Thanksgiving 2009

Today was my first race, The Whitin five mile. I completed the race in 52 minutes (not sure yet about the seconds). I ran the entire thing, well jogged and sometimes barely jogged, but I did it! I am proud of myself, since I am not stick to it type of girl. Now I am going to train for my 10K as well as hopefully pick up some speed. Next year, I would love to run the Thanksgiving race in under 50 minutes. I also want to be able to run a half marathon, too. I am really starting to like all this running.

I am going to go out tomorrow and run about three miles as fast as I can. It would be nice to be able to do under a ten minute mile, although not likely yet.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Today, I ran 2.83 in 30:15. I have to admit that today was not a good run. I felt tired and wanted to go home. After I passed a mile, I got easier, but I never felt as good as Friday's run.

Henry had his second half marathon today< the Chilly Half in Newton. He did exceptionally well. He ran his race in 1:41:05. He came in 80th out of 655 that finished. He came in 23rd in his age range. He did awesome, I am so proud of him!

Friday November 13, 2009

Today I did my big run. I ran 4.76 miles and my time was 56:21. I planned it so that my last mile would be this ass-kicking hill. I am proud to say that hill did not kick my ass. I was able to run up it, slowly, but conquered it I did.

I think I might be set for my five mile run. I am feeling more confident everyday.

Slick Pimp

Slick Pimp


I promise this is the last one, I swear. I love the coat, I actually have the same one in black. I look nowhere even as close to awesome as this guy does.

Pack Leader

Pack Leader


I have been laughing at this picture for around five minutes now. Maybe it might be due to a lack of sleep and coffee, but I love this. The owner of that bike is awesome.



But I digress....
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
I ran only 2 miles today. I really did not feel like going the three I was supposed to do today. I will see if I can do another 2 miles tomorrow. I really need to get my weekly mileage up, as well as my time. My time today was around 22 minutes for 2.08 miles.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Today was my long run. I did four miles, with a warm up of a half a mile. I feel pretty confident that I will be able to accomplish the five that I need to meet on Thanksgiving. Now that hard part will be increasing my speed. Yikes. I did my run today in around 50 minutes. Not to good. I really was hoping that I would be under that for the whole five miles on race day. Well, I suppose that my time will get a bit better since the race day course is mostly flat and that there will be the element of excitement that a race provides. Hopefully I will not be the last person to cross the finish line. Hopefully I will not have to walk any at all. I did not walk any today, well except for my warm-up.

All in all I am proud of my accomplishment. I registered yesterday day for a 10k on January 1st. I should be really a run race, it is the inaugural race and they are going to have a lot going on afterward. My favorite is the promise of food and "adult beverages", woohoo! I can't wait. What a great way to start the new year.

Thursday, November 5

I ran just a smidge over two miles. It was a nice easy run. I also got to try out my new shoes, which I really like. They should be nice and broken in for my big run on Thanksgiving.

My next run will be on either Saturday or Sunday and it will be four miles. I am excited to get that distance under my belt. I am purposely going to pick an easier course so that I do not get discouraged. My two mile run today is one of the hardest since it has two insane hills, but happily I was able to run up both of them. I might have been going at a snails pace, but I did it and was able to pick up speed a the top of them. I know that the mega hills are good for me, but they can be so hard.

So after my five mile race coming up, I need to start thinking about what I want to do next. Henry is running his marathon February 28. Besides that distance, there is also a 10k and a half marathon. I know that I will be fine with running the 10k, since that is equal to about 6 miles. The half scares me though. I might just save my first half for next fall. I know that I will be okay to run that then and the Applefest half was really scenic and they have some great goodies and a cool finisher medal.

Here is where the run is:
http://www.hyannismarathon.com/

Monday's Run

Monday I kept it light and only ran 3 miles. It felt good and I know that I could have pushed myself a bit harder and made it up to 4 miles. I feel relived that I have made it this far, since my race on Thanksgiving is five miles and I was worried a couple of weeks ago that I would not make it up to that point. Yay! I can't wait until tomorrows run. I plan on doing four miles, although I probably should take it easier since it is not supposed to be my big run tomorrow. I should be saving the big ones for the weekends.

Running along

In an effort to try, yet again to add more to this sorely neglected blog, I am attempting not to try to turn into a running log/blog.

So Saturday, I had my long run. Well I am both happy and sad to report that it was only 3.5 miles. I am quickly approaching my race on Thanksgiving and am nowhere near the 5 that I need to have under my belt for that race. Henry say that I still have time to make it, but I am doubtful. I seem to never have time enough to get out. Today I am going to ask mother-in-law to watch the kids so I can put in my three miles. Then I will have to run tomorrow and Thursday mornings, as well, since those are the only times that all the kids are in school.

Henry is doing really well in his goal of his marathon in February. I am really proud of him. I seriously doubt that I will ever accomplish that feat. My biggie will be the Applefest half marathon next September. Although we will see about that!

I am very glad that I have both his and Amanda's support in encouraging me to just keep running. I know that Amanda will be up and running soon after the birth of number three. I think she might even run another marathon next year or maybe we can run a half together. That would be so much fun. I never in all my years thought that I would like to run so much, but when I lace up my shoes and pop in my ear buds, I get so excited. It really sounds corny, but it is so exhilarating to see how far you can push yourself. I can't wait until I can get out today.