Short and Sweet

Holy buckets! I didnt realize til I got on here that it had been so long since I had posted my workouts! Deepest apologies but life has been B to the izzy over here!
So here's the workouts:

Mar 6
MILL walk...1.8mi, 30:00. 3% incline

Mar 7
ELLIPTICAL....2mi, 20:00
MILL RUN...4mi, 43:00 (10:45 pace)
MILL WALK....1.5mi 25min
UPPER BODY WEIGHTS
PUSH UP CHALLENGE Week 1 Day 1 *I have the upper body strength of a newborn baby. Its borderline abnormal how WEAK I am!! I am hoping these push ups will help that. By the way I am doing the girlie ones as I can not even do ONE of the 'real' ones. Hopefully by the end I will be able to!

Mar 8
ELLIPTICAL....9.6mi, 44:00

Mar 9
ELLIPTICAL....2mi, 10:00
MILL RUN....3 mi, mile 1-11:00, mile 2-9:50, mile 3-9:50
UPPER BODY WEIGHTS
PUSH UPS
SIT UPS

Mar 10
ELLIPTICAL....8.25mi, 39:00 level 1, 2, 3
MILL WALK...1.75mi, 30:00, 4% incline
LOWER BODY WEIGHTS

Mar 11
ELLIPTICAL...8.9mi, 40:00, 2/1 intervals for 15min
UPPER BODY WEIGHTS
PUSH UPS
SIT UPS

Mar 13
VIRTUAL 5K RACE....3.09 mi, 25:25 (8:13 pace) *Met a goal for this Spring already and ran the first mile in 8 minutes!! Was a hard hard run though. Wore my Garmin for this one and ran the same route I ran for my virtual 5K last Thanksgiving and realized that even though I mapped THAT run SUPER close at mapmyrun.com I was off by more then a tenth of a mile. So even though I ran this run in almost the same time (last Thanksgiving it was 25:30) I was actually faster =)

Mar 14
ELLIPTICAL...9.15mi, 45:00
MILL WALK....1.25mi, 3% incline
UPPER BODY WEIGHTS
PUSH UPS

Mar 15
ELLIPTICAL....10mi, 45:00 2/1 intervals
MILL WALK....1.5mi, 29min, 4% and 5% incline
LOWER BODY WIEGHTS *upped the weights from 3 and 5# dumbbells to 5 and 8# dumbbells
SIT UPS

Mar 16
OUTDOOR RUN....5mi, 51:20 (10:16 pace), 74* and VERY windy *Note to self: when the wind is blowing around at, oh, 472 mph, wear sunglasses to prevent yourself from having to pick branches and small animals out of your eyes for 1/2 the run...
ELLIPTICAL....8.6mi, 40:00
UPPER BODY WEIGHTS
PUSH UPS Week 2 Day 2

Mar 17
ELLIPTICAL....10.5mi, 50:00, 20min at level 1 and 2, 10min at level 3
LOWER BODY WEIGHTS

Mar 18
MILL RUN...4mi, 42:40
MILL WALK...2.37mi, 40:00, 4 and 5% incline
UPPER BODY WEIGHTS
SIT UPS
PUSH UPS Week 2 Day 3

Mar 19
SIT UPS

Mar 20
OUTDOOR RUN...7mi, 1hr 13min 8sec, (10:26 pace), 57* with a slight wind *Started out bad, got a side stitch RIGHT at the start that had me thinking I might need to turn around and head home, but I went ahead and ran thru it to see if it would go away and about a mile and a 1/2 into the run it did. HALLELUJAH! The rest of the run went fine until the last tenth of a mile when I started to get a tummy ache. I ended the run about a 1/2 mile from home and that walk home was TORTURE. Not only was my tummy super upset but I had to use the 'water closet' like nobody's business. I can only imagine what the people in the houses I passed on the walk home must of thought. I felt yucky the whole rest of the day. I think I may not have eaten enough for breakfast before this run. Lesson learned.

Mar 21
ELLIPTICAL 6.8mi, 32:00 (tempo pace)
SIT UPS

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All in all, a great last couple of weeks of workouts. I have my first 5K race of the season coming up on April 30th. Super excited. Its a ladies/gals only race to benefit the local woman's shelter here in town. This is the 2nd year of the race. It's going to be hilly though so I am only hoping to finish, I have no pace goals in mind. I'll be doing it with a bunch of friends as well so that is the icing AND sprinkles on the cake.

I am thinking of incorporating HIIT into my workout regimen (High Intensity Interval Training). I have the book 'Ready, Set, Go!' by Phil Campbell and am about 1/2 way thru the book. Does anyone else do this? If so what do you think?