Tony warned me that today's run would be more difficult than our last one, and he was definitely right! I wasn't expecting it be to quite as grueling as I ultimately found it, but about half way through my alloted run time, I began to doubt myself.

I originally set out to just replicate what I last did (namely 20 minutes of running at 4 mph), but I wound up changing my mind right before my run. I decided to up the ante a little and pushed my total running time up to 22 minutes (@ 4 mph). It was hella hard, but in the end I did it! I ran for 22 mph @ 4 mph (the last minute I actually went all out and boosted the speed to 4.2 mph), covering a grand total of 1.89 miles of tread. During running, my maximum incline was 3.

To keep myself motivated during running, I've been listening to audiobooks on my ipod. I won't lie: the current novel I'm listening to is "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer, the third book in a vampire series aimed at young adults. It is not good writing, and pretty cheesy and bad, yet I cannot overcome my curiosity to know what happens. I'm limiting myself to only visiting the story when I run, so that I keep up with running and don't back out of it. Despite the poor prose, I find the story sufficiently engaging that it acts as an appropriate motivator. I'm not sure what I'll move on to once I finish the book/series (there is one more book, which will be released in August), but I'm sure I'll find something else that is fluffy enough for these runs!

Not too sure what my goal is for Thursday's run. I'm thinking of just trying to boost my run time by 1 minute, but we'll see how things go!