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back at ‘er

I keep a written training log and while adding up my total miles last night for the previous week I was very surprised to find that I had had my highest mileage week yet (18 miles)since I strarted training in Novemeber. I also passed the 100 miles logged point. It was a nice little boostContinue reading “back at ‘er”

The Great Outdoors

Finally back outside today after 3 weeks!!! It was far from a “perfect” or even “good” run but I’ll take it. My plan was to do 6 miles but ended up doing 5.3. I decided to change my route because of the snow- figuring going straight down Main St. would up my chances of havingContinue reading “The Great Outdoors”

poo

I think I’m falling into a little runners depression here- I’m just feeling so very upset about not being able to run. I think maybe part of the problem is that I’m not in bed, needing -round -the -clock -care sick, but rather up and around and generally going on about my normal life butContinue reading “poo”

The road to nowhere…

Trying to stay positive here but freaking out on the inside as my training has been completely derailed, last week by Christmas festivities and this week by illness. I did 2 miles on the treadmill yesterday and it felt OK but I was at my limit. I’m feeling OK just weak-ish. I looked through myContinue reading “The road to nowhere…”

boo hoo

Got “the flu” although my version is, as always, very low grade. Basically I feel horrible but am somehow able to look after everyone still, including laundry, meals, driving kids around… it’s the Mama strain of the virus methinks.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

Just as I had predicted, this week has been a bit of a bust- there’s one more day in the training week and to date I have just 2 treadmill runs in, one cross training session (i hour of shoveling snow) and tomorrow it looks like another treadmill- and it is set to be aContinue reading “It’s the most wonderful time of the year…”

Thank you Santa!

…for the Garmin Forerunner! (www,garmin.com) Now if I could just figure the darn thing out! NJB- I may need your assistance…

decisions, decisions…

So after much deliberation I have decided that I will NOT run my long run in the -8 and snow weather today but rather run it on the (blech) treadmill instead. I have been humming and hawing, and on my way home from dropping the kids off at school I was checking out the sidewalksContinue reading “decisions, decisions…”

Courage

I finally got around to putting together my “before” page… complete with…gulp! photos- I’m getting to be gutsy in my old age…

5 miler… in the snow!

I have always been a bit of a drama queen… I’m an opera singer ‘fer crying out loud!! So there is something about running in the snow (yes it snowed one whole centimeter here on Friday!) that brought out the tough guy in me (cue Rocky theme song…cut to my chubby housewife self shuffling upContinue reading “5 miler… in the snow!”