Today's Workout (11/6/08)

I am trying to figure out why I was able to run at 8mph for 3 miles straight, but when I try to do intervals on the treadmill I struggle with 8mph for only 2 minutes! I was dieing!! Maybe it was the adrenaline from doing the race, or better yet, the thought that kept running though my head was "I want to run this faster then my trainer can run a 5k so that I can be better than him at SOMETHING" that kept me going. I'm not sure...

1. 35 minutes treadmill--ass kicking, exhausting intervals. 2 min @ 8mph, 1 min @ 6.5mph for 30 minutes, then a 5 minute cool down. Total--4.16 miles. This almost killed me, I wanted to drop it to 7.5 when I got to about 20 minutes, but I didn't because when I do things like that my trainer calls me a wuss. So I stuck it out and I'm glad I did, I got a really good workout!
2. 30 minute bootcamp class--This was an odd class, the room we usually do the class in was not available, we were going to run up to the other gym, but it was raining. So we ended up on the 3rd floor of the building in the hallway doing all kinds of crap. Sprints, mt climbers, jumping jacks, jump squats...