Barb T.

First run since getting off the plane.  I actually wanted to run yesterday, but the rain was coming down.  'Tis rainy season here and it rains and rains and rains.  It was raining when I ran this morning, but I figured I'd run any way.  It wasn't raining too hard, so it worked out just fine.  Was able to do 4 miles with a time of 40:09.  Splits:  10:23, 9:48, 9:56, 9:58.  AP  10:01

Well, made it back on line!  Thursday was able to get in 4 miles:  10:11, 9:11, 9:18, 9:30 with an AP of 9:32.  Been shredding about 4 days a week.  Goal is to increase my miles in 2 weeks time.  Will probably resort to running mornings and evenings in order to increase my mileage.  We shall see...

Well, today I started out thinking...let's do 10 miles.  After 5 miles I thought...well let's try 8 miles.  After 7 miles a said...that's enough!  I think running in the tropics is much different than running in the desert.  My body needs some more time to get used to the climate here.  We're in the midst of the heart of rainy season which is great, but lots of sloshing around when I'm running.  We'll see how next week goes....

Nice run this morning.  Rained a teeny bit but not much.  10:46, 10:36, 10:24, 9:44, 9:36, 9:34

AP  10:01

Well, that was a TOTAL guess as far as mileage is concerned.  It was rainy really, really hard so I decided to do a 'stair' workout inside our office building.  This will be the extent of my hill work outs as it's just not kosher for me to go outside the compound in shorts and do some running.  Such is life.  I ran for 41 minutes on the stairs up and down.  I'll probably do some shredding this afternoon.

Took it easy today.  Yesterday a neighbor brought over one of my favorite African dishes, rice with leaf sauce.  The leaf sauce is cooked with palm oil so as you might imagine it's rather heavy on the stomach.  So, I ran 'heavy' today.  The sauce sure was good, though!  Also got a bit of a surprise...my husband takes the kids to school in the morning, and I go and run.  Well, 30 minutes later he returned with the 2 kids!  They start school an hour and a half later on Wednesday's.  Ugh.  New schedule.  Change.  I had to take the girls to school after I ran.  On the way I asked my middle schooler (her 3rd day of middle school ever...6th grade) so what time does your schedule say you start?  OH NO!, she replied.  I started at 8am! (an hour and 10 minutes earlier).  There are guards outside the school gates and where you enter into elementary school is different than middle school and my husband didn't think to ask the middle school guard what time school started over there.  So, I had to explain to the school what happened so that my middle schooler could enter school an hour and 20 minutes late.  They showed us grace and my middle schooler was so relieved.  We're recovering....oh...yes...I did run this morning....

 It did rain AGAIN while running this morning, but at least this morning it was a slow drizzle.  these were the slow, palm oil saucy, splits:  11:08, 10:58, 11:19, 10:47, 10:44  AP:  11:00

Well, I forgot my garmin this morning, so my splits are a 'guess'.  Here they are:  11:08, 10:34, 10:02, 9:59, 9:46.  AP  10:18 Time:  51:32

Remembered my garmin this morning and it didn't rain!  Still was very humid and I got soaked from perspiring.  AP was 10:14.  Time:  51:08.  Splits:  10:44, 10:30, 10:07, 10:02, 9:45

Well, had a good run this morning.  Went 3 miles and it just started raining too hard, so I did a mile up and down the stairs in our office building, then after the rain slowed down, I did another 4 miles.  Splits:  11:06, 10:36, 10:25 (mile of stairs), 10:36, 10:19, 10:35, 10:10.  AP  10:32

Good run this Monday morning.  Nothing amazing or exceptional unless I mention that it did not rain!  Splits:  10:05, 9:30, 9:41, 9:47, 9:44    AP  10:06

Thought I'd do something a little bit different today, so thought after running 3 miles I'd push to and a bit beyond marathon pace.  Felt good.  Splits:  10:03, 9:52, 9:44, 8:49, 8:46

OK, so maybe I can report a little bit of excitement here on the blog.  The country here is approaching it's first ever democratic presidential election.  The final run off is to take place this Sunday.  Well, campaigning is alive and well and it got out of hand over the weekend.  We had gone downtown on Sunday morning for breakfast and on the way back had to squeeze the car through some crowds that were getting excited and eventually got out of control.  We made it safely back home, but in town was not a good place to be all day.  Guess we need to have some excitement around here once in a while :-)

Did an interval workout this morning.  Ran hard for 1/2 a mile then easy for 1/4 mile and did this 5 reps.  

