No run today. I’m still coughing a lot. Instead, I spent my day going to church, attending an appreciation luncheon for volunteering with a mom’s group, and playing with Shoo at THREE! different playgrounds. All in all, a fun day and a good way to use the beautiful spring weather. When I decided to ask…
7 on the 7th times 3
I originally planned for last Sundays 12K to be my “7 on the 7th” and was quite pleased with my 1:03:15 time. Then I ran 12 miles on Tuesday and figured I should count that 7 since it was closer to the 7th, but my time was closer to 1:08. But, oh my goodness, it…
Grumble Grumble
My favorite race of the year is a local 10K. I can walk to it, it’s a reasonable distance, it’s a challenging course, and it’s easy for Beer Geek and the boys to see me at the finish line. Win, win all around. I just got an email today that advertised this year’s race. Same…
House of sick
It all started with Jones last week. Now he’s feeling great and full of energy. Shoo is snotty, but generally himself. Beer Geek is totally down for the count and I’m losing the battle. It’s a drippy, sneezy kind of cold, so my poor nose is rubbed raw. I’ve been going to bed super early…
12K race report
Short story: 12K in 1:08:20ish (I’m not exactly sure of my time as I forgot to hit stop on the Garmin, the official results are not up, and it was not chip-timed). Anyways, I got up this morning and had my usual pre-long run breakfast of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and some coffee….
January in Review
When I make “New Year’s Resolutions”, I usually not only break them by the end of January, but often completely forget what they were. This year I didn’t make any resolutions, but I did set goals. At the end of every month, I’m going to revisit them and see how I’m doing and tweak the…
Picking a pace
As I mentioned earlier, I am running a 12K race this weekend. Several of you commented on what a weird length that is. I didn’t realize how weird it will be for me until I started looking at my running log to figure out my goal pace. 12K is just under 7.5 miles. The only…
Just once
Today’s topic for “Take it and Run Thursday” over at the Runner’s Lounge is the Marathon. I’ve only run one marathon and the plan was to do it “just once”. That was my mantra the whole time I was training for the marathon. Every time I needed to squeeze in a run instead of doing…
Snow Day
Or more accurately, ice day. Jones was off of school today because our county’s schools were closed, as were most others in the region. We slept in late and had a lazy day, which would have been awesome if the boys hadn’t been fighting all day. It wasn’t that bad out (other than needing to…
Nine snowy miles
This is what it looked like in my ‘hood this morning. When we woke up, it was snowing and the boys were quite excited to walk to school in it. It continued to snow quite heavily on the walk to and from school, so I was quite surprised we even had school. After dropping Jones…
Cross Training
I suck at cross training. I love to run, but I’m not a big fan of much else. I don’t own a bike (although we may change that in the spring), I don’t belong to a gym, and I don’t currently have a good spot in my house to do a video. So, I’ve been…
Great run! and a retraction
We had an awesome time yesterday at the Monster Jam! The boys got to meet some of the drivers and then we had a blast watching the show. I ended my low carb eating (as planned) by having a couple of beers. Then for dinner we ordered Thai food and had more beer. Today, my…