This week has been pretty fantastic in the energy department. I've heard that when you hit 12 weeks you return to normal again and even have extra energy. Oddly enough, it's true and thank God! This is the first week in a long time that I haven't had the urge to sleep at my desk while the kids were at lunch, take a nap when I get home from work, go to be early, and I even managed to get up at 4:45am to make it to a morning gym class!
This morning I got up at 7 and headed down to the trail for a long run. While I was super slow, or so I felt, I ended up running 6.3 miles in 1 hr. 8 min. That averaged out to about 12:30 min/miles. I used my heart rate monitor for the first time and realized something. My heart rate while walking is 140bpm. How the hell am I supposed to continue working out when my walking heart rate is that!? I'll tell you how. Listen to my body. I always knew my heart rate got up there as soon as I started my work out. I just didn't know exactly where my range was. Now I know so I did my best to keep it between 170-175bpm.
I then went on to volunteer at the SPCA to run the dogs where I got another 2 miles of walking down for the day. After that we went strawberry picking and guess what? Haven't went into a coma yet. Woo woo!
Our Little Lady
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