After running a PR on Saturday’s half marathon, I was sore for a few days. I have 20 miles on Saturday and wanted to take it easy this week. Monday was a rest day (which I would have bumped up Thursday’s 5 miler because of my work schedule). Tuesday I had 5 scheduled and did […]
Month: January 2013
Lake Benbrook Half – Impromptu race
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 […]
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 […]
my running journey
I remember when I first started running as an adult. I lived in Gresham, Oregon (outside of Portland). I was 50lbs plus overweight and I knew running was the way to lose the weight. My BF and I met at the local high school track. I had a 6 month old at the time and […]
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 […]
rain rain rain
So, here in North Texas it was predicted that it would rain starting today. The rain was predicted for the afternoon so I thought, “Great, I’ll run in the morning and beat the rain.” That is exactly what I did, I headed out at 9am and it was drizzling. I wore my rain jacket, my […]
Wow so tired all the time
This weekend I realized I need more hours of sleep especially since my mileage has increased. Last week my miles added up, 4 Tuesday, 8 Wednesday, (I skipped Thursday..oops), and 16 on Saturday. I took a short nap after my run on Saturday. Then I went and ran some errands with the family. Sunday morning, […]