confirmation

I will confirm with Kirk's post that I rocked the race on Thanksgiving. I think my average pace was 7:08, much faster than I've run before.

I had a 9 mile run on Sunday. It felt pretty good, but it was c-c-c-cold and treacherous as it had snowed the day before. I had very little traction, which for a couple of miles is no big deal, but got pretty challenging for nine.

Today it's dumping snow and I have 4.5 miles to do. This could be interesting.

Holiday Running

First I want to say how GREAT it was having the Himle trio in KC over Thanksgiving! TRKJ had a fabulous time! It was even great running the Thanksgiving 5k even tho I pulled a boner the night before spraining my ankle. Not sure if I have some sort of subliminal thing with running with Mike because this makes 2 out of 3 races we've ran together where I've been hurt......and I've only been hurt 2 times in my running career....go figure...I'm doing some self reflecting to determine the cause. Might need more of the "secret smoke sauce" to help me out! Mike you up for "reflection" over X-mas? ha
My running has come to a rip roaring hault since the ankle sprain and I'm bummed! Luckily the black and blue is being replaced by normal skin color so I'm hopeful I can be out maybe next week???? I'll keep you posted!
Until next time.....TRKJ out!

I'm finally here!

OK so I have to apologize for my hiatis the past 6 weeks! I don't have any excuses and wouldn't tell you if I did because this is an important blog and is what's going to keep my running during the next 6 months!
My last run was Monday night (11/16) with my partner, Anna. We went 5 miles and finished in 52 minutes. Pretty sad but she just had a baby in May and is making her way back slowly. I'm running tonight by myself and will hopefully post a good time! I will let you know tomorrow....

ugh.

7 miles is, well, 7 miles. And I look at our training schedule for the rest of this ride and am feeling a little discouraged. The first half of the training schedule is always hard because you have to get into the groove, the second half of the training schedule is always hard because IT'S HARD! I'm reminded why most people don't run long races and wondering why I do.

moving out of this state

I did not have a good run today. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to run my 3 miles at 2:30 this afternoon. The temperature was around 88 degrees with the sun blazing making it feel like 96 degrees. Seriously, I'm so over summer.

seven mile fun

Sunday Sunday Sunday!

Seven miles in 1:04. Ouch, not really fast, but it felt good and the hills didn't kill me.

Great weather made it better and coming home to quiche and apple pancakes made it just darn fun.

Oh Patrick Swayze