Motivation gets you started, habit keeps u going

I hadn't planned on going this far. (only 4 or 5) but I did the math wrong as to where to turn around. Oh well. It is a new month and a new week. I looked over my higher months in mileage. I was doing really well at the beginning of the year and I was student teaching. this whole time I was blaming working in the day. So It is 5 am runs for me. I finally found my gloves to.

53 degrees today!

Goal for this week --3 more 3 milers. A bonus will be one more or adding in strength training to my non running days. I have a training plan in effect to build my miles slowly and to start out low so that I don't have ITB issues like I did earlier this year.

5:20 am I'm already doing better than last week! LOL

So my Garmin wouldn't wake up this morning and my yellow dog would not get up either.

But I did! I'm also back to less carbs. I fell off the low carb for a bit.

I had a hard time falling asleep last night. I think it was the 20 minute nap after work that sabotaged me.

5:20 am 43 degrees. Nice star filled sky. Easy progression run.

9:30 am run. It is now 35 degrees. I think it stay pretty much  that warm throughout the run.

Just east of me they go snow (like two miles) and a little further they got a lot of snow. Nice little blanket!

my pacing was all over the pace. It is funny to look at my splits b/c it is up down up down and finally up. LOL

I hit my goal for the week of doing at least 4 runs three of which had to be atleast 3. I messed up when looking at my training plan. I was suppose to run 5 days. But I think mileage wise I am okay.

Next week 5 days of running --4 of which are atleast 3 miles.

8am run. 35 degrees. Feels like 29.

10 minute pace

I took the yellow dog with me. I think we both had fun. I got home cleaned my house with the help of hubby  and now i'm gonna make french toast. Hpefully I can make it out to Joanns I have a 20 % coupon!

5:10am run 45 degrees AP 11mpm

5:20am 50 degrees? AP 11:17--slooooow

I got a late start. I took a benadryl last night b/c I could not stop sleeping and that makes it hard to wake up.

I Have been in a crap mood since Saturday and I"m really trying to get out of it. Atleast today I see the light at the end of the tunnel.

5:15  54 degrees AP 10:40

There were some definite warm pockets. It was alittle creepy!

I really can't wait to having some higher mileage. These three mile runs are super boring. I can't do speed workouts on all of them in order to keep them interesting!

I contacted the local running club and she finally emailed me back. I guess on Sundays they do long runs. This weekend they are running on Saturday. I'm thinking about running 6 with them (they run 11)

Again I can't wait to add mileage. Just trying to add slowly so I can avoid ITB pain again.

7am run 50 degrees? AP 10:58

I met up with people to run with. We did a almost 6 mile run and then they meet  up with beginners to run another 5. When I got home I finished the rest of the 6 miles and then some (it really bothered me that wedidn't do a whole six and we were only .15 short)

It was a little awkward at first but I think it was fun. Sherry has had the stomach flu all week so she walked a lot and didn't want us to walk. The last mile Bill and I ran on our own. So our pacing is a little screwy but I like the slow easy pace. I think it will keep me from doing my long runs too fst in the future.

They are also telling me I should atleast run Chicago onces in my life. WE shall see. They also said I, ME, am a strong runner!? OMG...never been called that in my life. Except by my friends but they don't run, so what do they know?

So I told them I would meet up with them again next week. Usually they run on Sundays. Even the beginners seemed pretty cool.

I was super nervous that they were gonna be speed freaks> I mean she told me my range for pace was perfect for them but I have been told that before and then the group runs way to fast in the beginning for me. Totally happy that they are at my pace for long run!

One thing I did find weird--i know they were running 11 miles today but Sherry was sucking down her 2nd Gu by the time we got done with the 6...that seemed weird since I didn't even carry water with me. Maybe it was b/c she was sick and she was getting her energy/calories thatway?

Splits

1: 10:48
2:10:44
3: 11:04
4: 11:44-Sherry wanted to walk
5:  11:28
6: 10:05-just me and Bill
.53: 10:39-mosting with the dogs after I got home

I went to bed at 8:30 last night. Yes I was tired.

5am run 11:00AP Progression run 34 degrees feels like 29

Sky full of stars was very nice.

5:15 am run 32 degrees 10:38 AP

the sick finally got me.

7ish am run. I wore too many clothes. I'm still sick. I was spitting up crap all through the run. I took my yellow dog with just in case I just wanted to walk. Surprisingly that never happened.

I was really tired of NOT running. But now I"m zonked. I am upping my intake of D3's (thanks sno--I realized I ran out of them a few weeks ago and never stocked up) guess now I know why my defense was down!

The plan is to read and do the rest of my laundry for the day.

Yesterday we did Thanksgiving with my family. This week we will go to Greg's Family's (well part of his family--his family is HUGE)

Happy Thanksgiving week all! And Hooray for 3 day work weeks!

yoga... got meds. expect to be back tomorrow

.5 with the dogs.

30 something feels like 18 degrees. Brrr Progressive run

But I ended up shedding gloves b/c i was hot. Go figure.

I did some planks and stretching when I got home along with rolling on both legs. Which kinda hurt a little. (the rolling did)

Did I mention that we booked our Maui trip? Friends of miine are getting married in June and she was talking about booking her honeymoon. She will be there just before we get there so she is gonna tell me all the cool things to do (they are staying at the same hotel and everything!) We compared prices and between that and looking on expedia and feel really good about the price we got from my travel agent friend. Plus I have a direct flight back. It isn't till July but I'm still super excited!

So if you have been to Maui--tell me what I must do and what I can skip. We are staying in Lahaina. I know we will take a day trip to Pearl Harbor.

Nice cold run with step SIL

11:00am run felt like 21 degrees. Again I dressed to warmly so I shedded layers as I went.

It was aprogressive run. is that okay to do? Or should I focus on keeping each mile at the same pace?

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.