Seahawks Halftime Show

South Beach Day 8 (Sunday) was a little better, but not the greatest.

I woke up at 10am to get ready to meet at the mall at noon. Snowflake Lane is performing in the Seahawk's halftime show, and Sunday was our rehearsal day. We'll perform next week, on the 22nd!

I had my breakfast of choice: 3 Eggs.

While I waited for them to cook, I munched on some hummus and cucumbers.

Then I was off to Snowflake Lane! Unfortunately the buses were late, so we had to wait around a while, but then by 1:15 I found myself stepping onto a Big Yellow School Bus for the first time in I have no idea how many years.

Ughhhh

We arrived at CenturyLink field without a hitch.

Inside the tunnel!

It was really cold!

I'll be standing inbetween the South 30 and 35, facing the Visitor's side

It was such a cool experience. However, we had to literally RUN on and off the field 4 times (4 times on, 4 times off) which I'd have to say is at least .5 miles, if not more. My legs were killing me, and my "breakfast" wasn't exactly the best fuel.

It took FOREVER to get back to Bellevue because of the Christmas shopping rush, so I figured I'd just go to Chipotle and get a salad (with guacamole, of course) and call it a day.

I performed in Snowflake Lane that night, and promptly came home and went to sleep at 9:30. Yep. The weekend was non-stop and I just needed some rest!

Chipotle is the Best Motivator

BOOM!

Perfect weather!

I got this close to getting those negative splits I've been aiming for. Alas - had I been 9 seconds faster, I would have nailed it! I really need to work on not going out too fast. Now, I know all those 8's may seem super slow to you speedy racers, but damn, that's fast for me. When I first started running, I started out at barely an 11 minute pace, and I yes yes I know you have to start somewhere, but usually anything under 9 min/mile is pushing it for me.

Knowing that a 5K is .1 miles longer, and basing it off the average time of 8'33" (fastest this week!!), my 5K time would have been about 26:34, which is faster than my very first Turkey Trot! And this wasn't even a race! And it was mostly uphill! This is how I felt afterwards:

Another picture of my sweaty face (and sweat stains) - again, you're welcome.

I'm definitely going to try to incorporate more hills into my runs to get ready for San Francisco. I'm eager for Nike to release the course map so I can adequately gauge how intensely I need to train on hills, but until then, I can just make it my goal to add as many hills as I can. Although, it must be said that this run didn't have many flats runs on it - mostly either uphill or downhill.

Before my run, I ate this:

http://www.larabar.com/products/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough

I'm not even sure if I can count that as my fuel source for my run, because I ate it about 3 hours before I went outside. I really wanted to go run earlier, but I kept pushing the time back because I felt tired and unmotivated.

Motivation is really becoming a problem for me - even just getting up out of my chair! Sometimes people say you just need to get dressed in your work out clothes and then it's automatic, but for me I just got dressed and then sat right back down and procrastinated some more.

By the time my boyfriend got home, I had migrated to lying on the couch in a lazy Friday afternoon haze. The only way he could coax me off the couch was by promising we would go to Chipotle when I got back from my run- boy did that get me out the door! What a great guy :). So, I could say it was the Larabar that made me run so fast... but it also might have been the promise of delicious Chipotle in my belly.

Well deserved and delicious chicken/steak salad! YUM.

So ends Week 1 of training! I have 2 rest days ahead of me that I'll be using to stretch and clean my damn apartment - I'll feel so much better after all of that is done!

Do you have a magic, pre-run bar/meal that you eat to ensure an awesome workout?