December 2008

Goals for 2009

December 30, 2008

I don’t have my 2008 goals on the blog, as I didn’t start blogging until May, but I wrote some on my livejournal account. I wanted to run a half marathon and a marathon. I don’t think I realized at the time what I was getting in to, but I did accomplish both. So for [...]

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Feeling sluggish and non-committal

December 29, 2008

I’ve only run 3 miles in the last four days and I’m starting to feel, well, just kind of blah. I’ve been eating too much most days and even when I eat a reasonable amount, too much of it is cookies and other not so healthy stuff. And water? What’s that? All I’ve been drinking [...]

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Merry Christmas from small-town Wisconsin

December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas to all! It’s a beautiful day here in Wisconsin. Cold, but sunny. It’s so nice to look outside and see the sun shining off of all the snow, instead of seeing more snow come down. And now, for your amusement: How you know you are in a small town in the midwest for [...]

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1000 miles in the bag!

December 23, 2008

Woot! I did it and I still have a week of running left in 2008! Today I did 8.4 miles on the hamster wheel. Thank goodness for the Today show. Everything on there is perfect for someone who isn’t paying close attention. I averaged a 9:15 mile, which is a great pace for me for [...]

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Single digits

December 22, 2008

It’s 3 degrees outside and that’s a huge warm up from yesterday’s -8 with -30 windchill. Needless to say, I’ve been doing all my running on a treadmill. I only have 8.4 miles to go to my 1000 mile goal! If the weather was decent, I’d knock it out in one run, but I’m not [...]

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I should have bought a lottery ticket

December 20, 2008

Yesterday was apparently my lucky day. Despite Milwaukee airport being closed for most of the day due to 12 inches of snow, we got to WI last night. We flew out on the ONLY direct flight from DC to MKE that made it out yesterday. Woot! It was 1 am EST by the time we [...]

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Puke threshold

December 19, 2008

Beer Geek had a holiday event this evening, so I only had about 45 minutes to run between when he came home and when he was planning to leave. I decided to run a three mile loop and then run in the neighborhood until the 45 minutes was up. As I’m desperate to get this [...]

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To pack or not to pack?

December 18, 2008

I’m trying to decide whether or not to take my “cold” weather running clothes. I say “cold” because I don’t run if it’s much under freezing. I have running tights, but they aren’t super warm and I have some long sleeve technical tees and some Old Navy fleeces (hey, they’re cheap and they work around [...]

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50 by 50

December 16, 2008

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my goal of racing in 5o states. The combination of a few hours awake with Shoo the other night and two fairly long runs recently has given me plenty of time to think. I’ve followed that up with a fair amount of research late at night (when [...]

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Motivation comes from the oddest sources

December 14, 2008

I have been really struggling with running since the marathon. Not so much with the actual running, but with WANTING to run. So many days I just don’t. I have to force myself to get out there and do it. In attempt to make myself want to run, I’ve been participating in a lot of [...]

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