"Pain is weakness leaving the body." Anonymous

If you want change, you have to be the change.  I want to run faster which means that I have to do the work so that my body is willing and ready to be faster.  It would be lovely to wake up on race day and run 2:00 for the Half but unfortunately, I cannot just will it to happen.

Yesterday I went running in the park with Baci and my running friend to work on speed training.  We ran to the park and alternated laps with jogging and sprinting.  The Kelly Clarkson song 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' kept looping in my mind!  

I couldn't get around the whole park sprinting without taking one (or more) short break.  I have a summer goal!

Running 5 km with alternate fast laps was much harder than running 12 km at an easy pace.  So glad that to be successful in increasing your speed, you only have to run intervals once a week.

Both of us were exhausted for the rest of the afternoon

Baci 'smiling' after our run