Interval training

7 miles & a 1 mile walk for the warmdown - So it appears I AM a fair weather runner, apparently when it comes to rain although the snow didn't bother me. Bizarre. It just feels much worse to be wet and cold than dry and cold if ya know what I mean. So, my poor dad, farming sucks right now with all this cold weather and rain... news stories at night on the fears of the farms in replanting because the crops that went in the beautiful early spring are now dying. *sigh* Oh, Iowa weather. So, compared to my dad's concerns, mine are nothing. I actually look forward to my tuesday nights with TBL runs. 2 hours on a treadmill and I look forward to it? I know, it shocks me as well. I get so inspired with Bob or Jillian are yelling at the contestants while on the treadmill that my pace automatically picks up and it throws me off. LOL. So for this evening, I did a bit of what I saw... interval training. I did 6 miles at 10 min mile pace (6.0) and then did interval training for each .05 mile the last mile going all the way up to 7.5 at times. It was a lot of fun and believe it or not that last mile flew by. Weird how 6.0 seemed slow when I ramped it up. Also, I actually felt thinner after this run. That's right thinner and more fit. I'm digging this and can't believe I didn't do more of it during my treadmill running over the winter!