Saturday, December 31, 2016

12/31 and year end

4.4 outside; progression run and some nice woods miles! Had a total running zen moment at the top of one hill where I just stood still (after turning off my Garmin, haha!) and closed my eyes and stretched my arms out in the wind. Very dorky but fun nonetheless. :-) Avg pace 8:50/mile and felt so easy compared to TM miles!

Week: 41.7, month 179.7, streak 220, year 1357. Pretty darn happy with those miles for a year that included stress fracture rehab and pregnancy/delivery!

Friday, December 30, 2016

12/30

6.3 easy for me today (prepping to end the year on an even number!). Was planning to go outside but I did something to my back and wasn't sure how far I'd be able to run and didn't want to get stranded. Go figure that running was fine although just walking through the grocery store this morning hurt like the devil.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

12/28

6.5 today, 7 yesterday. Tibia bothering me a little where I had the stress fx last year.

Monday, December 26, 2016

12/26

10 on the TM after kids were in bed; ended at 10:30 PM. In other news, today was our 14-yr wedding anniversary!

Saturday, December 24, 2016

12/24

Christmas Eve!

4.2 outside; progression run

Mile 1: 9:08
Mile 2: 8:55
Mile 3: 8:22
Mile 4: 7:52

Weekly miles: 41.2, monthly: 138, streak miles:178.3

Friday, December 23, 2016

12/23

6 easy on the TM that felt anything but easy--finished at 10 PM after a day at the Children's Museum (so basically I walked all over creation, didn't drink enough water, ate french fries, and barely made it through my run without throwing up).

6.5 outside yesterday pushing Matthew in the jogging stroller

6.5 Wed on the TM--very blah run with intervals


Tuesday, December 20, 2016

12/20

7 on TM; easy with HMP 1-minute intervals every half-mile. Pretty low energy thanks to a baby who wanted to party all night.

Monday, December 19, 2016

12/19

10 miles at 9:42 today; 1 mile walking yesterday for streak purposes.

Saturday, December 17, 2016

12/17

6.5 on the dang TM--can't even get to the mailbox over this ice! 36 for the week and still tired even with the cutback. Next week should be less busy though, thank heavens!!

36 for the week; 96.8 for the month.

Friday, December 16, 2016

12/16

Kids have been throwing up and we're trying to sleep-train the baby, so I'm tired. 6.3 yesterday, 6.2 today.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Catching up!






































12/14:

Streak day 20--Whew! Quick 3.2 on the TM...would've loved to go longer, but I didn't start until almost 10:30, and I promised Neil I'd stop when our very gourmet dinner of frozen pizza was ready. ;-) But I baked 34 loaves of cranberry-orange bread today and spent 2 hours with all 6 of my kids but without Neil (he was working late) caroling to friends while we dropped them off, so I think I got some XT in there too. This is going to be my cutback week, apparently!

12/13:
4.5 easy and yoga; back and hip flexors have really been hurting so hopefully this will help!

12/12:
Late late night 8.3

12/11
1 mile walking to keep streak going (Sunday, so no run)

12/10

6.4 outside with Neil AND Matthew--his first run!! (Top photo) Beautiful beautiful day for a run and so nice to get outside...looks like I'm averaging 1 outdoor run per month post-baby. Yikes. Ended the week at 42 which I was really happy about--good thing bc I think this week is going to be a big cutback just because it's so busy. 

Thursday, December 8, 2016

12/8

Squeezed in 6 at 9:37/mile. I'm surprised this run felt so good after the 7 times I was up last night with the baby!

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Monday, December 5, 2016

12/5

Streak day 12; 8.3 at 10:17/mile. Stopped at 11:10 PM bc I was just too darn tired to go any further. Definitely going to be a cutback week; kids are booked solid every single day after school and if I see another "Five Days of Secret Santa" letter come home from the school I'm going to implode.

Sunday, December 4, 2016

12/4

Streak day 11: 1.2 walking through the first snow! Completely soaked by the time I got back in (very heavy and wet) but oh so beautiful!

Saturday, December 3, 2016

12/3

8 very late pretty crappy miles after doing all kinds of Christmas stuff downtown with the kids after a baby shower this morning that completely knocked out my chance for an outside run. Plus the pinkeye I was battling last week came back with a vengeance today when I finally wore contacts again. Stopped at 6 to feed the baby, then realized I was .8 from 40 for the week so I started again and ran 2 more. And now it's midnight.

41.2* for the week; 18.8 for December.

*After a ridiculous amount of inner debate, I decided to count the walking miles on Sundays (1.2 from this week) that I'm doing specifically for the streak in my weekly totals, although I don't count all the other walking miles that I normally do post-run to cool down. But this also bugged me enough that I ran that extra 2 tonight rather than just the .8 so that I could hit the 40 with running miles. Seriously--I have spent WAY too much time thinking about this.

Friday, December 2, 2016

12/2

Streak day 9:
7.2 intervals on TM; progressively ratcheted up speed/interval length every mile to make it a little more interesting.

Thursday, December 1, 2016