Slow and Steady

This felt like a good run for me, I am finally getting back in the groove

After 3 miles, my body just shut off, and I had to walk.  I think I was dehydrated, but I got the miles in I guess!

I did this run with my double jogging stroller, which was tough!!  But I did it.  This is the most I have run pushing the twins!

I have been trying to increase my Saturday long runs by 1 mile a week, so I set out to do 6 today.  I was pretty happy with the distance.  I took my husband's Garmin with me to get the distance correct.  I have decided in the past few weeks, that I really just don't like running with a watch, because then I am more concerned with the time, and it just depresses me.  It took me about 1 hour and 20 minutes to do this run, and I think probably at about a 13+ minute mile average pace.  I know I am not fast, but I did get the distance.

Now for some feedback from you all....  I want to do the half marathon in September, so I wanted to just add 1 mile to each of my long Saturday runs.  So next week I would do 7.  I am wondering though if I should first get more comfortable with this 6 mile distance and improve my time before I move on to 7 miles?  The longest run I have ever done was a couple of 10Ks.  Which is 6.2 miles, I went 6.3, which makes this the longest run I have ever done.  So yeah, I am just wondering if I should get more comfortable here before I try longer distances.  What do you think?
 

I have stopped nursing my boys, so I thought it was time to start running in the mornings.  So Mik'L and I went out at 6:00AM this morning to do our run.  It was a decent run, but Mik'L is still a little faster than me, and I still have to walk a bit, but it was good.  After I got home though I was throwing up.  I wasn't feeling good Monday night, but I felt fine when I left for the run.  I am thinking that with being a little under the weather, along with a run in the morning, on an empty stomach, all just combined for a not good day, and a hard recovery.

I intended to try to get up this morning an run, but I decided I was still not feeling well.  Then my hubby came home from work today with the same thing I had yesterday.  I was going to run tonight, but then I decided maybe I just need a day to rest and get better.  We will see if I feel well enough to run tomorrow.  I feel so bad because I am finally in the zone where I WANT to run, but I probably just need to start feeling better.  

What a way to spend my day off, sick, taking care of the twins... Oh, and I had dentist appointment, so my mouth was numb for a few hours.  I wish ALL my days off of work could be like this :)
 

I did this run with Mik'l, and I am so lucky she is so patient with me, I totally bombed this run, and had to stop a couple times.  I think I was still getting over whatever bug I had.

I got up this morning and still wasn't feeling very well.  I think the combination of whatever bug I had last week, and changing my running schedule to morning has just taken its toll on my body.  I set out and met up with Mik'L.  I wanted to do 4, but when I woke up, I thought I should only do 3 so I didn't over do it.  But once we hit our stride we felt like doing more, so we comprimised with 3.5.  It felt good!  

 Thanks Mik'L for getting up early to go with me :)

 

This run felt so good.  Getting up at 5:45 AM..... Not so much!!!  My hubby goes to work at 7 AM so whatever I do, I have to be home by then.  I really wanted to do 4 miles, so I tried to push it to get back in time.  I finished this run in 44:30 ish....

So I set out to meet up with Mik'l at the entrance of her housing complex. She was going to do 4 miles and I was going to do 5 (it is 1/2 a mile from my house to hers. Anyway, I didn't really look at my watch because it just depresses me. But at 4 miles I looked at my watch and it was about 43 minutes. I had to make up a little distance to factor in from Mik'l's house to the entrance, so I made up that distance and finished my 5 mile run in 55 minutes!!!! I am so excited you don't even know. I finally feel like I have hit my stride, like I did before I had to stop running a year ago because of the twins.

I had hoped to do 6-7 miles this morning but David had to today from 6 AM to 6 PM today, and I wasn't about to get up at 4:30 AM, so I decided to run at night.  Well after the whole day of being with the twins and fun filled Saturday activities flying solo, I was exhausted.  David finally got home, and we put the kids to bed, and I left.  I wanted to do 3 miles fast, and it was HOT.  I did okay and decided to do 4.  This was one of my fastest paces in a while. 

 Mile 1: 9:50 (down hill), Mile 2: 10:40 (combo, mostly up hill), Mile 3: 10:15 (combo, mostly downhill), Mile 4: 12:25 (UP HILL).  And if I have done my math correctly that is 43:10. which is what my watch said when I finished.  The last mile to my house, no matter what way I go, is always UPHILL and it totally KILLS me.  But according t Mik'L it is level ;)

 I don't think you will see times like that out of me again for a while, I didn't much enjoy that.

 

Did 4 miles at about an 11-12 minute mile pace.  Finished in about 45 minutes.  IT was a little warmer this morning than normal :(  Thank for joining me Mik'L!!