Happy Humpday! What do you have on the schedule today? Today’s a rest day for me and I’ve also got a haircut scheduled for this afternoon which makes me giddy like a child going into a candy store (which I also still get really excited for as well). I haven’t had my haircut/ highlighted since June when I cut about 7 inches off so I.can’t.wait. I also go to Comb Goddess here in Steamboat - Erika is amazing. I have so much trouble finding a good hairstylist who stays around town so very thankful that she’s still here!

Last week I switched up my rest days from Sundays to Wednesdays and I kinda really love this new schedule! I normally always use Sundays as my rest days, but it was really nice having a morning during the week off from rushing about from my run to the shower to breakfast to work (and also sleeping in a bit longer too….. ; ) …..). I hit all of my workout paces and had an unbelievably killer (confidence-booster) speed workout on Tuesday- isn’t it always amazing when things come together?!? When my paces started to feel hard, I envisioned the sun directly above my head filling me with positive feelings and energy (something I took from my current Headspace meditation pack). —> it REALLY helped!

Also, sorry I’m not sorry for all the watch + ring pictures. I just had to.

Monday, 10/1: 5.85 miles easy @ 10:16 340’ up / 60 minute Jumpboard Reformer pilates class during lunch. I’m working on slowing down on my easy runs even more to really push harder on my workout days.

Tuesday, 10/2: 7 miles. 78’ up. I did this workout almost ENTIRELY on feel. I looked at my watch only small glances and I’m SO happy about that. After all —> finding goal race pace should be done on feel anyways, right?

1 mile warm-up @ 10:24

2 miles @ 7:37

3 min rest

1 mile @ 7:21

3 min rest

1 mile @ 7:19

3 min rest

1/2 mile @ 7:06

2 min rest

1/2 mile @ 7:01

2 min rest

1 mile cool down @ 9:55

Wednesday, 10/3: REST DAY. Hot Cocoa & Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow Peanut Butter Cup. Oh yes, definitely #restdaybrags

Thursday, 10/4: 6 mile progression run 113’ up with 6 x :45 strides at the end. Pace splits: 10:20 / 9:57 / 9:40 / 9:17 / 8:56 / 8:35. 6.74 miles and 20 minutes of strength / recovery yoga. I wanted to get this run done with in the morning, but when I made it to the trailhead there was crazy amounts of lightning so I turned around and tried again later in the afternoon after work around 6pm (not ideal, but I got it done)

Friday, 10/5: 7.02 miles easy @ 9:53 73’ up. I didn’t go quite as slow as I would have liked, but it was pouring rain this afternoon and I was also a bit crunched for time so this is what I got. I also slept through my THREE alarms so Friday afternoon run it was.

Saturday, 10/6: 14.1 miles @ 9:36 880’ up & 20 minutes of strength. Super pumped with my overall pace (I slowed myself down in some parts), but I definitely overdressed during my run (so had to stop to shed some layers around mile 10).I gained quite a bit of elevation as well so that was a confidence booster (especially when running on trails!)

Sunday, 10/7: 5.15 easy recovery miles @ 10:20 on the treadmill. Wasn’t really wanting to add in too much more elevation gain so I just hopped on the treadmill at home and zoned-out watching This Is Us. Kept the pace really easy which was perfect.

Total Mileage: 45.86 miles

Total Elevation: 1, 504’ up