1- .50 pace:  9:33     .25 pace:  11:22

2-  pace:  8:36     pace:  11:20

3-  pace:  8:44     pace:  11:08

4-  pace:  8:29     pace:  11:36

5- pace:  8:36     pace:  don't know

Yesterday and today I tried shredding level 2.  OK, I'm sore.  Using muscles I haven't used in a while.  I'll run it off tomorrow.  Today it rained and rained and rained...didn't want to run in the rain.

OK...so I'm still pretty sore.  Rained quite a bit before daybreak and I thought I wasn't going to be able to run, but the rain stopped at daybreak, so I went 4 miles nice and easy as I'm still quite sore.  If I sit to long, I feel old trying to get back up and moving.

AP:  10:42

Time:  43.33

splits:  11:04, 10:26, 10:18, 10:11

It was a nice and easy run this morning.  No rain, but it was quite warm and humid.  Took it nice and easy.  

Time:  1:52.44

AP: 11:10

Splits:  11:22, 10:51, 11:03, 11:19, 10:53, 10:52, 10:42, 10:31, 10:30, 10:07

Nice and easy run this morning.  It misted a bit and that was actually nice.

10:11, 10:05, 10:16, 10:06, 9:49

AP: 10:10

time: 51:08

Did an interval workout this morning.  Ran hard for 1/4 mile then easy for 1/2 mile.  Did 7 repeats.

1 - 1/4     pace:  10:28

2 - 1/2     pace:  10:20

3 - 1/4     pace:  7:59

4 - 1/2     pace:  10:12

5 - 1/4     pace:  7:49

6 - 1/2     pace:  10:08

7 - 1/4     pace:  8:13

8 - 1/2     pace:  10:22

9 - 1/4     pace:  7:50

10-1/2     pace:  10:46

11-1/4     pace:  7:59

12-1/2     pace:  10:32

13-1/4     pace:  7:46

14-1/2     pace:  18:11

Well, today's run started out good, but after 3 miles I was really tired.  I've been really struggling with my energy level lately.  I figured it was transition to living in a tropical climate.  Maybe it is... still... but I'm ready to get some energy back.  Anyway, I went 4 miles instead of my intended 5 miles.  Splits:  9:53, 9:16, 9:35, 9:56

Good morning tout le monde.  This mornings run went well, though, I put my miles ran in the easy miles category because I was above marathon pace, but I worked hard!  I did shred this morning for about 25 minutes and maybe that's why it felt like a harder run.  Anyway, here are the splits:  9:48, 9:29, 9:23, 9:29, 9:32, 9:43 (.86)  AP:  9:34

Well, I ran about 1/2 a mile and I was just plain tired, so a friend was walking and I joined her had we had a WONDERFUL visit with her.  I did shred this morning for about 25 minutes and that was a good workout.  Might try to run this afternoon as I won't be able to run tomorrow.  School meeting.  

Have been internet challenged the last few days AND keep on forgetting to bring my garmin so that I can put in my workouts!  I think Saturday was a good run.  Can't  remember.  Here are the stats:  AP 10:31     10:58, 10:51, 10:34, 10:30, 10:06, 10:08

Forgot my Garmin this morning.  AP 10:09

Nice and easy this morning.  Still struggling with no energy. AP 10:23  Splits:  10:48, 10:22, 10:18, 10:21, 10:05, 17:50 (walked and talked!).

Had a nice workout this morning.  Did some speed work.  Ran hard for 1/4 mile than easy for 1/4 mile.  Here are the splits: the split paces:  9:37, 10:18, 8:01, 10:52, 8:25, 10:58, 7:50, 10:48, 7:55, 11:05, 8:21, 10:47, 8:09, 11:07, 8:05, 10:27, 8:15, 11:45, 7:24, 11:49,

well, I walked out the door without my Garmin this morning.  Mais enfin!  Ugh.  Too many things going on....snacks for school, lunches for school, getting them out the door by 7:30am.  My middle schooler is staying at school from 8 to 5 today and she's not so sure about this.  She's also wanting to be the class representative so was having to do a speech today.  Anyway, I forgot my GARMIN!  I did about 5.1 miles and my AP was about 10:27.  I'm a slow bum today.  I did shred this morning and I think I sweat 2 pounds off in 30 minutes.  I'm not exaggerating.  Anyway, back to work...