Time: 1:13:04
Length: 6 (ish....Gmaps doesn't show the pathways around campus so it's hard to measure exactly, and my computer hates mapmyruns :o( So I know I did at least 6. There might have been a few extra tenths though that I missed)

It's been a great couple of days. (See previous post about last day of class party time.)

But today rocked because I ran six miles this morning....after I had seriously contemplated going back to sleep. It was hummmmmid outside. It felt like I was breathing water and not air. They're calling for thunderstorms and I hope we get them so this ridiculously humidity drops (just preferably tomorrow so that I can go to the baseball game tonight and my softball games don't get rained out tomorrow)

So today's run was definitely the longest I've gone since summer when I was doing my marathon training. Everything was going great. I started out nice and slow to get my legs warmed out (and because I always have a tendency to start too fast and not having anything left in the tank at the end.) The second half of mile one was a bit of struggle, but I think my body was just not down with how warm and humid it was because by mile two things were feeling pretty good. I was crusing along through mile 3 when my left leg started bothering me again just like it did last week when I was doing my longer run. Just some kind of crazy tightness and pain in my left shin making it hard for me to flex my left foot when I picked it up off the ground.

Instead of stopping like last week, I slowed my pace a little bit and kept pushing through figuring it would go away. Normally I'm not a big fan of the pushing through it mentality, but I just had a feeling that if I stopped I would lose all motivation to keep going. So it annoyed me probably until about mile 4.5, but then it went away and I felt like I was running awesomely. My legs were tired and the heat and humidity were getting pretty uncomfortable but I somehow managed to run the entire six miles without having to stop to walk once.

Unfortunately I forgot to add a new part to the course I mapped out so I ended up being too close to home way to fast. It wasn't a big problem, I just kept running to add the distance. The crappy part was that I had to end on a really big hill, which was just killer on my legs.

Overall I'm super happy with my run. Running in the morning always makes my days start off better. What I lose in sleep time, I totally gain in a happier outlook on the day.

Anyway, I'm off to waste my study day not studying for finals and instead lounging around doing lots of nothing until the baseball game tonight! I figure I've earned it.

Well sort of. I still have finals to get through....but still the last day of class always calls for a minor celebration -- dinner with the gang followed by The Office.

I'm sort of intrigued by this new show on ABC, Traveler. It's about the two guys who are framed for blowing up a museum. Interesting. It was a sneak preview tonight and the real series doesn't start until May 30.

As far as today's workout of running vs. cross-training....decided to go with the cross training because I'm going to go for six miles tomorrow morning. I know a long run on Friday is a bit different, but I have softball Saturday and don't want to keep slacking on my long runs.

I'm really really glad to be done with class and I'm so looking forward to the end of the semester when finals are over and I leave for the beach for a week. Here's what's standing in the way: 1 film final on Monday (I'm taking the class pass/fail and therefore am not concerned as long as I get a D in the class I still get credit and it doesn't affect my GPA) 1 psychology final on Thursday (I need a 77 on the final to pull an A in the class, but her tests are tricky because their are short answers, which requires a lot of memorization, studying for this will suck), 1 take home law final due Thursday (these tests take at least 6 hours to complete and our teacher grades extremely tough. I love the class and the teacher and I'm borderline A/B sooooo unfortunately I will be spending a lot of time on that one). So really it's not too bad.

I just want it to be done so I can go to the beach. My friends and I got a house in Rehoboth and we're going for the week to relax and unwind after finals before all of our summer internships start. I'm looking forward to getting in some nice runs in a different setting. I love running in beach towns there's always so much cool stuff to look at. So that will definitely spice things up a bit!

Just one more week left. I can totally make it!

Time: 36:00
Length: 3.2 (Gmaps is amazing! Thanks to all who left links on where I could find my mileage!)

Getting out the door to run this morning was not the most enjoyable moment of my life. I was tired and when I looked out the window at 6:30 it was grey and yucky out. But I dragged myself out of bed, hopped on my computer to check the weather and saw it was 62 degrees outside. Not too shabby I thought. Nice temp. for a run.

So I got dressed, laced up the sneakers and headed out.....to be smacked in the face with humidity. Whooo it was nasty outside. I hate running in humidity. It stinks a lot.

But anyway, I started out slow to get myself going and did some sort of speed workout. I wouldn't call it a tempo run because I didn't hold the same pace the entire time. I also wouldn't but I don't know if I could call it interval work either. My training plan calls it a tempo run, but ehhh I don't know. Anyway, what I did was 10 minutes at regular pace and then picked it up for 10 minutes at a faster pace and then dropped back to regular pace for the last 16 minutes of the run.

It seemed like working on foot turn over was a good goal for today. Tomorrow's supposed to be a running day according to the training schedule, but I think I'm going to swap it up for cross-training because I need to bump my long run from Saturday to Friday, and I don't want to have run three days in a row right before a long run. I think this week's long run is supposed to be six miles. Since GMaps is my new favorite toy, I'm sure I'll be spending plenty of time on there plotting out my course.

Tomorrow is the last day of classes for the semester! WAHOOOOO!!!!