Tough Chik - Proven

This morning I woke up {ready or not} to get the kiddos off to school and then myself out for a run.  Mother Nature was messing up my plan.  It was dark, drizzly and WINDY.  It was literally howling around my house... The girls thought there was a werewolf in our yard (where did that come from?).  I pretty much succumbed to the fact that it would be a treadmill kind of morning. <ugh>

And then Amanda (my Ragnar team buddy!) posted this on Facebook...

Aw, crap!  It's like she was speaking right to me.

So I went out and stood on my deck.  Temperature was hovering around 32-33 degrees, so it wasn't terribly cold... but that damn wind!  Oh, what the heck... I got dressed and headed out.

On the agenda today was a 6 mile Tempo run.  I started off the first two miles at a comfortable pace (10:30ish).  These was a slight drizzle in the air that later changed to flurries.  At the mile 2 mark, I cranked it up to "comfortably hard" if there is such a thing.  My mile 3-4-5 splits were nothing to brag about (all around 9:20ish).  I was working much harder than indicated by my stopwatch.  My neighborhood is a little hilly, nothing extreme, but just a constant rolling up and down.  And the wind gave good resistance. Several times a big wind gust made me nearly stop in my tracks. It was one of those runs where you know you're building something...

When I finished this torturous tempo, my cooldown mile felt great, like a victory lap.  I did it!  No doubt about it today, I'm a TOUGH CHIK.

And the WINNER of my Blogiversary Giveaway

chosen randomly here...

...is BETH S!!

Email me {here} with your mailing address to claim your prize.

Thank you everyone for making it a great Blogiversary!