a caged animal...

I've felt like a caged animal since about Wednesday.  I managed to get in a lot of weights yesterday, time on the bike, & the elliptical.  I couldn't wait to run this morning.  I stretched a little & knocked out ab ripper before we left.  It ended up just being Joe & myself on the hills.  We did a route very similar to what most of the group did yesterday.  The planned 6-8 hilly miles turned into 9.4 miles of hills.  I could tell it had definitely been 5-6 weeks since I had done any hills at all.  I fueled just like I have been doing for the last 6-8 months.  Heck, I even ate pasta last night at the Old Spaghetti Factory. 

9.4 miles - 9:00 pace - 1:24:35

We started at Mama's Javas & proceeded fairly flat for about 3 miles as you can tell from my pace.  LOL!  Then we hit Bluff Road.....it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...  The later hills felt worse than Bluff Road, but that's just my tired, non-hill trained legs letting me know they ran a marathon 7 days ago!

Mile 1-8:38
Mile 2-8:37
Mile 3-8:43
Mile 4-8:44 (Bluff, Fluff...)
Mile 5-9:01 (another hill)
Mile 6-9:26 (yet another hill)
Mile 7-9:44 (slow crawl up a hill)
Mile 8-8:45 (downhill headng back on Sunset)
Mile 9-9:06 (headed back to MJ's)
Mile .4-9:36 (little uphill)

We saw "Pink" last night at Bridgestone arena.  She was amazing & the woman has NO FEAR of heights.  She flew around in that place like Peter Pan.  She had a baby last year & I remember her on the "Ellen" show talking about all the training she was doing trying to get ready for this show.  Now I know exactly what she was doing.  Her abs were fabulous & her leg strength....WOW, is all I can say.  It made me glad I've kept P90X ab ripper in my training plan.  ;-)

This afternoon I'm doing some glute strengthening exercises at the gym & I'm doing P90X Stretch.  Megan B. enlightened me on what she's been doing to get her hips into shape at breakfast yesterday.  Time to give mine the attention they need.