The best thing about marathon training is the confidence builder. Last year when the Cow Town half marathon was coming up I remember thinking, “I need to start training for this race.” I began running more and more around November and then come February I headed out to the race and finished at my regular […]
Marathon Training
18 mile recap
Last Saturday, 1-19-2013, we had an 18 mile run scheduled. Throughout the week I was pumped. I ran my 5 mile, 9 mile, and 5 mile run then rested up for my long run. Tiffany and I agreed to meet up at 7am. Our friend Veronica met us too. She’s training for the half and […]
Snow, ice, 15 degree windchill
This week it has been really cold so far. Yesterday I ran 4 miles on the treadmill because of the bitter cold and today I woke up to thunder, snow, sleet, and ice. 5 miles on the treadmill. I am so glad I have it as an option. So many people complain about the treadmill, […]
9 miles with dogs
In order to guarantee negative splits I shall take my dogs. These two are complete opposites. Rusty makes it 2-2.5 miles tops. He quits part off the way and will just sit in the street. If he wiggles out if his collar he will just lie down and take a rest. Hawkeye runs and has […]
recovering
Ugh…still trying to recover from yesterday’s run. I made some minor changes before our 16 mile the week before and this week. I need to get to bed early tonight (well by 10ish) and see if I can manage to change the run schedule this week a little. My schedule looks like Tues-4, Wed-9, […]
5,8,4,12
This weeks mileage was 29miles. 5 miler on Tuesday was awesome, the 8 miler on Wed since it was pouring down rain, was on the treadmill and it went well…78minutes and I worked on hills and speed intervals. I skipped Thursday’s 4 miler and did it on my rest day, Friday. Yesterday, Friday for my […]
16 miler
This morning the alarm went off, I was tired but managed to get up. Luckily I put everything out the night before and was feeling prepared. I ate a snack bar (almond sweet and salty) took my coffee in my travel mug and off I went. I had the heater blasting, it was in […]
15 miler
Saturday I met Tiffany on the trail and we started on our 15 mile long run for the week. We swapped the set back week 10 miler for the 15 miler since she was going to be out of town and the Christmas stuff…etc. Admittedly I was nervous all week about this one. For one […]
13.1 miles Dec 15, 2012
On Saturday I met Tiffany at the trail and we began our run. 13 miles were ahead of me. The night before I went to bed at 1:30, got up at 6:45, brushed my teeth ate a nutrigrain bar and headed out to meet her by 7:30am. The first mile in I thought, “Oh man […]
Windy run
Saturday morning December 1,2012-it was actually warm, 70 degrees, cloudy, and windy. Justin accompanied me on my 7 mile run on his bike. At first I was slow and trying to get passed the wind, which was pushing me back. It was so forceful! Justin was having a hard time pedaling too. After mile 2 […]