SAND CASTLES

This morning the weather was like the day we went to the beach in Florida, but I didn't have time to be building sand castles. It had been a week since my last run and I was recovering from being sick the first part of the week. I knew I had to take advantage of the nice weather and try to get some miles in. Believe me it was hard to get motivated but I grabbed my



Garmin and headed out the door with a plan to run my usual route. My schedule said I was to do 4 easy miles.

I was doing good until mile 3 when there were more hills then I had planned on. I decided to walk the hills so as not to tire me so much. Mile 4 seemed better and then near the end I walked until I reached home. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I ran/walked 4.75 for the day.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Where ever you are and however you're celebrating I wish you the best in 2009.

We just got home this week from celebrating Christmas in Florida with all the family(17). What a nice trip, the weather was perfect and it was great to have everyone together.

I managed a run with Katy, Jenny and Amy the day after Christmas . Katy and I did 4 miles and Jenny and Amy each ran their own distance. Afterwards we all had waffles for breakfast.

BETTER BE GOOD

I wanted to be good and get my long run in so I won't get a lump of coal in my stocking. I put my Smart Wool socks on since this was going to longer than what I usually do. My schedule had 7 miles for today( actually tomorrow) and I tried to figure out what would come close without going out of the neighborhood. Missed by .40, I did 6.60.

Big cheers to Jenny and family , they all placed in their 5K race today. What a bunch of runners they have turned out to be.

DASHING ALL THE WAY

What a beautiful day.The sun was out for the first time in 3 days, the fog had lifted and the temperature was a nice 61. I had a tempo run on my schedule for today. What the hell, I had never done one of these but there is always a first for everything.

I did my mile warm up and then checked my Garmin and started out. I was to do 3 miles @ 13:15 pace. Here's how I did.
12:48
13:38
13:42

The times for mile 2 and 3 are slower but that part also had the most hills including the killer hill.

This afternoon I am going to do dashes, dashing in one store then on to the next until I get my shopping finished.

GOOD THING

It's a good thing I have worked out the last three days because I had chocolate iced Krispy Kreme doughnuts sitting on my counter this morning. Now there are several people in my family that love doughnuts(you know who you are) and we can't pass a good doughnut up. Not only could I not pass up a doughnut I had two. And that's not a good thing.
I did get my 2 mile run done.

GOOD LUCK

To Kathryn, Jodi and Jenny good luck on your half today .
To Maggie who is running her first marathon, good luck and rock the rock !

SCREWED UP !

I was suppose to do speed work with a distance of 5 miles including a warm up , 2x mailto:1600@12:30 w/800 jogs, and cool down.

I got up to the track at the middle school and this is what I did:
1 mile warm up
1 mile 12:01
800 walk
1 mile 12:02
800 walk
1 mile 12:01
1200 walk
Total miles 5:75
This was a totally new experience for me. I find it was not too difficult to do and not as boring as a treadmill. When I first got to the track there was a cross country team working out. I think that helped me with my run. I didn't want to look like a wuss in front of those kids.