Birthday update!

It's been a couple days since I've updated. My birthday was last friday and Beau took me to San Diego for a long weekend. My workouts got messed up and I haven't had a chance to update the blog! So here's what I've been up to:

Wednesday Aug 12, 2009: 40 minute iTread 1 @ 4.0

Thursday Aug 13, 2009: I was supposed to run 2 miles after work at the gym, but Beau came home from his gig early to surprise me for my birthday. So, I skipped today's run.

Friday Aug 14, 2009: My Birthday! I had the day off work today. I slept in a little then got up and ran around my neighborhood. I think I ran somewhere between 2 and 2.25 miles. It was pretty hard running outside! I really struggled.

Saturday Aug 15, 2009: Rest day. Today I celebrated my birthday with too much food and drink. We watched the Seahawks vs. Chargers game in San Diego too! So much fun!

Sunday Aug 16, 2009: I was really excited to use the super fancy treadmills at the W. They had TV screens and looked really nice. There were only three treadmills in the small workout room, two in front of windows and one in the middle in front of a wall with a picture on it. I got stuck at that one. The treadmill hardly had any TV stations and the touch screen didn't work very well. I decided to turn the tv off and just use my iPhone. I had 2.5 miles to run. I started out at 5.2 on the treadmill at a 1.0 incline. I quickly got tired so I slowed my speed down to 5.0. About 1 mile into it I had to stop and walk. I started running again once I recovered but I brought my incline down to 0.0. I ran about another mile before I had to walk again. Then I finished the last .5 at 5.0 speed with 0.0 incline. Really really tough workout.

Monday Aug 17, 2009: Rest day.

Tuesday Aug 18, 2009: Today I did iTread 1 40 minute after a .25 warm-up walk. I did an average of 5.0 speed and ran the whole way, about 3 miles. I cooled down for about 5 minutes, stretched and went home. I was so dreading the workout after my run on Sunday. But it wasn't as bad as I thought it wold be. Thank god.

Wednesday Aug 19, 2009: Today I went for a 60 minute walk (about 2 miles) around the neighborhood. It was a really nice evening. My leg joints are are definitely feeling the run (and the extra lbs) my right knee is kind of bugging too. I'm going to start doing some yoga videos to loosen up I think. I'm going to try to get up early tomorrow to get my run over with, I only have to do 2 miles tomorrow, so I'm going to try to do them at a faster pace.