I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

An early 3.  Now that I'm at work it doesn't even feel like I ran.  I guess that's a good thing.

A little snowy and a little windy.  I had some problems with my pants while I was running.  I kept hiking them up as high as they would go, only to have them slip down every quarter mile.  My shirts were also too short, so that didn't help.  Finally I tucked both shirts into my pants.  That helped enough so I only had to hike up my pants every half mile instead.

These were all treadmill miles.  We got a little more snow overnight and some flurries in the morning.  Since the plows don't go out till it's done snowing, I stayed inside.  Oh, the agony.  I was really thirsty, too.  I stopped a couple times to drink and tell Pandora which songs I liked so that it wouldn't stop playing me some tunes.

Treadmill again, though it was a beautiful day outside.  Chuck had to supervise a basketball game...

Busy week.  Probably need to run a few mornings this week.  We'll see if that happens :)

A sort of ladder on the treadmil.  .25 at 6.3, .5 at 6.4, .25 at 6.3, .5 at 6.5, .25 at 6.4, etc.  For the last mile I increased speed every .25 up to 7.0.

A little "speed" is a lot easier these days than it was even a month ago. I know that is because of the blogging--it helps me to stay in the running habit.

I have realistic expectations for the half that I am doing.  Even though it's not till late April, my goal is probably around 1:50, though I believe it'll probably a little over that.  I do not have any plans to train hard for it.  Maybe next year.  For now, I just want to put in comfortable miles without too much hard work.

Had to escort two old guys out of a basketball game.  That was fun.

Ran even though I didn't feel like it. Glad I did. This was always the trend in the fall. Come Thursday, I would always get off track. I am happy I didn't fall into that this week.

This was my first run with an average of under 9 minutes in a long time.  It felt easy.  Though I started with a first mile at 9:24, my last mile was 8:26.

Today I also took Caleb roller skating for the first time.  It did not go well.  I learned that I do not have the patience to teach him any physical skill back when he was learning to ride his bike.  Something about our personalities doesn't mesh well in that way.  I get frustrated and he gets pouty, which elevates my frustration levels, which makes him pout more.  I should have remembered that and had Chuck take him skating. 

I am happy with this run, even though my stomach was cramping during the last two miles. Maybe it was what i ate for breakfast...i don't know. It was slightly faster than yesterday, so I'm feeling good about that.

A rare treat during the week! A run outside! I had nothing clean, of course, so I was wearing the crappiest, oldest pants I have. Oh well. The run was uneventful and sans watch.

I am coming to loathe the high school basketball season. There is something going on every night. My boss, luckily, understands that I can't be at everything. However, I feel guilty about missing stuff. But I shouldn't.

I think I feel guilty because in this survey we gave to our parents, the two comments that bothered me most were: "Don't even know the assistant principal" and "the assistant principal never smiles." Though I shouldn't know who wrote the comments, I do. You better believe I smile whenever I see the mom who wrote the second comment. I do it out of spite.

An am run on the treadmill.  Not hard to get out of bed, but it was hard to get my legs moving.  I also did some strength training.  I really don't do that as often as I should.  But I've been better about it lately.

Not great on consistency this week.  Will be better next week.  I just have to plan around the nightly activities better.  Our girls basketball team won their sectional against the same team that our boys played the night I had to kick the old guys out of our gym.  I bet they were there, but I didn't see them.  I thought there might be trouble, but there wasn't.  If the girls win on Monday, they will play in the state final four next Friday. 

This run today ended up being a good one, even though it took me a while to warm up.  My phone lied to me when it told me it was in the upper 40s.  I knew it was lying, but I didn't look up the temp before I left.  I just guessed 30s.  It was 20.  That's why it took me 3.5 miles to really get into the run.  Last two miles felt really good.

Average pace was 9:05.

A nice 6 at my mom's house. Lots of people outside walking dogs or running, despite the low temps. I startled one lady with my good morning.

The traveling yesterday wiped me out. I would have liked to enjoy the 50s temps, but I went to sleep early instead. Today it was in the 20s, so I ran inside. I like that easy pace is getting faster, but I am looking forward to more pavement running when it is light outside in the late afternoon/early evening.

It is better to have run and only run two miles than never to have run at all.

Didn't want to do this run at first, but I'm terribly glad I did. It's been a long week, but it's good to end it on a nice easy run.

Our girls play in the state semi finals tonight. I know they'll do we'll and I hope they win! We had a pep assembly today at school and recognized them as we'll as other winter sports. All the starters were recognized as all-state--three of them first team. Only bad part of the day was realizing that we forgot to recognize the cheerleaders...I feel bad about that...

A run outside after some Charlotte time and some work time. The snow that we got is iced over, so I ran in the street for the most part. I am pleased with the pace of this run (8:39 average) and how it felt (comfortable). I even saw a mile split that started with a 7 for the first time in forever. Granted, it was 7:55, but still.

I am going to guess on this distance. My garmin died .2 in. I want to see how close I was when I map it. Hopefully I remember the route I took. There was a lot of going up and down blocks so I could avoid main roads and their questionable sidewalks :)

Well, I was way off with my guess of 9.7, if mapmyrun is to be believed. I'm pretty happy about this, then. But this just proves that I am a terrible judge of distance.

Three treadmill miles in between dinner and folding piles of laundry that should've been folded on Sunday.

3 treadmill miles, earlier than normal. Charlotte fell asleep at 5:45 while I was feeding her. I am going to have to wake her up now. We'll see how that goes...