Happy July and a great track workout with the help of a friend

Happy Tuesday guys!  Thought I'd pop in for a quick hello this week.  Because of the the holiday, its a short week and tomorrow is my last day of work before a long weekend.  I plan on spending as much time outside in the sunshine as possible do I doubt I'll be back here at all. 

I cant believe it's July already, the year is half over and that got me thinking about my New Years goals I set.  I plan on doing a post sometime this month about how those are shaping up.  I know some are going better than others, so I wanted to check in with them to see what I can improve on for the remainder of the year.

Ok, onto yesterday's workout.  I had another 10x400m workout, same one I did for my first track workout back.  Except last time I was all by myself, this time I had some company.  I mentioned in my last post that Jake and I met another runner up at the track last week, and she said she would be up for joining me someime.  So I messaged her yesterday to see if she was up for it and she was - hooray!  She used to run track in college so I know running with her will be a big help, plus we are around the same pace so thats always nice.  Running with another person always makes me push myself harder than I would by myself.  It was pretty hot yesterday, but we gave each one of those 400's everything we had.  There were multiple times we had both put our hands on our knees and catch our breath, and many times we both wanted to puke at the end.  The last one we gave our best effort and it left us both laying on the ground - a sign of a successful workout! 

I will spare you all the details since there were so many, but I am happy to see that compared to last time I was about 2-3 seconds faster this time around, I even did my last one in 1:16 so I was really happy with that.

I will also say, as I think I have mentioned this before, but I swear Nichole is some kind of crazy genius.  I swear she knows me better than I know myself because I honestly didnt know if my legs would be ok for this.  Every run since my last rest day ( last Thursday) have been slow and heavy and my calves/legs have been sore.  But on yesterday's warm up they felt great!  Calves didnt hurt, legs felt lighter, and they felt ready to run fast.  It's like she knows exactly how to line up my easy and hard days to get the most out of me - I guess thats why she's such a great coach and professional :)  I am running our local 4th of July 5k race on Thursday and this workout makes me confident I can have a good race.

But even though things are improving, I still get nervous about the hurt that's about to happen every time I drive up to this place...



although a sunny day always makes it a little better :)


Also, yesterday was the start of  birthday week for Jake! 

He turned a whopping 28 yesterday so feel free to call him an ol' geezer!  We have some fun plans this week so I'll try and post up some pics of what we're up to - should be fun!


I hope everyone has a safe a fun 4th of July and get a chance to watch some fireworks!