Week 4 Half-Marathon Training

When I go to Gold's Gym to run, I almost always go into their movie room. This morning I got to run while watching Russell Crowe. It was a Robin Hood movie (I even think that's the name of it). I knocked out 7 miles in 70 minutes. I love it when they are playing movies I've never seen before, it makes the time go by so much faster. I missed running with Jennifer, but I was NOT pushing the double jogger for 7 miles, so the gym it was for me. Hopefully next week we can run together - it's 8 miles of fun on the schedule.
I'm very proud of myself for maintaining the pace I did today. I ran the first 4 miles in 40 minutes with an incline of 2.0 (3 minute warm-up, and then alternating between 6.4 and 6.8 for the rest of the time). Then I took a 2 minute walk break and reset the treadmill (if you run for 60 minutes it shuts off on you, and I didn't want that to happen mid run). I finished off the last 3 miles in 30 minutes still at an incline of 2.0 (mostly maintaining 6.0 speed which is 10 min/mile pace). Then I just walked for half a mile to cool down. Total time: 80 minutes for 7.5 miles. I'll take it!
My biggest problem today was my arms. I run different on the treadmill. I crowd the console (you'd think I was worried of shooting off the back of it or something - LOL), so today my arms started to tighten up. I had to let myself fall back a little so I could dangle my arms and shake them out a few times. Otherwise it was a great run for me. After today I know that I'll be able to run at least half the half-marathon without hardly any walking!!