Ah, the 4th of July. An excuse for millions of Americans to eat too much, drink too much, blow shit up, litter, and call it National Pride. Unfortunately, I demonstrated some patriotism myself and participated in the first 2 activities on that list. Although I did get in a good 25 mile ride yesterday (at least my only physical activity wasn't Bocce Ball!) and ate healthy for MOST of the day, it all went downhill when we went to a really great barbeque with our new friend, MaryLou, in West Seattle. It was quite a great spread, the fat content of which I hope I never learn (mmm...ribs...mmm...potato salad...mmmm...pasta
salad...mmm...chicken....mmmm...beer....mmm carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese icing...god bless America!), but I felt this morning. I went to bed still too full and I had an interval run to do this morning. Not surprisingly, I felt like I had a spare tire around my tummy. It was NOT the run experience that I wanted to have as my last one before Sunday's race, but it wasn't totally awful and, by the end, I decided to finish beating myself up for my nutritional misbehavior (at least I didn't damage anything else and contribute to the ridiculous amount of blown up fireworks garbage all around Greenlake...gross) and just make better decisions for the next few days. Made a quick trip to the gym after the run to get in my weights and, amazingly enough, I'm starting to think I might be interested in food again before next week!
Interval run summary:
2 mile warm up: 18:20
3 x 400:
1:48
1:46
1:44
1 x 800: 4:43
Highest HR on intervals = 168
1.5 mile cool down: 13:28
Total: 5.75 miles
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