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Location:

Littleton,CO,USA

Member Since:

Aug 04, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

I've run off and on (more off than on) throughout my adult life. Most recently I started running in May of 2007.

5K PR: Colder Bolder in December 2009 in 22:50.

10k PR: Bolder Boulder in May 2009 in 48:06.13.

1/2 Marathon PR: Canyonlands Half-Marathon in March 2010 in 1:43:20.

Marathon PR: Newport (Oregon) Marathon in June 2010 in 3:42:17.

I have completed two full marathons.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back to consistent running.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3:30 marathon.

Personal:

I grew up in Utah, but live in Colorado now.

I am married and am a working mother of four children, ages 9-19.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Nike Lunarracer Lifetime Miles: 284.91
Brooks Adrenaline Trail Lifetime Miles: 574.62
Brooks Green Silence Lifetime Miles: 681.13
Brooks Adrenaline 10 (2) Lifetime Miles: 424.52
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
106.550.00106.55
Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 64.29Brooks Green Silence Miles: 42.26
Night Sleep Time: 163.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 163.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.020.004.02

Moderate run.

6:55 am, 25° F, 49% humidity, winds calm.

My Garmin was charged and ready to go this morning, except that I forgot that I hadn't cleared out the partial run that it recorded on Monday before giving out on me. I was 6/10 of a mile into my run when I looked down and it said I had gone 2 miles, and I realized what had happened. I stopped the watch and reset it at that point. I was able to calculate my total distance and total time, and thus average pace from the data I got, but my splits are kind of weird since I started a new run and thus a new lap when I had done 6/10 of a mile.

I pushed the pace just a little bit, so I'm calling this moderate instead of easy.

AP: 9:48. Splits: 0.62 @ 10:21, 9:51, 9:46, 9:28, 0.4 @ 9:38.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 4.02
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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3.000.003.00

Easy/Moderate run.

6:14 am, 30° F, 78% humidity, wind 2 SW.

I met Lindsay and Allie for the run this morning. I made them go on a short loop because I needed to get home early so that I could get a shower and go to Muffins with Mom at the elementary school. They probably ran some more after I peeled off to go home.

We spent the whole run arguing about education policy. It was the two of them against me. I got a little riled up and I think that made me run faster towards the end of the run. Despite the side benefit of running faster, I should probably stop picking political fights with my friends.

AP: 9:51. Splits: 10:23, 9:52, 9:19.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 3.00
Night Sleep Time: 5.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.50
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6.000.006.00

Moderate run.

6:53 am, 27° F, 38% humidity, wind 6 SW.

It's Saturday so I got to run with Michelle. Hooray! I love running with Michelle. She is doing a beginner's finish-a-marathon plan with intent to run the Utah Valley Marathon. I am not going to run the Utah Valley Marathon, but I am going to do her training plan with her so that I can run with her on Saturdays. Her plan has 4 days/week throughout and the longest distance on a weekday is 8 miles, but the Saturday distances steadily increase up to 20 miles. I figure if I do this plan with her, then maybe at the end I'll be fit enough to do a more aggressive marathon training plan for a Fall marathon, possibly.

But here's my conundrum: My plan was to run 4 days/week for three weeks and then add in a 5th day and do that for a few weeks and then add a 6th day. I've now run 4 days/week for the last three weeks, so it's time to bump it up according to my original plan. However, if I'm also increasing distance every Saturday in order to stick with Michelle, maybe it's not a good idea to increase weekday running too quickly as well. Maybe it's better to stick with the 4 days/week but increase the distance on those days, like the plan does. Any thoughts, anyone?

We did basically the same 6 mile loop that I used to do except we started from her house instead of my house. If you start from my house, the big hill is in mile 2. Starting from her house, the big hill was mile 5+ (the hill is about 1.2 miles). It really shows in the splits. But at least this time I didn't stop on the hill like I did last week. But we also ran the hill a little slower today than we did last Saturday.  We'll probably switch to the trail for Saturday runs in a little while, but maybe we should stick with the streets so that we can work on that hill.

