My pilates class Wednesday night was a killer (my abs are still sore) and when this morning rolled around I knew there was no way I could muster the energy for my first scheduled tempo run. Well I knew I wasn’t heading for the gym for another session with the ‘mill, so I decided it was time to try an evening run.
While Mother Nature cooperated and provided a relatively cooler evening, the real challenge came in dodging the weary commuters heading home and the carloads of less-than-attentive teens. All I kept thinking was that I was in a giant-sized game of Frogger!
Despite the bobbing and weaving, I managed to cut more than two minutes off my time from Sunday. I still have to work on the “tempo” part, though I did run the middle three miles at a faster pace. I just keep telling myself that the speed…the consistent speed… will come.
For now I’m happy to have won my Frogger game and put another 5-mile run under my belt!
nice job with the two minutes!!!! Frogger! I’m obsessed with bejewled blitz on facebook!
Haha Michelle!! So funny! Exactly how I felt this morning…dodging cars at every intersection. Good job with your time!!