3 more days!!!

I am so excited! Only 3 more days of work and then I am free! I actually think I might head to work early today to get a jump start on the ton of filing I want to get done before I go. Seriously, who am I?

I love fried eggs! Over medium? I'm not sure what they're called, but I have my mom make them for me. Because I suck whenever I have tried to make them for myself. When my mom makes them the edges are all nice and crispy and the yolk is just perfectly done and runny. When I make them I can't get the edges to crisp. The whole thing, whites and yolk, come out looking and tasting raw. And I'm lucky if the yolk doesn't pop while I'm cooking it. I am so grateful for my mom.

***Marathon training
Plan: Weights (upper body), 4 miles - hard, strides

Warmup: .5 miles, 5.5.

Weights:
* Back exercises on tricep machine. 100 lb. 2 x 20.
* Shoulder exercises (tap in front of you, press and tap above) with dumbbells on bosu. 8 lbs. 2 x 12. *Note to self. Do not do these again. I felt my left shoulder, which is prone to injury, start to hurt while doing these.
* Chest fly on bosu. 8 lb dumbbells. 2 x 12.
* Back row. 50 lb. 2 x 12.
* Shoulder/back cross exercise on cable machine. 2.5 lb. 2 x 12.
* Rotator cuff exercise on cable machine. 2.5 lb. 2 x 20 each side.
* Pushups with toes on medicine ball. 2 x 12.
* Wide grip pull ups on assist machine. 55 lb. 2 x 12. *Haha. I had to grunt during the last 3 of the second set. These got hard!
* Tricep dips on assist machine. 55 lb. 2 x 12.

Run:
I was feeling super tired from the get go so I thought I would take it easy and try doing a semi-hard 5.7 instead of my hard 6.0 for the whole run. I wound up feeling better as the run progressed and did a progression run.
Mile 1: 5.7
Mile 2: 5.8
Mile 3: 5.9
Mile 4: 6.0

By the time I got to Mile 4 I was feeling happy and bouncy and wanted to go faster, but knew I had to save some energy for my strides.

Strides:
30 seconds at 8.0, 1 minute at 4.0. Do 4 times.
The first interval was hard. But the ensuing ones were much easier. I guess my body just needs to warm up to things.

The treadmill read 4.8 miles by the time I finished. Combine that with my half mile warm up and that's 5.3 miles for the day and weights. Awesome!