AP: 10:02. Splits: 9:57, 10:03, 9:57, 9:43, 10:45, 9:48.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
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Easyish run.

6:40 am, 22° F, 81% humidity, wind 4 NNW, freezing fog.

My kids are off school today because the teachers have a professional development day, so I was able to run a little later. I met up with Lindsay and Allie at our standard meeting corner. We ran the same loop that I run with Michelle on Saturdays. But from where we started, the big hill started just before 1.5 miles into the run and went until 2.5 miles into the run. It was hard, but not as hard as it is for me on Saturdays. Maybe I do better with it if it's early in the run instead of at the end. Or maybe it made a difference that we ran on the other side of the street for the Gleneagles part of the hill.

We got just a dusting of snow last night and the snow was on the grass only, but the sidewalks were slick in spots. And I took my glasses off about a half mile into the run because they were all fogged up and carried them in my hand for the rest of the run. I couldn't ever put them back on because the lenses quickly became covered with a thin layer of ice.

I didn't set out to run 5 miles today, but I ran straight home from the point at which we all split up and when I got to my street, I was at about 4.6 miles with about .1 mile to home, so I decided to do an extra little loop in my neighborhood and make it an even 5 miles.

We're supposed to get a decent snow storm tonight. Because of that and because I ran a little longer today than I have been running on weekdays, I think I won't run tomorrow. I hereby resolve to do the shred tomorrow instead. Maybe if I put it in writing I'll actually do it.

AP: 9:57. Splits: 10:01, 10:09, 9:59, 9:53, 9:46.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50
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I finally did the shred this morning. I've been thinking of doing it for a long time, but it took my publicly declaring my intentions yesterday to get me to do it. Inasmuch as I have not done it lo these many months, I'm sadly out of shape, and I will probably still be feeling this tomorrow.

Incidentally, we did not get near as much snow as expected last night. There's just a thin layer of snow and ice on everything outside. My son will be disappointed. He was hoping to earn money from shoveling.

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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4.530.004.53

Easy run except when it wasn't + 3 x 10 sec. hill sprints.

6:30 am, 23-28° F, 59% humidity, wind 4 N.

Last Saturday I was debating the merits of going to the trail on Saturdays vs. staying at home and running the big hill. It finally occurred to me that I can run the big hill on weekdays. I ran it on Monday with Lindsay and Allie and I ran it today by myself. While I was running it today, I saw a couple of runners quite a ways ahead of me. I'm pretty sure that it was Michelle and her neighbor Michelle. They were too far away for me to catch or even get within shouting distance. But it occurred to me then that Michelle is running that hill on all of her weekday runs. I would do that except I think I'll skip the hill on Fridays in order to be a little more rested for Saturday. Michelle runs M, W, Th, so she gets a rest on Fridays anyway. I can't switch to Thursdays from Fridays because I have standing appointment to run with Lindsay on Fridays and she can't run on Thursdays.

I also decided to start doing short hill sprints once/week. I need to start small, so I did just 3 today. The problem with the place where I do hill sprints (besides that I have to contend with middle schoolers who are walking to school) is that after the last hill sprint, I have to run uphill to get home. But I can't do the hill sprints closer to home because the uphill to home isn't steep enough. I could move further up the hill sprint hill itself, I suppose.

I'm a little sore today, possibly from doing the shred yesterday and possibly from playing with a medicine ball while watching tv last night.

Today the big hill started at 0.9 into my run and went through 2.1.

AP: 9:57*. Splits: 9:45, 10:03, 9:44, 9:49; hill sprints: 7:27, 7:10, 7:56; 0.16 @ 10:49.

*The walking down the hill after the first and second hill sprints and then the slow 0.16 home from the hill brought down my average pace.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 4.53
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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I got up this morning and drove to seminary and then came home and was making my husband's lunch when I realized that I needed to clean out my refrigerator because my mother-in-law is coming this afternoon. If I didn't clean it out, she would find things to throw away and make me feel like a failure for having spoiled things in my fridge. I don't deal well with that scenario.

