You Asked My Opinion

Today's work-out was hard.  It sucked and was yucky and was not much fun.   I essentially live on the training course for the Oklahoma State University Cross Country team.  An NCAA Division 1 National Champion (although not currently) cross country team.  They train here.  On this XC course.  Across the street from my house.  Last weekend was the Cowboy Jamboree, the longest continuously held XC races (78 years!!).  Lots of college runners, high school runners, junior high runners, and middle school runners.  Kids were dreading it because they know there are no PRs on this course.  I saw a kid break her ankle.  It had hills and ravines.  It's a hard flippin course.   And that's what I decided to run tonight. Ugh.   It was supposed to be 4 "easy" miles plus strides  At this point in my training, there is no such thing as "4 easy miles", but I tried not to push too hard.  But then I hit the hills.  I stop...

Well this is insanely important.  How did I miss this?  http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/knealf I honestly thought I had forgotten to link my fundraising page here.  Oops.  Sorry, now you just get to see the link more. http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/knealf Ok.  One more, just in cases: http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/knealf

Thursday I had to run on a hotel treadmill. Ugh.  I've never liked treadmills and hotel ones are the worst.  Let me rephrase that.  I am completely awkward on treadmills.  I'm sure that treadmill was perfectly fine.  The problem with treadmills is I am constantly either going too fast or too slow.  The extra problem with hotel treadmills, or any foreign treadmill, is I'm never on it long enough or frequently enough to figure out how to not be awkward.  Oh well.  I walked briskly and didn't really vary my speed much, but I worked the incline.  That's gotta count for something, right? I made that incline my b*tch.

A girl needed a project and a goal and a reason to get off the couch.   Ten Reasons to Donate to my Team in Training Goal http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/knealf 1. Leukemia and Lymphoma Society ( http://www.lls.org/ ) provides academic grants, continuing education and drug development partnerships. 2. The quicker I reach my fundraising goal, the quicker I can focus on running training. http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/knealf 3. "LLS research grants have funded many of today's most promising advances, including targeted therapies and immunotherapies and some of the therapies first approved for blood cancer patients are now helping patients with other types of cancers and other serious diseases. " - http://www.lls.org/#/aboutlls/researchsuccesses/ 4. The quicker I reach my fundraising goal, the more funds get donated to LLS.  http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/knealf 5. "...helping patients with other types of cancers a...