Hurts so Good

1. 0.21 mi – 9:41/mi
2. 0.21 mi – 9:25/mi
3. 0.21 mi – 9:39/mi
4. 0.20 mi – 10:10/mi
5. 0.20 mi – 9:43/mi

My quads were burning on every single one of those repeats. I kept saying different things to myself to talk it through. Things like: this is good for you, it is making you stronger…come on, suck it up, you can do anything for 2 minutes…singing bits and pieces of John Mellencamp’s “Hurts so Good”… What do you tell yourself to get you up those hills?

I finished strong on the repeats, then set back home for my cool down run. All said and done I covered 5 miles. Once back home it was time for a quickie strength work out, some abs, and some stretching. Then time for dinner! I’ve been planning ahead to cook at home more, and to make sure I’m getting tons of fruits and veggies in my diet. While I was out I had some chicken breasts marinating in some soy sauce, hoi sin sauce, garlic, hot sauce, five spice powder and pepper. I modified this recipe slightly by cutting back the oil, and leaving out the water, onion and oyster sauce (mostly because the stuff in my pantry had an expiration date of September 2007…time to throw it out maybe). I grilled it up, along with some zucchini, eggplant, red pepper and a portabello mushroom. Good stuff!