I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

This run just felt slow, but probably wasn't that bad.  I just kept it nice and easy.  The first 3 miles were around 9:10 and the last was 8:45.

I ran for a while by myself and then ran .7 with Charlotte on her bike.

We had a lice epidemic (just the two little ones) on Monday, and it was a tiring day of washing.  I already had planned on not running Tuesday. 

I need to be better about posting daily instead of posting everything on the weekends.  I think that it makes me less motivated.  But maybe I'm wrong about that.

This was outside.  I lost my watch again.  It's somewhere in the house.

Outside again, no watch.  Once again, a subpar running week.  Such is life.

Because I know that I have a full work/kid week, plus an out of the ordinary workday on Saturday, I knew I needed to run today.

It was a little warmer than I thought it was going to be, but it was windy.

2 quick ones on the treadmill.

It's been a while since I've tried to push the pace at all.  After a 5 minute warm up, I did 2 or 3 minutes of 8 minute pace followed by 2 or 3 minutes of just over 9 min pace.  

This run was interrupted several times because kids.  But I am glad I squeezed it in between work and basketball.

Sometimes I think that a blog detailing the days that I don't run would be more interesting.  However, on occasion, it would be simply because I'm just not that into it.

Anyway, today this run was one of the best I've had in a while.  I got out at about 5, had enough time to get in 3 before I had to run the boys over to practice.  My pace was pretty good because I knew I had limited time (8:54, 8:37, and then I accidentally shut my watch off, but I think I was under 8:30). 

Then I got out of the car to do 1 mile when I was at the school, and I came in under 8 min (7:54, to be exact).  And I didn't feel like I wanted to die, so that was great.

Then I came home and felt so energized, I ran 1 cool down at 8:42.

Hopefully the rest of this week I can right my running ship a bit. 

This run was not as feel good as Tuesday, but still felt decent.  Splits were 9:06, 8:45, 8:34, 8:28, 8:30.

My only goal over the next two weeks (since I'm now off for break) is to blog my run the day that I run it.  Hopefully once I re-establish that habit I'll stick with it.  Daily blogging has always helped me in consistency, which I'm now lacking.  4-5 days a week would be nice.  I'm all over the map lately. 

I lost one of my shoes.  I know it's in the house.  I'm hoping it was just swept up in a laundry basket or something.  Otherwise Griff might have stuck it somewhere weird.  I've looked every other place.  So the last two runs have been in old shoes.

This run felt slow.  I didn't wear a watch deliberately to keep it slow, but some times I can't really run by feel.

Found my shoe.  It was in a dirty clothes basket, just as I suspected.  This run was decent.  I just ran, all nice and easy.  AP was at 9:02, slightly faster at the end, but not much (last 2 miles were at about 8:50).

I treadmilled quickly before leaving for Chicago. Merry Christmas!

I foolishly listened to my mom and husband yesterday when they poop poohed my plan to run because it was too cold (0). I ran today despite their continued protests and was just fine. It was still 0. And I ran pretty slow, but it still was a good run. Not all sidewalks were shoveled, but most were.

4 outside miles.  It was as cold as the day before (somewhere around 0), but my pace was faster.

I took a suggestion from Burt and ran twice today.  The first was 5 miles, and the second was 3.  We got some snow yesterday and our roads and sidewalks are always pretty messy, so I treadmilled.  And hated every minute of it.  I ran slow throughout, with some bursts of 8:30 pace throughout.