OK, now I really have to update. Have basically kept with the training schedule. Last week did 2 on treadmill Tuesday, 7 on treadmill Thursday, and 10 on the greenway (10.8 per mile). Long runs before that 9 @ 10.6 and 8 @ 10.25. So basically I'm looking at probably 10.5 per mile. Not what I'd hoped for but that is what I'm going with. Hoping the new shoes I got might help with the hamstring problem. The salesman said I might have had a shoe that had too much restriction on the arch. I'm hoping he's right. Running without hamstring pain would be a blessing. :)

Let me know how you are doing, Jen.

I have not been faithful at updating the blog :(. Last week I did 2 on the treadmill Tuesday, 7 on the treadmill on Thursday and ran the chicken run 10K on Saturday. Finished 15th in my age group with 1:03:27. Better than I did at the Redbud 10k a few years ago. My hamstrings hampered me but I didn't quit! Looking forward to San Fran. This week I've done another 2 on treadmill Tuesday and 7 today. Very slow. Haven't got used to pacing myself when watching the movie :) On the other hand, I'm getting faster at starting the movie! Went to lunch with a friend today that said the hill in downtown San Fran is straight up. Ugh.

On last Thursday, the 3rd, ran 6 on the treadmill. Took forever because I couldn't figure out how to get the movie to play in the Playstation 3. I had to have something to do! Anyway, it was a total of 80 min. which seems really slow but I felt like I had a good run. Need to run this p.m. 7 miles. Hoping the rain stays away. If not I will get up and run in the a.m. (what I should have done today) and ride the bike on Tuesday for 8 (2 running miles). We'll see. Tons of homework to do. GO POKES!

Ran about 2.5 today in 31 min. Coco and I did another .5 after that. Felt pretty good. Did do 10 and 1 interval. Hamstrings are still tight. Tight when I start off and then just get worse. Stretching not doing too much good. Ended strong.

Sunday ran between 7 and 8 in 80 minutes. Probably not a good time but felt pretty good when I was done. Did about 10 min. intervals with a few breaks in between. It was cool which helped a lot :)

Well had to resort to the dreadmill today due to rain. 5.3 miles. I ended up doing intervals but not at the pace I was shooting for. Had to watch the hamstring though. 66 min for 5.0 miles. Walked the first 4 minutes. It was supposed to be 1 mile warmup, 3 miles at 10:04, and another mile cool down. I ended up doing .5 mile intervals with .25 between.

Tuesday ran 2.3 miles but it felt like 22.3. Legs were tired and couldn't catch my breath. Might have been 1/2 c. coffee I had earlier in the a.m. Was really fatigued. Maybe because that time of the month is coming :(. 12.6 per mile? yuck.