 I thought about doing the shred and then cleaning out the fridge, but my anxiety about the fridge got the better of me, so I did that first. Then I started the shred, but I had to stop after 2 circuits and drive my daughter to school. That took about 10 minutes. When I got home I finished the shred.

Now on to the rest of my busy day.

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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4.200.004.20

Easyish run.

6:15 am, 38-40° F, 33% humidity, wind 3 SE.

I ran with Lindsay and Allie this morning. I ran about 1/2 mile to the meeting place, then ran 2.5 with them, and then the rest by myself. Allie tends to run just a wee bit faster than is really comfortable to me, so I was slightly out of my comfort zone for the first couple of miles. They weren't blistering fast (in fact, they were rather slow), but they had a fair amount of uphill and it's hard for me to start at that pace with an uphill. It takes me a couple of miles to get warmed up. Maybe that's because I'm a good chunk older than Lindsay and Allie.

I wore long pants and a long sleeve shirt, though I was smart enough to skip the ear covering and gloves. But I was too warm by the end. I hereby resolve that next time the temperature is about 40° and it's sunny when I leave for a run, that I will have the guts to wear shorts and a short sleeved shirt.

AP: 9:51. Splits: 10:02, 10:06, 9:38, 9:43, 0.2 @ 9:30.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 4.20
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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7.000.007.00

Should be called an easy run but wasn't.

7:17 am, 30-37° F, 50% humidity, winds calm.

So I sent on the 7 mile run with Michelle. My favorite hill was mile 6, which we took very slowly. Then a little later when we were .1 miles from finishing and heading uphill, Michelle decided to run fast. I tried to hang with her and made it the .1 miles, at which point I stopped and puked for several minutes. Apparently now I can't run at 9:00 pace for one minute without puking. OK, it was running uphill and was at the end of a run, but still. I am pathetic. If I keep running, I'll get better, right?

I told Michelle that Jillian would be proud of her for pushing me to the point of puking.

AP: 10:09. Splits:10:03, 10:02, 9:58, 9:59, 10:10, 10:55, 9:53.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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6.000.006.00

Easy run.

6:40 am, 31° F, 40% humidity, wind 2 SSE.

I met Lindsay at the corner as is the custom on Mondays if I've got someone besides my daugher at home. College boy is on Spring Break this week, so I was able to observe this custom.

Allie did not join us today. I don't know why.

Lindsay seems to have this mental block about running farther than about 4.5 miles. I tried to get her to go farther today because we're talking about doing the Bolder Boulder in May and so she's going to have to start running a little longer at some point. So I stuck with her longer than I would have normally. We took an extra loop that we don't usuallydo, but then got to back to her house at about 4.8 miles. I wanted her to keep going to 5 miles, but she said she had to go to the bathroom. That is always her excuse for stopping.

It's about a mile between her house and my house and so I was at about 5.8  or 5.9 when I went past my house, but I kept going far enough to make it an even 6. Maybe I shouldn't have. Maybe I should have stopped at 5.6 when I got a little pain in my right butt. It's feeling a little tight, but not too bad. Maybe it will feel better after a day off from running tomorrow.

We were really slow today. I guess we need Allie to make us run faster.

AP: 10:25. Splits: 10:48, 10:41 (this was the big hill), 10:08, 10:14, 10:36, 10:01.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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Shred.

Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
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5.230.005.23

Slightly faster than easy run + 4 x 10 sec. hill sprints.

7:06 am, 48° F, 35% humidity, wind 4 S.

I slept in a bit, then got up and went out in shorts and a short-sleeved shirt and had a fun run all by myself. I ran the standard 4-mile route that includes the big hill, with some extra at the beginning and at the end to make it 5 miles. I wanted to finish 5 miles before I started the hill sprints, and then walk home after doing the hill sprints instead of trying to run after them to get more mileage. The big hill was from about 1.3 to 2.4.

