Motivation gets you started, habit keeps u going

5a.m.-11 degrees (no wind chill!)

I'm late in putting this in. Crazy day. I did not bring the garmin with me today so I have no splits. This was a 1/2 smiley face run. My leg wasn't unbearable but it wasn't perfect either.

Two creepy things happened. Usually there are no walkers on the road. and I keep hearing about attacks...so when I saw someone walking towards me I crossed the street and ran on the other sid for a bit. Then as I was going up a hill a car slowed down and stopped. Again pitch black! It was my uncle. He wanted to make sure I was okay. I"m like um please don't stop all creeplily like that! I started walking and I guess he wanted to make sure I was okay. Where was he on Saturday for my 8 miler??? LOL

6:20 pm 11 minutes on the elliptical. Don't laugh...The SO tore the house up and the living room is taped up...He was sanding in prepartion of paint. The dogs were put in the basement with me and the one kept crying. I couldn't take it. So I finished up with the matrix and some ab stuff.

The alarm went off this morning at 5am. and I reset it for 6am, I was just too worn from yesterday and just decided to take advantage of being on a 4 days a week for running.

5:00am run 11 degrees with the windchill

I got new shoes. I had to try them out. I bought two of the riders. So HOpefully I won't have to buy new shoes for the next 6-12 months. I still have some gas left on the precisions I think and the ST3. So these may go back in the box till I really need them. We'll see. I"m not really good about deciding if I like a shoe. these didn't hurt my feet so I guess I will keep them.

Still having some IT band yuckness. I walked some and stretched.

5:00am run 20 degrees....no windchill

These runs seem hardly worth the effort of getting all bundled up. I keep repeating in my head--even low miles does a body/mind good. Stretching before the run helped. I didn't get any twinges till about 2.3 mark...and then I stopped and stretched. I felt it again about about mile 3...

Day off...it is snowing! Like crazy! This should be an interesting long run tomorrrow...

 I'm listening to a book in CD called 50 marathons in 50 days. It may just have 50/50 on the cover. Not sure. Any who it is pretty interesting. Also I'm reading Your Performing Edge. I like all the talk about positive self talk. A lot of it can be applied to real life in general. Also it is a good book if you have an injury and you are acting all Debbie Downer on yourself.

Also, SO finished the livingroom. It was 3 year project in the making. He finally finished the painting and it looks INCREDIBLE!

Happy super bowl weekend all!

8:00am run. I think it was 10 with the windchill. This run would have been awesome if not for the peanut butter prerun (what was I thinking?) and the wind while running north and east.

Ignoring those two things this was a good run. There were  a lot of hills! I ran a new route. Usually I take this route home when I coming from the University and I have always wanted to run it. Not sure why it has taken me so long. I looked at garmin connect and it said elevation gain was 574ft. I'm not sure what that means? I just wanted to see how hilly it was??

Okay and my IT band hurt. Even the butt part of the band was nagging me a little. No problem. I stopped and stretched. And pretty much had a schedule of walking every mile for .05 miles. Sometimes I walked more frequently due to the hills. For some reason my breathing was off. No biggie.

So while running east for a stretch it was terrible wind! Did I mention we got 2-4 inches of snow last nigh ttoo? So I"m going through all the wind and snow. I swear I was running in place when I hear a guy yell out "Dedication!" I"m like yeah!!!! So for the next quarter mile i'm singing my little Navy Motivation, Dedication song in my head. It irked me a bit to be short on the ten miler...but come on those hills and wind were tough! Here are my splits...

1: 10:49
2: 10:57
3: 11:24
4: 12:39
5: 11:41
6: 12:01
7: 11:52
8: 11:57
9: 11:51
.88: 11:26

My easy pace is an 11 minute mile. Not too shabby.

I came home and ate my fav yum treat..Eggs with salsa, peanut buttter on toast with fresh strawberries and some carrots. YUM!

Oh and I started reading Marathon Woman --I"m only about 15 in but it is pretty good so far!