Pride.

I'm going to take a moment to be proud of myself. I ran eight miles over last weekend. EIGHT MILES!! To me, that sounds like a lot. I can't even think where I'll start running now that the widest circle I know has run out. Now to expand westward!

No Internet

So due to issues with a bad roommate situation, I woke to find I have no internet. I'll try my best and remember to post this once I can get to a connection.
More importantly, my run today was great! I had a stitch in my shoulder blade again. Hopefully I'll take it easy today and tomorrow and it will take care of itself. Really enjoy my 5 mile loop, and need to check out a website Colleen told me about, mapmyrun.com where I can look up maps of my area and find where a good route would be for my next few weeks. Really pumped about all of this, and excited to start thinking about getting dressed up for the actual race. Big question, should I sew something, buy something, or alter something? Whichever way, so excited!!!
Now to bed. Good night!

Wine and Wind Down

Tried a little something new, a Brazilian Butt Workout. Turns out I can't maintain speed at extreme inclines. Ended up lowering the speed and keeping to the incline schedule. Finished the rest of the three miles with my usual 1-1-1 ratio and feel great!! Finished up with some yoga, with my new yoga partner, Katara, helpings with my pigeon, and Eve joining in on happy baby.
Opened up the bottle of wine Ivan bought my mom, and now we're watching The Bachelor!!
Great news from two places today! Morgan said she'd like it if I ran the Neverland Family Fun Run, and Mom is thinking about coming! Then I got the chance to talk to my Mermaid Princess Sister who registered for the Tinkerbell Half-Marathon and will run with me! Already so excited to spend January with my sisters!!

Inspirational sights

This morning I woke up really nervous. Up until now, the most I ran on the regular was 3 miles. With skipping the five mile run last week, I was nervous about possibly not making it. Wearing out early and missing my goal. I tried a new route that took me over past a church that has pretty good quotes on their sign. Last time I ran past, I had some personal issues and was praying very hard for my family, when I looked up to find the sign said "You always have a Father to run to, Earthly or Heavenly". Today, with nerves asking if I could make it, I saw "Give God your best, He'll take care of the rest." gave me the strength to pound on to get my six miles in. Feels good to prove myself wrong!!

Late starts.

The past two nights, I've been getting home fairly late, and as a result decided to reward myself with a little extra sleep. Bad idea! Running at 8:30 is so much worse than running at 6! The sun beats down, more people to watch, and I'm finding that I need a more sport-type sunscreen! Yesterday my 24 hour protection, SPF 30 lasted way less than an hour. Today, using waterproof SPF 50, I reached up to wipe off sweat and came back with a lot of sunscreen on my fingers. Not fun. Luckily my burn yesterday was a quick healer, haven't had mind to inspect today. Still all hot and red from my run. Yesterday was 4 miles, today was an easy 3. One more run to end Week Three!
Need to register for the race this week!!

Week Three!

Last week finished rough, with me missing two runs but I'm going to look at the positives and keep going :)
This morning was 3 miles and I finished in under 40 minutes so for an easy maintenance run I say it's pretty good!