Since I was running alone, I listened to the running playlist on my iPod. I started out with Spanish Flea, which was a good one to get me going, and then I had Defying Gravity on the first part of the big hill, which is the steeper part. I was on shuffle within the playlist, but it worked out quite well for the whole run.

AP for the first 5 miles: 9:42. Splits: 10:02, 10:01, 9:35, 9:23, 9:31.

Pace on hill sprints: 7:04, 7:40, 6:07, 7:49.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 5.23
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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3.560.003.56

Very slow easy run.

6:15 am, 28° F, 78% humidity, winds 4 E.

After running in shorts in the warm weather on Wednesday morning, I had to get back into the cold weather gear this morning. I just felt rather sluggish today and could not get going fast. But then again, I didn't really try because I don't want to wear myself out today. I'm doing an 8 mile hilly run with Michelle tomorrow morning.

I met Lindsay and we ran a short route together. We actually split up nearer to my house than to her house than we usually do, and so she had the longer route home. As a result, she ran further than I did today. And I was the one who wanted to stop for the bathroom.

AP: 10:26. Splits: 10:57, 10:23, 10:04, 0.56 @ 10:19.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 3.56
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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8.000.008.00

Medium-long run.

7:16 am, 34° F, 59% humidity, winds calm.

I can't really bring myself to call 8 miles a long run. The last training plan I did called anything from 10-14 miles a medium-long run and it had to be at least 15 miles to be a long run. So by that system, I'm far of from a long run and 8 miles shouldn't even be a medium-long run. But with the way I've been running lately, 8 miles is something more than your ordinary distance. I checked in my log, and unless I'm mistaken, the last time I ran 8 miles or more was last August 14.

We've been running from Michelle's house on Saturdays, but I made her come over and start from my house today. If we start and finish at her house, the biggest hills would be at the last part of the run. If we start and finish at my house, the last mile is mostly down hill. We were having such a hilly run today I didn't want to finish with an up hill. Finishing up hill is very hard for me. Michelle handles it better than I do. Incidentally, according to my Garmin, we had 691 ft. of ascent on this run.

Michelle likes to sprint at the end of the run and she ran the last 100 yards as fast as she could. I sped up too, but not as much as she did. I didn't want to repeat my puking episode of last Saturday.

It was a pretty slow run over all. I guess that's acceptable as we increase mileage.

AP: 10:12. Splits: 10:11, 9:56, 10:01, 10:17, 10:31, 10:10, 10:31, 9:58.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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6.500.006.50

Easy run.

6:40 am, 34° F, 37% humidity, wind 5 SW.

When I turned on my Garmin this morning it gave me a low battery warning. That's a bad sign when you get a low battery warning as soon as you turn it on. I was confused because I just charged it last Friday, and have only used it on my Saturday run since then. But I think it got left in the charger but not plugged in after I uploaded my run on Saturday, and that must have sucked the power out of it. In any case, I had 10 minutes until I had to be out the door, so I charged it for 10 minutes. I really didn't think it would last for my whole run, but happy day, it did.

I met Lindsay a little ways past the corner where we're supposed to meet. She has an iPhone and she downloaded some mapmyrun app for it and got an arm band, so she had that to track distance. That was good since I was worried about my Garmin dying and I wanted to make sure that she did 5 miles today. Because we met beyond half way between our houses, I had gone about .3 miles more than her.

My watch was just past 4 miles when we made it to her house. She went in for a pit stop and I stretched a little, then she came back out and we did a mile loop that brought us back to her house, so she got 5 miles in. But then I still had to run home from her house.

At one point a squirrel joined us and ran along the top of a fence just ahead of us for a little while. He was faster than us, but I think we could have outlasted him.

College boy is back in school after being off last week, but my other kids are on Spring Break this week.  That makes my mornings a little more leisurely.

