Motivation gets you started, habit keeps u going

Now that I'm home at 10 the weather is 36 feels like 28. I think it was feels like 21 when I first started.

This run seemed to have taken FOREVER!!! My AP wasn't too bad nut far off from yesterdays 6 miler. So weird!

so I wanted to hit 1000 miles this year...doesn't look like that will happen since i'm 90 away bummer

Goals for the week-2-3 milers, a four miler, and a seven--total 22 miles for the  week.

My real SIL wants to run a marathon in March in Little Rock. She wanted to run with me on Friday. So I waited for her to wake up. Long story short I suppose she changed her mind about running withme. WE even printed her up a Higdon 16 week training plan. I just texted her and asked if she was going to run today and she said Tuesday she would on her day off. OMG. My step SIL said she ran a full marathon on 3 days a week of training. OMG! I would die! I mean she wasa 5 hour plus marathon (which I would NOT want to do to myself)

Any who. I'm thinking about running Chicago this year. There is a charity that apparently will drive you up there in a bus (for some money of course) but that is my whole thing aboutdoing chicago races--it is a PITA to get there and park etc. Also it is expensive. I need to wrap my head around 120 dollars for one race. There is a marathon around here in April but I know the crowds will be minimal and I think if I'm going to run 26 I need all the cheering I can get. 13 miles is easy to get through if you are having a bad running day. 26 is another story.

5:20 am run felt like 28 degrees. I can't find my headlamp. I know where it was last week. but since then we have had so many people through our house who knows where it was moved to. So I had to stay on side streets. I also forgot to turn on my garmin. Oh well.

10 push-ups, some light stretching and planks.

yoga for 15 minutes and rolling out my back and legs.

I kept waking up in the middle of the night. So I don't know that I really got 8.5 hours of sleep. I know I was dead tired when I went to bed so who knows what happened.

5:10 am run 25 degrees feels like 10. 20-25 mph wind gusts. Progression run.

AP 10:35

Good run. My butt was cold but other than that all good. We got a little bit of snow.

Last night on my way home from work I saw two runners. I felt for them b/c there were ice pelets with wind. Not fun!

so I thought maybe I was getting too much sleep and that is what I kept waking up in the middle of the night. Not so. Last night I went to bed at 10 and It was VERY hard to wake up this morning and I still woke up in the middle of the night.

I went on the elliptical. Very boring-but I finally got the attachment to plug in my IPOD to the ellip so I got to take my spanish lesson while on it.

5:20 am felt like 20, actively snowing. About 2-4 inches on the ground. I had to go to the dentist today by 8. I dind't think I wouldn't be walking back in the door at around 7! OMG 11:30 AP. It was a fun run. But I just kept getting distracted. So I'm not complaining about my pace.

I had to stop to let plows through--they are BIG and scary!! Within the first mile I saw 5 deer in the field just staring at me and I at them. Very pretty. Then about 7 miles in there were deer trying to cross the street. It was funny. I wonder who they vote to look both ways and then give the go ahead. They all sprinted away in the field.

Then I thought I got lost. I tend to run in this one ritzy community during the day but I combined two of my short runs (which was only suppose to be between 7 and 7.5 miles). I had started going the right way and then doubted myelf and walked the other way (too much snow to see the signs). Lucky for me there was a lady walking her dog that told me I was indeed going in the right direction the first time. I got back on track. Went right instead of left outside of the complex thinking that would be less mileage and I maybe right. If I went left maybe I would have ran 8.5 miles.

Annoying thing--snow kept getting stuck in the spot of my heal. Do you know what I"m talking about? I usually get a rock stuck there once in a while. But I had to keep stomping the snow out! Very annoying!

Very peaceful run. Drove to my dental appointment, did a 360 in my truck (nothing is hurt) and then got a root canal.

I think I'm gonna go quilt.

Oh readers! I read the book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  Awesome book ifyou like murder/mysteries and family feuds!