Fifteen.15. 10 + 5

Wow. Running 15 miles is hard. Who'd a thought? We started at 6:40am at Zuanich Park, ran to Chuckanut Crest (near the Teddy Bear Cove Parking Lot on Chuckanut Drive) and ran back. I had a lovely running partner; I think I talked her ear off. For some reason I just couldn't shut-up.

The run was good, I felt okay during it and immediatly after. However, now at 2:30 I am pretty sore! Mostly my feet, but also my butt and legs. I more worried about tomorrow though, the soreness tends to wait a day or two to really kick in!

The cuts on my feet didn't bleed, so all is well there.

When we got done we remarked that it was fantastic that we ran that far, but can't imagine tacking 11 more miles on. 2 months to go!

Lake Padden Hill Run

A weird thing happened to me on my run up to the Lake. I thought to myself, "I kinda enjoy this". Am I actually starting to like running? I mean really like it? Not just like the challenge and the fitness aspect, not to mention the weight loss and muscle gain.

Crazy again, I know, I'm turning into someone I don't even recognize.

A short run?

Who am I? I don't even recognize myself anymore.

Today I thought, oh cool, we only have to run 10 miles.

ONLY!!!

Ha! That's a lot, but I guess when you're going for 26.2, it does seem small.

My running group started meeting at 7am on Saturdays, which is nice. I was home by about 9:45am, compared to the usual 10:30 or 10:45.

Volunteering and being sick

Today was the first time I've ran since March 14th. Shocker!! What's happening to me? Well, I've been a little bit sick and really busy. I can say though, that I rode my bike to work 3/5 days last week, so that should count for something.

Wanna hear something crazy?

I knew you did.

I volunteered at a 50K race yesterday.
That's 31 miles!!
I can hardly believe I'm training for a 13.1 mile race, and these guys ran 31!!

AMAZING!! Perhaps someday in the far and distant future I will be one of them, perhaps.

10.5 hrs, 2 miles, 2 meetings and a cake

Whew! What a busy day. It all started with a very wet ride into work, it wasn't just raining, it was pouring. I got in around 8:40am, had a meeting from 9am-11:25am, went to the gym and ran 2 miles, worked some more, taught a bicycle commuter class from 5:30-7:30, was dumbfounded by the snow, who ordered that? Got home and Jeff and Izzie baked me a cake! What a sweet surprise after a super long day at work!!

9.5

Not miles, but I did kick it up a notch and run faster. I ran a 9.5 minute mile for about 1 or 1.5 miles. It's an improvement, not fast, I know that, but getting there.......

Ran 4 miles, staying on track with the training schedule.

Getin' Ready

I'm about to head over to the clubhouse with Izabelle to run on the treadmill. I'm supposed to run 4 miles today. I'm going to try and kick it up a notch and run a little bit faster, we'll see how that goes.

In the meantime I'm boiling some eggs to make deviled eggs. Someone mentioned hardboiled eggs at work today and deviled eggs sounded really good.

Oh, I found out that my B-12 is low, might explain why I'm always so tired. I'm going to take some vitamins and hopefully that'll help.