AP: 10:07. Splits: 10:18, 10:21, 10:16, 10:03, 9:55, 10:06, 0.5 @ 9:34.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 6.50
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
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My daughter practiced the piano this morning while I was doing the shred. That woke up her teenage brother.

Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50
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6.270.006.27

Not quite easy run + 5 x 10 sec. hill sprints.

7:52 am, 36-44° F, 28% humidity, winds calm, sunny.

I started out with Spanish Flea again like I did last Wednesday, but the random songs after that weren't as good as last Wednesday and I did not feel as strong as I did last Wednesday. I did the old 6 mile route that I used to do all the time. It has the big hill I talk about all the time in it. It was in roughly the 3rd mile today. I followed up the 6 miles with 5 10-sec hill sprints.

The weather station I looked at before I left said 31°F, so I wore two shirts but skipped the ear band and gloves because I knew it would be warming up. I'm not sure how accurate that 31 was, because halfway through the run I took the outer shirt off and I was wishing for a short sleeved shirt at that point. I think the weather stats I've posted above are more accurate. In any case, it certainly did warm up a lot during my run and it was very sunny.

AP for the first 6 miles: 10:03. Splits: 10:27, 9:59, 10:11, 9:43, 10:04, 9:53.
Pace on the hill sprints: 7:46, 8:15, 7:19, 6:50, 6:23.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 6.27
Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50
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5.500.005.50

Easy run.

6:00 am, 33° F, 46% humidity, winds calm.

I decided to run on Thursday instead of Friday this week to see if that makes me more rested and better able to handle the Saturday long run. Since I normally run with Lindsay on Fridays, I called her to see if she wanted to run Thursday with me instead. She agreed, but her husband has to be work earlier on Thursdays and so we had to start a little earlier than we do on other days. That meant I had to break out the head lamp again.

We did loop that got her back to her house by the time her husband needed to leave, and then I had to run home from there by myself. When I got near to my house I realized that if I went home the normal way I would be a little under 5 miles when I got home. I could go a little past my house and then back to get the 5 miles, but instead I decided to take a detour. Well, the detour turned out to be longer than I anticipated, so instead of approaching 5 miles as I got to my house, I was approaching 5.5 miles as I approached my house. So I went a few house lengths beyond to get to the 5.5 miles then stopped and walked back home.

AP: 10:08. Splits: 10:30, 10:13, 10:01, 10:05, 10:01, 0.5 @ 9:44.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 5.50
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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10.000.0010.00

Long run.

7:17 am, 27-38° F, 85% humidity, wind 2 various directions.

I've decided that 10 miles qualifies as a long run. Michelle and I ran together as we have done for the last several Saturdays, but for the first time in a long time, we went to the Highline Canal Trail today. We decided that the softer surface and fewer hills would be better.

The trail was pretty empty when we first started. I think we only saw one other runner (and a coyote) in the first 3 miles. But then shortly after that the masses came out and there were a lot of runners on the trail. I guess they all got a slightly later start than we did.

We keep adding just a little distance each Saturday, but so far so good.We pushed the pace the last 0.1 and I kept up with Michelle this time and didn't quite throw up.

The last time I ran 10 miles or more was last July 31, when I ran 12.09 miles, so in a few more weeks here I will exceed that, and then I'll have to go back to the marathon I ran last June to get a longer distance than what I'll be running on Saturdays then.

AP: 10:03. Splits: 10:08, 9:59, 9:50, 9:51, 9:56, 10:10, 10:15, 10:11, 10:15, 9:50.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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6.610.006.61

Easy run.

6:03 am, 33° F, 83% humidity, winds calm.

Everyone is back in school this week and so I had to start my run earlier than Lindsay and Allie start on Mondays, so I went out by myself. In retrospect, I'm glad I went out earlier. Explanation forthcoming.

I felt really sluggish today. I did feel a little better for the second half of the run; however, it started snowing in earnest when I had about two miles to go. That's why I'm glad I started earlier. If I had started at the later time, almost all of my run would have been in the snow, instead of just a 1/3 of it.

