Monday, April 19, 2010

Sunday April 18th, 2010

RACE DAY!!

Okay so yesterday we ran the half marathon. We did it! We finished the entire race and I am so proud of myself and my wonderful running buddy. It felt so good to accomplish something so challenging. I feel like if I can do that can do anything!! Such a great feeling.

It was harder than I expected. By the last mile we were so sore that every part of my body hurt. I think if we had finished our training program it would have been a littler prettier but we still worked it out. My anke is pretty sore and I generally just feel like sitting on my butt for five days but otherwise I'm doing great! No more running for awhile! I need a break!

I could not be happier!

Monday, March 15, 2010

Week 9: Day 1

Run: 2.5 miles
Time: 25 min

Best: Just a little treadmill jog before my bootcamp class.
Worst: Didn't really have time to go any farther but I could have easily

Lesson Learned: I like my running shoes! I was running in my aerobics shoes and it was just not the same!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Week 8: Day2

Run: 8 miles (did you catch that?!?)
Time: who gives a crap- I ran 8 miles!! But it was around 1hr and 25 min with one bathroom break

Best: Um- yeah you guessed it finishing the run strong.

Worst: Oh man that was work but I had fun so who cares.

Lesson Learned: I offically got back together with running. I guess sometimes you have to give it a second chance.

Week 8: Day 1

Run: 3.5 miles
Time: 30 min (I'm guessing cause I forget to time it)

Best: I felt better about running again because as you know if you've been following this blog running and I went through a rough period for a week or so.

Worst: I fought for this one because I wanted to do it.

Lesson Learned: Never give up on something even if it gets hard.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Week 7: Day 4

Run: 4 mile walk with little mini-runs throughout
Time: 40 min

Best: It was a beautiful day out and there were birds chirping with the sun shining.

Worst: I keep feeling like I can't breathe. I start running and then get chest tightness and shortness of breath.

Lesson Learned: I'm not sure what I learned yet other than that I'm frustrated with this right now. I don't want to have to give up but it's like my body doesn't want to do this anymore. Annoying!

Week 7: Day 3

Run: Well it was supposed to be 7 miles but we only ended up running 3.5 of that
Time: 1 hr 20 min

Best: Getting back to the car and being able to sit down
Worst: It was so windy- like running into a wall. We could neither one breathe because of the wind. We were just forced to stop.

Lesson Learned: I feel like I'm breaking up with running. Really, lately it's been like no matter how far I try to go I can't do it. I don't understand why this is happening since we've been training and preparing to get to this point. I had even started to enjoy running and then all the sudden it's like I've just regessed back to couch to 5k style.

Week 7: Day 2

Run: 2 mile
Time: 21 minutes

Best: This was a treadmill run and there wasn't much to it...
Worst:

Lesson Learned: This was not the best week for me and running and since I didn't writ this right after the run it's hard to have perspective about how it went.