5 miles in under an hour!

Making progress and feeling amazing about it! Look how fast my 5 miles was today. I really impressed myself. I ran .9 of every mile and took a fast walk break for the last.1 then ran again and repeated that for the 5 miles. Worked out great!

GARMIN stats:

Distance:5.00 mi

Time:59:06

Avg Pace:11:59 min/mi

Elevation Gain:65 ft

Calories:816

Obsessed???

One year ago I was heading to Philadelphia to run my first half marathon. Crazy it has been a year. I remember that race like it was yesterday. A year later I have a new baby and 30 extra pounds but I am still running! 3.5 mile pretzel twist yesterday and my second half marathon in 5 short weeks that I have been training for since 3 weeks after Cash was born. You think I am obsessed?

Pretzel Twist

3.5 miles

NO WALK BREAKS!!!!!

This is the first race I have run AND the longest distance I have run since having my baby boy in late May with NO WALK BREAKS!!! This is a huge, I mean HUGE deal to me!!! I was beyond proud of myself.

My plan for this race was to run 1.25 walk .25 and repeat until the race was over. I took off feeling great. Weather was perfect- warm but not hot. Music was playing loud in my ears. Runners were sparse but around me. I was in my town. I just felt good. I looked down at my watch for the first time thinking I was getting close to the one mile mark and to my surprise, I was already at 1.4 miles. CRAZY!!! I rounded the corner and saw the water station up ahead and I knew that was the half way point. I decided to run to it and walk then. I grabbed my water took a tiny sip tossed my cup and KEPT RUNNING. I made my next small goal to keep running until mile 2. Mile 2 came and I will felt great. I kept on trucking. Slowed down a bit but never walked. :) I crossed the finish line at 37:34 running! Happiest girl in the world right here. My cute family was waiting for me and so was the free breakfast bar.

I would run this race again FOR SURE! Tech shirt and all. Of course my little Ella did the kids fun run after and LOVED it!

Ready to call it QUITS!

I have never hated running...

until right now.

I hated my run this morning.

It hurt.

There was pain in every ounce of my body.

Stats:

Distance:9.00 mi

Time:2:02:30

Avg Pace:13:57 min/mi

Elevation Gain: 266 ft

Calories:1,322

Right now, the way I feel, I may never run again...

Amos Herr 5K

This race was a little different than other races I have run. It was an evening race. Strange, right? Rain Rain and more RAIN poured all day before the event. I was nervous. My 4 year old was signed up and very excited for her first Kids Fun Run and I was sad that she might not be able to run. The clouds looked dark and mean. We arrived at the race and the opted to start the kids run first. Rain lightened and off the kiddos went...

After the kids run, the skies opened up and the rain stopped completely. I was happy to get my run on. I did not have a set plan for this race. Just to run as long as I could and take walk breaks when needed.

I ended up taking 3 walk breaks. about 90 seconds at each mile. Crossed the finish line in just over 35 min so I beat my goal by 10 whole minutes!!!

7 mile training run

This run went fairly well for me I think. I did 5 min run and 5 min walk intervals for the whole run. GARMIN stats:

Distance:7.00 mi

Time:1:30:12

Avg Pace:13:10 min/mi

Elevation Gain: 931 ft

Calories:1,035

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