Race week: Tuesday

Today started out with me turning off my alarm clock at 6:00 and resetting it for 7... I wasn't ready to get up yet. I was cold and tired so jumped back in bed. I slept another 20 mins or so then got up and decided to just get ready and have my coffee and do my normal morning routine, but hold off on the running until AFTER my presentation thing. The morning was relaxed (my FAVOURITE part of the day) as usual and I just chilled and rehearsed what I wanted to say.


I met up with Katie and Derek at the library and we organized and few thigns then went and got set-up in class. THE PRESENTATION WENT AMAZINGLY!!! The class was engaged throughout and the teacher said it was the best yet as we covered all the material perfectly and tied in a lot of the theories that we learned in class. So we're going to get some wicked marks there and it's worth 40% of my final mark and I already got an 8.5/10 for a poster thing that was worth 10% and then I handed in a paper last week that I THINK I did pretty well on! :)

After class Jared and I met up and headed over to the gym. I had ran through my plan of attack for the workout a few times and the general goal was to set a good tempo and just kick it for a while. Maybe to a 2k warm-up and then do a tempo run of 10k or so. Well I warmed up for 2k at about 4:40/k pace and then at 2k put it right up to 4:20/k pace and from there went up .1km/h faster on teh treadmill until I hit 14.0k at around 59:30 and then just sprinted home to the hour mark in 14.15km total, that's a 4:15/km pace! That means that I was on sub 1:30 pace and if I had warmed up BEFORE the run and got right into a faster pace (as I would do in a race) then I'd have been even faster. What made this run especially amazing was that I was so mentally tough during the "tough parts" which didn't even seem that tough! I'm DRAINED right now but feel amazing at the good workout I had. I still have 5 hours of class though. :)

So there's Tuesday! I look forward to sleeping tonight. :)