A short run for fun

Last night, Justin and I went for a short run and stopped by the Lincoln Memorial for a pic. Justin ran in his new Saucany Kinvara's for the first time. I'm sure he'll be giving you the low down on those eventually. They are bright orange, like blindingly bright orange. Bright shoes mean you have to run fast ...run FAST Justin!

Calling it a night

2 hours on the bike, 4 mile run, 10x100 strides and a 30 minute swim is where I call it quits for the day! Today was my Saturday which means heavy workouts and I am feeling really good about everything I've done today. I felt strong throughout my workouts but I gotta say that I am feeling it now in tiredness. I am exhausted and ready for bed and it's only 7:30pm. I'm going to be fighting this one so that Justin doesn't give me a hard time for going to sleep early! :)

Once again the little girl that lives upstairs was running around early (she has feet of an elephant) and was throwing her toys all over the floor so I set the bike up in front of the laptop and turned on an instant movie on Netflix - Sunshine Cleaning - and put on noise cancellation earphones... ahh, the sound of muting someone out. It passed the time and my ride was over in no time.

my bike set up today

Next I headed out for a 4 mile run with the gym as my endpoint. At the gym I ran strides seriously for the first time ever. The track at the gym is teeny tiny so I had to run 1.5 laps to make it equivilent to to 100 meters. It went surprisingly well and look forward to doing these again next week. I used a swim as a cool down since I haven't been in awhile and thought it was necessary to get in the pool today.

Now here I sit as Justin has gone to the pool to swim fighting to keep my eyes open. He better get home quick or he might find me tucked into bed fast asleep ;)

Goodnight!