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 […]
Long runs
My long runs are in the double digits now! 10miles the Sat after Thanksgiving then the set back of 7 miles. My last long run was 12 miles. The day before, Friday, i went to the gym and took a bldy works class. That class was a lifting class and it included alot of squats!!! […]
Thanksgiving week recap
Thanksgiving came and went and it was too short. Needless to say it was a fun week. I spent the first part of the week working, (Mon-Wed). My inlaws came on Saturday, the 15th so we had a busy house. The training runs for the week were: 3 Tuesday, 4 Wednesday, 3 Thursday, and 10 […]
Running with doggies
I learned a hard lesson last Saturday, 11/10. A 5 miler was scheduled for that day, part of our set back week. Every third week in our running schedule we cut back a few miles to get us ready for another set of long runs the following two weeks. I decided to stay close to […]
Tired
I’m only on week 3 of my marathon training and I have felt more tired. I know that there are other factors to think about, stress from work, anxiety about the future…etc. I ran my fastest 4 miler on Wednesday, 34:32. Yippy! Felt proud and no soreness. I skipped Thursday’s 3 miler and today is […]
First solo long run
Yesterday was the first long run on the training plan. It was a 6 miler, nothing too daunting, yet. I ran them alone, the boys didn’t want to join me on their bikes and I opted not to take the dogs. It was chilly and I realized from winters past I am not a good cold weather […]
worthiness
Wow, I am struck by the opportunity that I have here. It’s amazing that I was at a place of employment where I felt like I was worthless and that everything I did was not appreciated, yet I was just showered with praise in a matter of minutes and the people that did are potentially […]
One week down
First week of marathon training and let’s see, I’m really tired, stressed, over worked, looking forward to a embarking on something new in the next few weeks, and feeling in between emotionally. It’s hard to explain it. On Tuesday I ran my 3 miles on a treadmill, Wednesday I was supposed to run 3 and […]
Clarity
This morning I woke up, confused as to why I was up so early, “What am I supposed to be doing today?” “Why is it so dark out?” Since I didn’t know, I went back to sleep. 6am my second alarm went off and when I looked at my phone it said, “GET UP AND […]
Official training starts tomorrow…
Tomorrow is the official start of my marathon training. I’ll be using Higdon’s novice 1 program. It’s an 18 week program and yes I got the app for it. I’m excited and nervous at the same time. I looked at the calendar and the mileage gets incredibly high. The most I’ve ever run is 14 […]