Blehh

Last week was ANOTHER bad running week. Friday was a 7.5 miler, and it about killed me. It really got to me emotionally, but I'm just trying to get over it.

Saturday I was all day, which was awesome of course, but left me pretty incredibly sore. I took sat-tues off from running, so when I went to run yesterday I was not too excited.

But... It turned out to be a great run! I did it around the track with Meghan and we covered something like 4 miles though neither of us was keeping count. The first two were hard, but definetly for mental/ emotional reasons. The second two were great!

We're going to be at the gym again tonight which will be good, Friday I'll take the day off, and sat will be my first ever eight miler!! Furthest I've ever run!! Though cometo think of it, so was the 7.5-er last week!

We're getting close to race day folks!

Blog Fail

I knew it had been a few days since my last post... didn't realize it had been over a week!

So, here's the quick and dirty update:

Last week was my rest week, so i did 2 milers on tuesday, wednesday, thursday and saturday and an outdoor five miler on sunday (in 60 degree sunshine!!)

This week I've been REALLY struggling to find motivation to run.. and I never seem to enjoy them.

Monday I skipped my run
Tuesday I postponed my run until after dinner.. and only managed to squeak out 1.5 30 minutes after pigging out on tacos >:(
Today (Wednesday) I eaked out 3 outdoor miles (once again in 60 degree sunshine!!)


So for the upcoming week: Ths will be 1.5; Fri will be 7.5; Sat will be snowboarding (!!!!!) and sun will be 3. Grand total should be 18 miles.

Next meal is in 14 minutes.. yes i'm counting down.. i'm starrvviinngg!

Oh, and school you ask? Meh. So far my exams have been in the low 90s.. I guess i'll have a chance to get A's again after all? Perhaps... perhaps..

...perhaps I demand too much of myself!

now, out to enjoy me some sunshine :)

study break!

Basically all I've done all day is study for my stupid fund. exam.. and my brain has officially turned to mush.

So, recap of the past few days. Thursday I had a three mile run, and I think it went pretty well, though I can't really remember the specificis. I know I did two on the treadmill and one around the track. It was in the morning before lab. OH - and I did ab and arm weight lifting excersizes.. today is the first day that my stomach isn't killing me. I am so weak!

Friday I was tempted to go to the gym and do some cross training, but i knew deep down that I needed a day off, so I rested instead. Glad I did!

Yesterday I had my long run (of course). I did seven miles at the gym, 2.5 tread, 2 track, 2.5 tread. It was soooo much fun! I love my long runs best of all. I feel so strong at the end. I managed to sprint out the last .5 miles, which means I have so much left in the tank :) I had minimal leg pain, which makes it even better. And no GI issues at all. One thing I did that really helped was that I diluted my gatorade by 50%. That was it wasn't so irritating to my stomach. It made it much easier to drink! Following the run I did full body stretches - something that I've really improved on lately.

Today I did two miles outside, down and around food lion and back. It was a beautiful run! First warm, sunny day in a while. I was able to run in a hoodie and shorts and was pretty warm! I had a little bit of abd. issues but that was because I had a fairly large lunch 1.5 hrs before hand.

This week will be my rest week, so I'll do 4 2milers and a 5 mile long run. The week after that will begin my speed training!

So my total mileage for this week was 18 (!) miles.. more than I've run in forever. I know. That's not much at all. But gimme a break :)

My total mileage for the month of january was appx 57 miles.. pretty sweet! I'll definitely need new shoes by this summer!

Okay okay. I know. Back to the books.

A new month

Man, I haven't been great about posting lately. I'm assuming I wrote about my 6.5 run on Friday.
So I'll start off on Saturday. It was supposed to be my day off, but we were in dupont circle, and I just couldn't not run through the city. So I got up early and did somewhere around three miles, though I probably rounded up since I had to wait at at stoplights. It was so much fun though! I want to move there (to DC, not Dupont circle) and run by the white house and capital everyday. Seriously. Running would be so much more fun with all those options!

I didn't run sunday, though, so it evened out I guess. I also took Monday off.

Yesterday was a three miler, which didn't happen until after dinner. I had chicken and rice, and I totally knew while u was eating that it was gonna cause problems. And it did. I really almost quit after a half mile. But I took short walking breaks every half mile for the first two, and then ran the third one straight out