The Training Blog of mickieblueeyes

I am one happy camper!!! First I have to thank my husband, and two wonderful boys, for coming with, and supporting me. And, for putting up with all my wining, and all the time I spent running this year. Also, thank you all for your support and encouragement.
Now for the [...]

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

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) [...]

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

Wow, I feel great. Sunday, at sunrise, I ran 10 miles in beautiful central Nevada, 7,000 feet up, near the ghost town of Berlin. I went 5 miles out, it was downhill all the way. I was afraid I’d really struggle getting back up, but I made it the whole way. [...]

1 mile wu @ 10 3 miles @ 25:21 1 mile cd @ 10
Workout:

Type: Run
Date: 08/27/2008
Time: 07:14:24
Total Time: 00:45:21.00
Distance: 5 miles
Average Pace: 9:03.81/mile

9 miles today and I only stopped at the halfway to dump the pepples out of my shoe. The course I ran today had an uphill grade going out, and I barely noticed it, after those mountain runs the last couple of weeks. Of course the downhill coming back help. I felt [...]