Sweat Equity

My workout today was a bit of a struggle. I'm not sure why, but I'm having some trouble with my breathing. The weight workout went fine. (I could have gone a little heavier, but I'm not trying to look like Lou Ferigno in a bikini, sans green paint.)

It was when I got to what was to be an easy 30-minute run on the treadmill turned out to be a 20-minute struggle. My legs were looking up at me--YES, they can look--as if to say--and YES, they can talk (after a hard run, they scream)--c'mon, let's go! My lungs couldn't even cough up a retort to the eager limbs.

I'm going to give it a try in the outdoors early tomorrow morning. We'll see how that goes.

It's go time now. My running partner and I need to kick it into gear. Both of us have sort of slacked off. The half marathon is in two months!

Oy...
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Here's a little something I'm going to try, as suggested on Active.com:

A target pace is an average running pace associated with an event time goal. If your event goal is to run a 3:45 marathon, your target pace is 8:35 per mile. If your goal is to run a 39:59 10K, your target pace is 6:26 per mile. And so forth.

Whenever you have an event time goal, your entire training program should be focused toward achieving the ability to sustain your target pace in that event. This doesn't mean you should always run at your target pace, of course. But it does mean you should include some target-pace running in your weekly training throughout your training program and do a fairly large amount of training at or near your target pace in the final weeks before your event.

More on that here.