11/7

Okay, let's give this another try.

I ran another half-marathon a month or so ago (it was not fun--85 at the start line after weeks of sub-40s temperatures and I got so so so dizzy that I had to walk around mile 12 for a few minutes and then had to lie down for about twenty minutes at the finish, but all the times for that day were terrible and the winning times were 9 minutes slower than the previous year).

Lots of stroller running this week--6 Monday, 5.34 Tuesday, took yesterday off and just walked 3 miles bc my IT bands are bugging me, 7 today. Trying to really be careful about sleeping enough and eating well because I've decided to go for a PR in the half next spring and a marathon in the fall and the best way to start my training base is doing all the little things right. So I'm going to focus on nutrition, flexibility, and sleep for a couple months and then ramp up training in January.

Man I am the worst at posting lately! Last week was 6, 4, 10, 6, 4. The week before that was 10,4, 24 (I was in NYC for my sister’s fourth round of chemo so running was patchy, but I walked ten miles most days and got in one great 14-miler from Battery Park to Central Park and back). Headed out for a run with Matthew now!

8/18

Keep forgetting to post; it's so busy.

6 Monday
5 w/ speed (ladder increase workout) Tuesday
4 easy Wed
rest Thurs (did a ton of house projects)
9 Friday
5 Saturday

7/13

ten this morning instead of the planned 8. 9:27/mile; weather pretty decent for July.

I keep not updating because there are so many other things happening and I’m just cramming runs in. But the short version is I’m making sure to get in at least five miles four times a week and do a longer run on the fifth day.

So far this week I ran 5, 6, and 6. Taking tomorrow as a rest day and then running 8 before I have scalp surgery (removal and biopsy of a five-cm lump on the back of my skull) on Friday .Hoping to run Saturday but we will see.

I was a lot less worried about this surgery when I originally scheduled it three weeks ago.  Then last week my little sister was diagnosed with cancer.

5/10

Pretty terrible 10.25 on Monday--9:38 over hills and ended up sick with heat exhaustion that evening.

5.2 easy on Tuesday (TM)

SRD Wed

5.3 Thursday (TM)

5/5

31 for the week--4 early today on the TM before the kids' games started and 5.5 very late last night after tiling the bathroom and planting the big flower bed that runs along the back of the house.

5/3

6 early today--got caught in a thunderstorm. At least it made a change from the mugginess!

"Rest" day yesterday (soooo much yard work) and 5.5 late late Tuesday night

4/30

10 hard on TM today.

Rest of last week was all outside--6 really hard, 5 medium, 4 medium. 30 total for the week.

4/24

5 easy on the TM. Had to stop 3 times in the last mile for the power button.

4/23

No run Friday, but I did manage over 7 miles walking just doing all the stuff!

10 on the TM this afternoon, interrupted by the treadmill randomly turning off--had to duct tape the power button on the back. That's fun.

4/20

Haven't updated in a month, but I've been running! Just not as much--we are doing so so so many house projects and I'm pretty drained.

Paced my friend through her first half on March 31--I think it was about 2:02. Nice easy run for me with no soreness afterwards which was nice.

5 speedwork Monday, rest Tuesday (tiled the bathroom), 10 Wednesday, 4 Thursday, 4 today. Probably won't get a run in tomorrow since kids have 4 games, I have a ton of grading, we have to grout the bathroom, Abigail's 13th birthday party is this weekend, we have people over for dinner tomorrow, and it's our turn to clean the church. Kinda survival mode right now!

3/22

Tuesday--felt like crap so walked for 50 minutes instead of running.
Wednesday--still felt terrible. 4 easyish + strength
Thursday--still feeling crummy (noticing a trend here?) 5 fast just to get it over with...Neil's been out of town all week and I am soooo ready for him to get home. I don't sleep well when he's gone and the 3 hrs/night is definitely catching up with me. :-(

3/19

last few runs:

Thursday: ran half course at 9:20/mile (13.1)

Friday: rest/strength

Sat: 5 at 9:30/mile with the kids biking alongside

Monday: strength +hard 6 on the TM. Average pace was just under 9:30 but I was feeling pretty crummy due to lack of sleep & no airflow--I've got to get a fan down here! had to stop twice because I was getting so dizzy. 

3/13

6 outside in the snow today--my plan was to keep it somewhere between 9:30 and 10 to give my legs a bit of a break after yesterday.

First mile I went too fast (9:03) so I tried to slow it down the next mile and got 9:02. Then I really tried to slow it and got 8:38 and 8:33. By this point I was pretty tired and running uphill into the wind on the way home and ended with my last two miles at 8:46 and 8:53. By that last mile it was snowing SO hard and blowing so hard that I legit could not see more than ten feet ahead of me--a third of the mile from my house I had to stop and turn around so my back was to the wind and I could breathe.

6 total at 8:49

3/12

Dang, I keep forgetting to update!

Last week: 5 easy on Monday after an absolutely terrible 8 on the previous Saturday where my foot started spasming and I had to walk for awhile. Walked 5 Tuesday to really try to baby that foot, then 5 progression on Wednesday and a great 4 outside on Thursday with splits of 9:29, 9:18, 8:36, and 8:15. Rest Friday and then 10 Saturday at 9:28.

5 today at 9:37 on the TM--why does this feel so much harder than the 8:15 outside?!

3/2

5 miles this morning with Nathan biking & Matthew in the jogging stroller; 9:54/mile (mostly 10:06/mile at Nathan pace and then 9:19 last mile when he went in with Neil and I finished up).

Strength training afterwards--I love the apps I'm using! I did 25 pushups today which is HUGE for me!

3/1

SRD; half-hour of yoga and half-hour of walking (1.6 miles at incline).

2/28

Last one of the month--hopefully I'll have a solid month in March.

3 today--normally after a hard speed day like I did yesterday I would run this one easy, but...didn't have time. 9:40 after doing strength so my legs were already sore!

2/27

Have I seriously not posted since November??!!

I've been running consistently, if patchily here and there. Had to take off a couple of weeks due to absolutely unbearable plantar fasciitis pain...it's better, but definitely not healed. Then I got influenza a week after I started running again. It was so hard coming back from that--I ran 3 times the first week, 4 times the second, and hopefully back to 5 this week.

I've decided that instead of training for longer distances, I'm going to work on getting faster over shorter distances. High-intensity shorter runs will just work better for my life right now and I'm really feeling like I need to mix it up more--I'm tired of being injured and I want to work on more strength training and yoga. So that's what I've been doing more of lately.

I guess I'll just start logging my runs again from this week rather than trying to catch up--I'm trying to build up to run a half on March 31 (I'm signed up for the full but for the first time ever I'm not going to be able to do a race that I've signed up for). My body is just not anywhere near 100% right now!

5 on Monday at aerobic pace + strength
5 Tuesday (1 mile to warm up, then 4 miles hard)