I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

I guess I have to celebrate little victories. This was treadmill, and that's always hard for me to be on mentally. I won't say I was exactly on, but i did power through. Various ladders with speed always helps me.

At about 2.5 miles, it started sprinkling. I was planning on 4, and thought that if it just stayed like that, I'd be good. Then 2 minutes later, it started pouring. I stopped at our cousins to maybe wait it out, then realized that it was not going to stop. So Chuck picked me up. Could I have run 1 mile on the treadmill? Yes, but my shoes were soaked. Then when I went out to get the boys from practice less than an hour later, it was back to a manageable drizzle.

In Wisconsin. This was probably more than 4, but not more than 4.2. I don't have my watch, but I did drive the route later in the evening.

In Wisconsin still. Planned on 4, then decided while I was out to make up for the missed mile on Thursday. Overall a strong run. Uphill in the last mile made me doubt myself, but I powered through.

Treadmill

Another treadmill.  Well, actually the same one, different day.

It was a wintry day.  About 25, windy, but sunny.  This was a struggle.  I stopped twice around 3 miles.  Almost stopped in the last half mile, slowed, thought better of it, didn't.  I think most of my problems are mental, though it always starts with mild panic over my cough.  Maybe I'll get my crap together this week and make a doctor's appointment.  Grade school boys basketball is really interfering with my life.

I wish I could explain my 1 mile last week, but I think I'll just sum it up by saying it was a bad week.

This treadmill 3 miles was a victory.
 

This run was a very refreshing one.  I haven't had my garmin for a while because I lost my charger.  My brother brought me his since he got a new garmin a while ago.  So it was all charged and ready to go.  This was a progressively faster 4 miles.  Breathing was okay, but I coughed a lot the faster I went.  That also could have been because of the time spent running, not the speed.  Last week I avoided a lot of things, including running and making doctor's appointments.  I probably need to get on that.

(9:09, 8:58, 8:46, 8:30).

4 miles after school. It was nice but cold out. My garmin was dead. I guess I left it on the other day.

I feel pretty good about this run.  I intended to run a tiny run (2 miles) yesterday...but played Just Dance with the kids for a while in the morning instead...and then stuffed myself with food.

Anyway, I decided that I'd do 5 today and tomorrow, which still gets me to the miles I intended to do this week.  I'm feeling better about running.  I don't know what the heck was wrong with me last week.  I started off faster than yesterday and pushed the pace in the last mile (8:59, 8:41, 8:51, 8:39, 8:12).  It was warmer than I thought it was going to be, so I stopped to take off one of my sweatshirts at the end of mile 2.

Tired, but I'm glad I did what I set out to do.  Every mile hovered around 9 min, except first and last.  It was pretty nice out, though it was windy.  I stopped at mile 2 to take off my sweatshirt and mile 4 for a stoplight and to tie my shoe.

(9:18, 8:56, 9:03, 8:56, 8:48)
 

I was laid up on Monday with a weird muscle thing in my neck.  Probably could have run on Tuesday, but basketball game.

4.25 at work.  I really meant to run 4, but overestimated my route.  There was a guy walking his dog and carrying a golf club.  I gave him a pretty wide berth.  My pace was somewhere around 8:45 average. I got progressively faster because I had a meeting at 5 and started late.

The treadmill is my biggest problem.  Mentally, I just have some issues with it.  Mostly it is the mentality that I can stop whenever I want.  At least when I am outside running, I know that I have to make it back home.