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, […]
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 […]
Christmas week and New Years
The toughest part about running and commitment to training is most people don’t get it and tend to look at you funny when you continue to follow the plan. So here is how it went for me, we ran 15 miles the Saturday the 22nd. Sunday the 23 my little sister came into town. Monday the 24th […]
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 […]
This morning’s short run-December 13, 2012
I went to bed Wednesday night December 12th and thought, “I’ll wake up early, run my 3 miles and get ready for work…etc” alarm went off and I shut it off, rolled over and went back to sleep. My knees are sore, my back is sore, and I am just feeling exhausted! “Stupid Running!” Just […]