3 years later...

I remember starting a blog 3 years ago, but I couldn't remember what website I used or what I had written.  Now, 3 years later I've been debating about starting another blog only to log into my g-mail account and find this one.  So...I figure why not add to it.

A little update about me I am now married, have an almost 8 month old son, a dog, 2 cats, and have officially "retired" from the workforce and I'm now a stay at home Mom.  I still continue to train and run 1/2 marathons.  I just completed my first one post baby 3 days ago.  The race went okay.  Not exactly what I was hoping for, but I finished :)

As for being a stay at home Mom, I don't consider myself to be "granola" but I do use cloth diapers and I have been making all of my own baby food.  I know some people may consider this to be granola, but those who really know me would just tell you I'm cheap!  I try to save money in every way possible and those 2 things are HUGE money savers in the baby world!  Anything that was going to help me to stay at home with the munchkin was worth doing in my mind.

I'm hoping I can get into the routine of blogging on the regular and be able to basically keep an online diary. Hopefully I don't bore you guys.

More later :)

Rough Week

Last week was a tough week for me.  I just wasn't feeling it and I was tired of having to run all.the.time!  I did 2 of my speed workouts on the treadmill and I was dying.  I kept stopping, trying to motivate myself, and I just couldn't find the motivation.  I got through all my running last week and it was first time since this training program I did all 5 days of running according to plan.

My schedule called for a 12 mile run on Saturday.  Typically, I meet my Dad on Saturday mornings and he will ride his bike along side of me.  This Saturday we met up and started on our run/ride.  About half a mile in I turned the road and BAM....Head on into the wind.  The first 3 miles of my run were right into the head wind.  Whew, it was not was I was hoping for.  I decided I'd rather have freezing weather than deal with the wind.  The run I mapped had 3 hills in it and I knew exactly where they were.  The first one was fine, but the second one killed the bottom of my foot.  I think I have a slight stress fracture in my foot, but I refuse to admit it or take care of it.  The hill felt like it pulled all the muscles in the bottom of my foot, but I ran on.  At mile 9 I was all excited we were getting close and almost finished when it happened again....turned the corner and there was that damn wind!  For the last 3 miles we were head on into the wind.  Then, I accidentally turned down the wrong path and ended up on the golf course.  Since I was so tired I didn't want to turn around, so we ran in middle of the golf course.  Oops!  Sorry guys.  I ended the run with a 10:30 mile which is WAY slower that I would have liked to run, but I'll blame the wind.

This week so far has been going much better!  I'm avoiding the treadmill and my 8 miles tempo run I actually ran faster than I needed to.  I was quite happy about it.

This weekend will be a 14 mile run.  The farthest I've ever run.  Woohoo!

The Beginning and a little about me

So, it's the first of the year and on a run the other day, I decided that I was going to start blogging about my running.  Pretty boring I'm sure, but oh well.  Here it is and a little back story about me.

I started running at the age of 7 and went until my first year of college.  I HATED running anything over 400 yards so the though of running 13 or 26 miles was crazy to me.  In 2008 I was watching a biggest loser challenge and they had to run a half marathon and I thought if they can lose all that weight and run 13.1 miles, why can't I?  So, I set off on a new goal for myself: run a 1/2 marathon.  I have now run 4 half marathons (each one getting slower for variable reasons) and I am in middle of training for my first full marathon on March 4th!

I have been training for the full for a month now and I logged 111 miles in the month of December.  This month alone I am set to run about 150 miles.  Whew!  I never thought I would be running this many miles EVER.  But, here I am dreading getting off work each day, because that means I will need to run.  No one ever told me training for a full marathon was going to be like having a part time job.  I feel like my life consists of working, running, eating, and sleeping.  But, I guess that is life.  I have 2 goals for this marathon.  The first one is to simply finish and the second is to finish in under 4 hours.  Who knows if that will happen.  But, here is my story and the journey of my running.