0 miles

Still sick, no running since Wednesday.


B: 2 pieces toast w/ c. cheese/jam, tea
L:lentils, rice
D:

Yesterday:
B: toast w/ cr.cheese and jam, tea
L: pizza
D: lentils and rice

0 miles

Didn't run again today...although I did go shopping and got a cool new running jacket and lots of warm gloves so I should be ready for tomorrow :-)

B: tea, granola, milk
L: spagetti
D: potatoes, tortilla

0 miles

Came home today after work instead of going to the store. Feeling like I'm getting sick and don't want it to get anyworse. Just had chicked noodle soup for dinner- should have eaten real dinner.

3.83 Miles

Ran during work today- I don't really like that because I feel like I have to hurry to get back which means I end up running fast. I meant to do 5 miles today, but somehow the route I took--which I thought would be longer--was even shorter than the campus 4 loop. Don't really get that. Felt pretty good today, legs kind of tired. It was cold outside!

B: granola, milk, half bannana
S: yogurt, tea, tea
L:tuna sandwich, two carrots
D: potatoes, 3 eggs, fake sausage, hot chocolate

3 Miles

I signed up for the Indy Mini in May today! So that means no marathon for me at the moment, but it's probably a smarter choice anyway... I was almost ready to sign up for the Flying Pig, but then found out everyone else would be training for the Mini so I decided I'll use the spring training to work on getting under 2 hours. I was so close before!!

So I really am going to start using this to track how much I run, if I go to the gym, and what I eat. I decided the separate posts didn't make any sense so I'll just try to do one a day.

Ran 3 miles at the SRSC today. I need to remember how boring that is when I'm considering it again. It was raining outside today and I didn't really have a choice, but boy was it boring! Tomorrow I'm going to try to run 5- hopefully in the snow :-) yay!

Food:
B: cheerios, tea, milk
L: pb&j, tea, tea
D: spagetti, salad
S: pb and banna toast, orange

Still not drinking enough.

3 miles

Ran super easy today with the group- a little less than 3 miles. My legs are sore from the gym yesterday.

After I ran I went and did a few weights, although I went easy on my legs. My right leg hurt doing the hip machine which worries me.

5 miles

Yesterday: Ran on the indoor track today because it was raining and cold outside. So to make it a little less boring I decided to run 400's because that's two laps right there.

Ran a mile warmpu
1- 1:55
2- 1:55 (messed up watch on first two- something around that time)
3- 1:49
4- 1:52
5- 1:55
6- 1:51

5 minute break

7- 1:50
8- 1:49
9- 1:48
10- 1:52
11- :52
12- 1:48

1 mile cooldown. So I was running around 8 minute pace which seemed like nearly sprinting to me. How did I ever keep that up for a 5k pace?? Today was more boring than anything else really. Not too hard although the last few were a little hard.

Food!

B: bagel with cream cheese and jam, tea
L: cabbage, turkey, rice, tea
S: hot chocolate, half bagel with pb&j
D: turkey soup, toast with pb&j

Food today

B: tea, granola, milk, half banana
L: creamed turkey and bagel
S: half banana, kashi bar
D: salad with turkey, sweet potato, end of mashed potatoes and casserole

Ice cream time!

I went to the gym today and weighed myself and I'm 98.6 lbs. So..I think that means I get to go on my ice cream diet because I still haven't reached my goal of being over 100. Actually, since none of my pants fit right after my half marathon (and they do now again) I think I may have lost weight since then. I don't know...I'm going to work on the higher calorie diet again.

I need to drink more water too.

Food!

Breakfast:
Tea
Granola, milk, banana (too much for when I ran!

Lunch:
Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, salad

Snack:
Apple

Dinner:
HUGE salad- little bit of turkey on it
Tomato soup with cheese

Snack:
milk with molasses

A new goal?

My first post on this blog! Yesterday was Thanksgiving and I ran the very unofficial Turkey Trot at BBC. A very dissapointing race because it took me 28:20! That's like 5 minutes slower than my XC times. So that was kind of frustrating especially since I ran that pace for the whole half marathon a month ago. My training really went downhill fast!

Today I ran this morning and also had a pretty bad run. I ran a 5 mile loop around campus reallllly sloooowly! 11:15 pace- yikes! Actually, I think I've been running my long runs too fast so maybe that was good. I ran about the first 4.5 miles with side cramps and only finally started feeling okay at the very end. I think I ate too much breakfast and tried to run not long after. I also was not happy with my clothes choice and was too hot. But tomorrow hopefully will be better!

If I really am going to run a marathon- I haven't signed up yet :-) - I'm going to have have higher weekly mileage. I guess I still have a little time to decide since I will probably run it in May. 6 months out still! Right now my focus in building back up mileage wise and get faster to break back into the 25 minute bracket for 5K's. That's still slow but I don't need another 28 minute one for sure!

So guess that's it for now. I went to the gym today and found some exercises that I think will make me stronger and a really cool stretching machine! I want to do a better job on core strength and stretching this time around. We'll see if I can keep it up!