First, have you entered my Scott James Sports Jewelry giveaway yet? If you haven’t, you really really really should. Just sayin’. Ends tonight. I’m participating in some challenges to start getting into a healthy holiday mood. Why don’t you join me? Instagram: I’m doing two Instagram challenges. (Do you follow me on instagram? You should!…
Category: HBBC
Do not try this at home
Apparently I’ve perfected the recipe for exhaustion. Ingredients: 1 part highest mileage week ever with 40 miles! (ok, I hit this number one time before during marathon training) 1 part paleo eating (I’m pretty sure my body is in shock from the lack of sugar) 1 part PMS Mix all together and what do you…
HBBC Week 6 in review
This was a low mileage week and I was ok with that. I didn’t build any recovery or fallback weeks into my plan, knowing that I’d take one when my body or life demanded. Coincidentally, my body demanded just before Christmas, so I finished out that week and took a recovery week. I only ran…
HBBC Recap Week 5 + my life in numbers
Life threw me some challenges this week and I’m proud to say I rose to the occasion. My long run on Monday just sucked. I was mentally not into it and physically tired. Somehow, I managed to dig deep and get the entire planned run done. 10.6 miles is a really long way if you…
Advice Needed: Recovery Week
My body is asking for a break. I’m hitting my miles and I’m hitting my paces, but between the running and the “cross training” (2+ hours of shoveling is the best.cross.training.EVER), I’m feeling tired and tweaky. Conveniently, next week is Christmas, so I’ll be busier than normal. Perfect time to cut back on the running. …
HBBC Recap Week 4
Last week was an interesting week on the running front. I ran 10.5 of the hilliest miles in the area. Part way through, I found I needed the bathroom. Unfortunately, I’d chosen to run in an area lacking in public bathrooms. After miles of discomfort, I hit the bathroom at the public library and was…
Since Miss Zippy asked…
This week Miss Zippy, one of my favorite running bloggers, asked us to tell her about our year. I couldn’t resist answering and I hope to read lots more responses over the next few days! Best Race Experience Harvest Days 8k in Battleground, Washington. This race was one of the few races in a long…
Quirky Monday
It’s another cloudy, misty day here again today. It’s perfect running weather temperature-wise, but the grey just makes me want to go back to bed. I’m feeling horribly unmotivated to do anything, including write any of the backlog of reviews that I need to write. I promise I’ll be more productive tomorrow. Instead, today you…
HBBC Recap Week 3
So far, so good. I think I managed to hit my “freggie” goal every.single.day. I’ve had to do a midweek grocery shop every week, though, to get extras as I am apparently unable to believe just how “7 fruits/veggies a day” translates to actual amounts of food LOL. On the training front, I had a…
Choices
We all make choices. Some would say that pretty much everything you do is a choice. You choose to get up when the alarm goes off or you choose to hit the snooze. You choose to eat that donut… or not. You choose to make fitness a priority or to find other ways to spend…
HBBC Recap Week 2
This week went pretty well for me. I ramped up the veggies, so most days I way surpassed the 7 per day. Assuming I go run in a bit (which I fully expect to do), I will have hit every single run in my training plan, for a total of 31 miles this week. In…
HBBC Week One Recap
So far, I’m doing really well with HBBC this year. It doesn’t hurt that I’m in “ramp up the miles” mode for my 5 halves in 5 days training. This week so far, I’ve run 23.9 miles, walked 5 miles, done a one hour yoga class, done a tad bit of weight work, and eaten…