my mind is elsewhere

I have been slacking. I have many excuses. Let's review them...

• Its too cold to run outside
• I have too much homework
• I'm too tired
• I want to sit in my bed and eat Doritos

I know I need to stop making excuses and start running again. I promise I will go tomorrow. Harriet will be very cross with me, but I think we can work it out. Uhh I did a little peeking at the schedule and I'm supposed to be able to run 20 minutes straight by the end of next week. I think I might need to repeat a week to get back on track. The 5k isn't until the end of May so I do have the time. I also need to make a running playlist for my ipod, when a bad songs comes on and I'm in the middle of a run it throws me off.

I'm gearing up for a little vacation to San Francisco! I hear that all of the streets are crazy hills. That counts as running right?

learnin'

I thought I would post more details about my interval training. I'm on week 4 right now. This is what I have done so far, each week requires 3 runs.

Week 1 - 8 x 1 minute runs (walk for 1.5 minutes between each run)

Week 2- 6 x 1.5 minute runs (walk for 2 minutes between each run)

Week 3 - run 1.5 minutes, walk 1.5 minutes, run 3 minutes, walk 3 minutes (repeat twice!)

Week 4- run 3 minutes, walk 1.5 minutes, run 5 minutes, walk 2.5 minutes, (repeat twice!)

I should also mention each run has a 5 minute warm up and cool down of brisk walking.

Apparently week 9 is 30 minutes of straight running.

run etienne runnnn!

yum?

I didn't run yesterday. I ate Mexican food instead. BUT this is the first run I've skipped...so stop judging me.

On an un-related note, check out my friend Becky interviewing me about my time as an au pair!

http://podcasts-with-becky.yolasite.com/resources/BeckyAuPairSaraf.mp3