Mauri's Training

Ran around the river for 7 miles.  Not to tired after yesterdays run.  I was glad to get out early.  Not to many people out yet. 

Had planned on taking today off until Marlin signed us up for the Firecracker 5K Freedom Run this morning. First 5k ever.  It was fun doing a shorter race.  This was the first race I really pushed myself.  I've never pushed myself like this in a race before.  I could tell my pace slowed as the race went on.  I was happy to do a 7:34 to finish in 23:31.  And, finished in the top 100...barely - 98th out of 700+ runners.  But, did it. Second in my age group.  There was no way I could compete with who came in 1st.  She was way more advanced than I am. I didn't run anymore for the day since it was my day off.  Spent the rest of the day going to the parade, home for a short while, went down the river and then to a friends house to eat and hang out.  Home and a nap!   

It was great spending time with friends.  They're all trying to lose a few pounds and exercise.  It was great to encourge them to actually work towards a half - marathon!  

Pretty good run early this morning.  I was so glad to be out before 5am.  Hopefully I'll get to bed early tonight to do it again tomorrow. Ran 8 miles.  Still feel like I'm recovering from the long run on Sat. and race on Monday. I could just have been tired from being up late last night.  It was midnight before we got to bed. Sure did have a fun time with Marlin yesterday.  I wasn't sure what I thought when he signed us up for the 5k race, but it ended up being pretty fun.  I've been walking 20-30 min's at work on lunch lately. Just count it as 1mile.  One of these days I'll have to measure it.

Nice run in the morning. I just love getting out early. I get to work alittle later, but it's alright.  Work so getting hectic. Lots of changes and have not heard if I'm moving to another account. Kind of hope I do.  A change would be good.  But, until then, work as normal. 

Another early morning run!  I was alittle more tired this morning. Marlin and I got massages last night and boy was that nice! Need to do that more often.   Walked over lunch for 25 min's.

I didn't run this morning because I wanted to have more time to do a longer run.  I knew I wanted to do 10 miles and I didn't want the stress of getting to work. It wasn't the best run I've had for awhile.  It was warmer and breezy.  I was glad I finished it out.   Heading to the cabin for the next couple of days.

Ran up at the cabin in the morning.  Was glad to get out as early as I did because it started to get warmer than I like.  Nice hill we get to run up there.Took off from the cabin, ran down to Buttermilk boat dock - went back and up to the main road.