Run Ford Run...

My blog title is inspired by my recently renamed running playlist. :)  Today was a long run day for me....  I guess before I go any further I've decided to train for a half marathon in April....I have two spots to choose from - one is in a town closer to me and the other is in OKC and is wrapped up on the love of the OKC memorial and honoring those who were lost that day (as well as their families)...normally this would be a no brainer and I would choose OKC.  This will be my first half marathon and I'm thinking about favorable conditions for me to actually complete it....I hear the wind can be a killer and the weather can be tricky....so I'm trying to make up my mind before the entry fee gets any more expensive...I'm already going to have to pay $85 at this point...so hopefully I'll make my mind up soon!

So back to today's run (not really, but almost)  -for the last couple of weeks I've been running about 4-5 mornings and was working my way back into running by doing intervals....35 minutes at a pretty fast pace, but I was definitely run/walking and not run/jogging.  So today I decide to program in 65 minutes on the treadmill and run for as long as I could...I had 4 stops (one included my 3 minute cool down at the end) and I ran 50 minutes out the the 65 and walked the other 15 (again, at different points)...I ran at 4.4/4.5 and walked at 3.7/3.8 and logged in a little over 4.5 miles (4.76)....my mile/min pace varied from 13.3 -15.4 - the walking in between killed me, but I am still pretty happy because I ran a long time between walking.  So I'm pretty happy with myself for now...hopefully I can step it up a bit next week. :)

Meals today have been a little small -
slim fast shake for breakfast
small baked potato w/low fat s.cream and low fat cheese for lunch
a mini cinnamon bagel with tsp of peanut butter
A TON of water and
4 lemon drops - which I learned contains 70 calories!  I love candy so I still have to sneak a little in here and there. 

I'm not sure what's for dinner - the hubster and the kiddos when squirrel Hunter  and I am supposed to be working on a paper....so I don't plan on cooking much.  Think I might let the hubster figure it out tonight. 


 I'm off to get back to work.