I looked at potential training schedules for myself over the weekend. I'm currently doing whatever I want during the week and then doing Michelle's long runs with her on Saturdays. I'm thinking about running the American Discovery Trail Marathon on Labor Day. There are 12 weeks between the marathon that Michelle is training for and the ADT marathon. I've been thinking about doing the Hudson plan that I did for the Ogden Marathon a couple of years ago. It's a 20 week plan. Rather than cut it down to 12 weeks, I thought I could overlap the first 8 weeks of it with the last 8 weeks of Michelle's plan and do my plan on week days and her plan on Saturdays. However, to do that I would have to start my plan 3 weeks from now and the first week of that plan would be about 46 miles. I ran 28 miles last week, and so I'd have to ramp up to 46 over the next 3 weeks, and I've already been increasing my weekly mileage fairly significantly over the last few weeks. So I'm not sure if this is a wise plan. I think I'll look into some other alternatives and just kind of play it by ear. However, I do think it is time for me to go from running 4 days/week to 5 days/week. I've been doing 4 days/week consistently for several weeks now. So to that I end, I plan to run an easy 3 tomorrow.

AP: 10:20. Splits: 10:30, 10:32, 10:47, 10:06, 10:25, 9:54, 0.61 @ 9:56.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 6.61
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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3.000.003.00

Easy run.

5:42 am, 29° F, 79% humidity, wind 3 NW.

I managed to carry out my plan this morning of running 3 miles before driving to seminary. After the drive to seminary, I did the shred. Then I spent a good chunk of time struggling to assemble a miniature green house that my daughter got in a Scholastic book order yesterday. I finally gave up with that. Now I've got to get ready for work.

AP: 10:15. Splits: 10:39, 10:20, 9:46.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 3.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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6.630.006.63

Easy run.

6:08 am, 33° F, 53% humidity, winds calm.

I confirmed my suspicion about why I can't run as fast as I used to. I stepped on the scale last night. I knew I had gained weight, but I didn't realize how much. I've gained 25-30 pounds since I ran the Newport Marathon last June. I really need to get serious about weight loss again. I tried keeping a food journal last Monday, but I only made it through lunch and then I felt apart in the afternoon and evening. That's typical for me. I do pretty well in the morning. The problem comes later in the day. But maybe my publicly declaring my failures here on the blog will help me to be more disciplined and accountable. I've got consistent running going again now. I've got to focus on my diet now.

In the good news department, I ran the same route today that I ran on Monday and I was just a little bit faster today.

AP: 10:07. Splits: 10:18, 10:05, 10:28, 10:02, 10:19, 9:50, 0.63 @ 9:43.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 6.63
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
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5.500.005.50

Easy run.

9:26 am, 54-57° F, 38% humidity, wind 20 WNW.

I didn't have time to run early this morning because I had to cook a birthday breakfast for my husband, drive my son to seminary, and be on a conference call for work from 8:00 to 9:00 (during which time I had to drive my daughter to school). So after everyone was off to school and my conference call was over, I got dressed and headed out for my run.

It is rarely very windy when I run early in the morning. The wind doesn't get going until it warms up. So today I got to run in the wind. It's not the East Central Illinois wind that Tracy has to deal with, but it was much more wind than I'm used to.

I ate better yesterday and I wrote down everything that I ate. But it was quite a struggle and I was hungry a lot. But maybe that's because I probably didn't eat quite enough. I think I was around 1000 calories for the day. I probably should eat a little more than that, but not too much more. Getting enough calories shouldn't be a problem today. It's my husband's birthday, and so we'll be going out to dinner, probably to a Mexican restaurant. I will try not to eat any chips.

AP: 10:06. Splits: 10:25, 10:13, 10:06, 9:55, 10:07, 0.50 @ 9:37.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 5.50
Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
106.550.00106.55
Brooks Adrenaline 10 Miles: 64.29Brooks Green Silence Miles: 42.26
Night Sleep Time: 163.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 163.00
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