I haven't written in almost a week so I felt the need to update before I go to bed...

I haven't run since my long run on Monday. I know that's absolutely terrible, but this week was HELL WEEK and I didn't have one spare moment to run. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were GO GO GO from sun-up to sun-down with school stuff. Friday I slept in and, ( Read more... )

I am so happy right now. After such a shitty few days, it feels really good to have things go my way today!

*I don't have to work tonight. Kelly and Didier, two of my managers, decided to use an on-call person tonight and give me the night off because they know I've been stressed and that I just ran 19 miles this morning. So I have the night off!

*I ( Read more... )

Time: 9:30am
Running Time: 3 hours, 21 minutes
Miles: 19

I did it. I've completed my final long run. I didn't make it quite as far as I would have liked to, but I'm still proud of myself for getting through it. The Hal Higdon training goes up to 20 miles, and my marathon training book that I've been reading goes up to 18 miles (two 18-milers), so I ( Read more... )

Time: 8am
Time ran/walked: 1 hr, 8 minutes
Miles: 6.4

Damn it. I couldn't do it.

Most people don't expect their bodies to do anything for them when they are sick. How could I have expected my body to take me 21 miles when a cold is having its way with me? I'm surprised I even made it as far as I did. I wanted to stop after only a few minutes, but I ( Read more... )

No 21-miler today. Postponed til Friday morning. I slept better last night - and for almost ten hours - but I'm still really sick. If I were to go running today I wouldn't be able to breathe out of my nose and I'd be coughing every minute or two. I feel groggy and my head feels like it's floating above my body. I think this is the first real cold I ( Read more... )

I am sick. Really sick. Miserable. I skipped one class today but went to the last two... I'm at school right now, waiting for my last class to begin. I am planning on doing my looooong run tomorrow morning, but we'll see how I feel when I wake up. I probably got less than two hours of sleep last night because of my sickness...we'll see how tonight ( Read more... )

Time: 4pm
Weight training: biceps and triceps
100 crunches
Treadmill- 2 mile run (17 min.), 1/2 mile walk level 10 incline (7 min.)

I went to Motion with Dave this afternoon. That wasn't the original plan since I was supposed to work tonight. I SO didn't want to work... and then they called me at 1:30 to say I was cut! I was so unbelievably happy. So ( Read more... )

Time: 1pm
Miles: 5

I had a fantastic run today. I LOVE FALL... it's my favorite time of year and today was just perfect out. As I ran on top of fallen leaves I started thinking about how far I've come in this whole thing. Back in April when I started, the weather was still chilly and fall seemed so far away, and now summer is gone and I'm still ( Read more... )

I'm not running today. I say that a lot, don't I? How do people train for a freakin marathon despite their busy, busy lives? Well, anyway, I've spent the morning writing my article for the week and now I have about four things to do for my classes this afternoon and this evening, so I just don't have time to run. I won't be home til 9:30 tonight, ( Read more... )

Time: 10am
Miles: 2
100 crunches

Oh yeah, baby. Two miles today when I was supposed to do fourteen. Not so good!

It was nice to go on a shorter run, though, because I haven't done one in a long time. I mean, when I got back home I felt like I had left a split second ago, but really, I'd run two miles. Six months ago, I would have been really proud of ( Read more... )