The Training Blog of mickieblueeyes

Well that was it. It’s all downhill from here. I made 12 miles at a decent pace, although I don’t have a runners high. I have a runners OMG I’m tired. My actual total time out on the road was 2:41. I had to stop and stretch a few times. [...]

Workout:

Type: Run
Date: 09/26/2008
Time: 10:41:39
Total Time: 1:02:15.00
Distance: 6 miles
Average Pace: 10:22.84/mile

Workout:

Type: Run
Date: 09/25/2008
Time: 12:39:53
Total Time: 00:51:01.78
Distance: 5 miles
Average Pace: 10:12.24/mile

This morning I woke up, and felt like I was trying to get sick again. Scratchy throat, achey all over, feeling a little funny in my sides. Crap! I took today off, but I hate doing this. I know it’s not much, but I’ve gained about 3 lbs., just since I [...]

Workout:

Type: Run
Date: 09/22/2008
Time: 10:09:10
Total Time: 00:41:02.00
Distance: 4 miles
Average Pace: 10:15.38/mile

Well after 9 days off, I went back to my home town, of about 1,000 people, and did The Annual Pinenut Festival Fun Run. There weren’t very many people there, so I was the first place overall woman. I outran some young whipper snappers, (who I’m sure don’t log the miles I do) [...]

I’ve worked all year, to get back into shape, for this half on Oct 5th. Along the way, I’ve tried to impress my husband with past race times, while complaining a bit, about how slow I am now. His answer was always, “Well that was 7 years ago. You were younger then. [...]

Well it figures, two weeks before race day and I have a cold! Thursday night out of the blue whamo! I work at the school so I gues it was inevitable.
For a change, this year, I decided not to try running through it. I took off 3 days, drank gallons of [...]

1 mile warm up @ 10 minutes 3 miles @ 25:36 1 mile cool down 10 minutes
Workout:

Type: Run
Date: 09/11/2008
Time: 09:23:01
Total Time: 00:45:36.00
Distance: 5 miles
Average Pace: 9:07.11/mile