World According to Shia

OMG I just read the most AWESOMEST (yes a word) thing in Self .  According to Self, if you have fell off the workout wagon --- previously toned muscle fibers can bounce back quickly, even after three months of inactivity!  OMG this is AWESOME news....a week of being sick isn't going to get Shia down!  I will make it!!!  YAY!!!

So as always just when I get on a roll....BAM!  Detour!  I've been sick with a stomach flu since last Wednesday night.  I'm still not 100%.  I now know why the plague spread so fast...staying home in bed for days makes you WANT to go out and give it to other people...lol.   I think I'm on a break from running until at least this weekend.  Then I have two weeks until the race.  Taller and I spoke today and I think I am over thinking I can just run it without stopping.  I think some occasional breaks will be okay.  My goal is to run it in less than 45 mins.  I can't believe how much torture I am feeling about less an hour of my life.   So I have some great blogs in the works.  So stay tuned!

So Taller said I have to stop using this word.  However, might can also mean strength...so I am going to switch from thinking and saying that I might be able to do this race to I have the might to do this race.  So today, I went a little farther 6.64k in 1:01:04 with a pace of 9:11/k.  My plan is to do this again tomorrow and Friday.  Work out at home this weekend then run 2.5k at lunch without stopping and walk the 2.5k back.  Then the next week full on run it all and then I still have a week to tweak stuff.  

So instead of doing my new loop twice I decided to walk to the nearest Publix to get a chicken wrap.  Since it is over the 5k amount and I had to of course make it back I decided that I would walk it and see how long it took.  What you may not know is that I am like the fastest (at normal walking speeds) walker ever.  People always make comments on how fast I walk.  Also, I truly believe that I get more of a work out when I walk long distances than run.  Anywho, I walked to Publix which according to my Nike chip (which I love) is 6.35k away from the office.  I walked half of it in 31 mins and I made it back in 59:18!   My overall pace was 9:19 per km.  So I technically I just walked a 5k in about 46 and a half mins!  Folks my goal is to RUN it in 45!  Perhaps Shia CAN do this.....

So yesterday was Groundhog's Day...did that massive gerbil say anything about thunderstorms in February?  Seriously folks I couldn't sleep because the thunder was so loud and all night!  I guess that is what happens when the weather drastically drops from the 70s with high humidity to the 40s within a few hours.  So of course, it's raining so what am I supposed to do for a run?  Part of me is seriously considering just running in the rain or running around the parking garage...neither of which sound like that great of an idea.  Hmmmm according to the weather on news4jax.com it looks like it will stop raining around 3pm.  So that is when I am going to head out.