pace for the rest of my time on the tm. I felt really good today. 

Upper body weights. Incline presses, push up,shoulder work,  worked tri's,bi's lats. Crazy hard! Carina asked me the other day if I am seeing improvement and the answer is without a doubt YES! It's the combination of the diet and the new weight lifting regime. I am changing. I was gaunt from marathon training before, and now I am turning into a powerful lean machine :)

5 miles on the tm @fast-ish pace. The twice a week all out sprints are making me faster I swear!

Lower body strengthening for an hour. Some core work. Crazy what I am doing each week.

Incline hill work on the dreadmill walking. It is sweaty and hard despite what one might think.

Ran 7 miles today. Most of it a tempo run. Good sweaty workout and I haven't skipped a beat in my stamina and endurance.

Weight lifting and ran 5 miles, ran 30 minutes at a 7:40 avg, then 16 minutes of sprint on/offs.

Lower body strengthening for 40 minutes. Then ran 8.5 miles. Speed varied. But the avg was about a 7:25  :)

44 min of elliptical hell (look the name calling is baaack!) and 5 miles on the dreadmill. I did some hill walking intertwined in some that mileage. Super.

Upper body weights and strengthening. I am really bad at push ups, but I do them anyway.

Elliptical for 36 min, 4 miles on the dreadmill in 30 min.

Lower body strengthening. Intense I tell ya. I look different. I look stronger.

 Ran 5.2 on the dreadmill chatting at my friend Julie.

Upper body weights. 30 min elliptical and 6.2 miles running.

Lower body strengthening. Squats and deadlifts are hardcore I am telling you.

35 min elliptical hell. Ran 4.5 on the dreadmill. 

Today was my hiit sprint day. I did 4 miles of sprinting on/offs. 60 seconds of each speed. I get really SUPER worked over when I do this each week. I can't begin to tell you the energy it consumes from ones body. It takes the rest of the day& evening to recover from it. When you feel like that, you know it's doing it's job. The last .50 of the mileage I was brisk walking on an incline. My trainer/diet coach turned up the heat on me yesterday. My diet was re-written as well as my strength training and cardio. She referred to it as breaking out 'best mode'. Oh shiz, what have I got myself into!?  :)

I worked my core a bit and weight trained my legs after running. My legs are sore now, so I know I did something.

This pic was taken a few days ago. My new found bi's and tris and delts. More pics later December to come when I've changed more.

 ran 5 miles. Special.

Lot's of weights. Ran 5.2 miles. Special.

Weights to work my back (lats) today. At the end of the sets were some sets of plyo's that kicked me around like a little girl. So hard!

Then I ran 8 miles because this week is Thanksgiving. I haven't run that much or long in a few weeks. I plan to do it everyday this week. Cardio load instead of carbo load. The day of bing eating is coming...only not for me. For everyone else. I swear I am going to be good that day.

Lower body squats and lunges. My hammy's and quads really hurt now. But it's a good hurt.

Ran for like 3 miles before I did some brisk walking on an incline for 2 more miles. Nothing special.

Bi's and tri's strength training. Then I ran 8 miles with some speed intervals and I felt sick when I left. I had to work hard being that it's pig out day  :)

Ran 10.5 miles today very fast. It hurt. Pain, sweat. blah. First double digit since SGM. I can still do it and that's all that matters :)

I decided to take a run up the Spanish fields river trail this afternoon. The weather was beautiful and sunny, and I had nothing else to do. I threw on my running clothes, put on the watch and headphones and off  I went. Honestly I am surprised at the splits I pulled off for not having a focus on running the last 6 weeks. As well as running minimally. All of my splits were below a 7:30, with the last 2 miles being a 7:04 and a 6:54. Not shabby. This run was so beautiful. I haven't been on the river trail in weeks and it always tugs at my heart strings because of how much time I have spent there. I've trained for 2 marathons and all my other races on this trail. It looks so different now though ,with the leaves missing and the trees looking barren. I can't wait for spring....

Chest strength training. And some plyo's.

Ran 4.5 tempo. Mooooooonday is the best.

Woke up late, I was tired. I don't remember the alarm even going off. Weights working lats and the back. With some plyo's intermixed again. -I love that.

Ran a 4.2 tempo. 

Strength trained legs today. 

46 min of elliptical hell.