Let's do this again

MW: 135.8
Days to Race: 241
Distance/Time: 1.67mi in 30 minutes

Still recovering from another setback, but hopefully things are all fixed or just about fixed. Now we just have to hope that they stay that way! This run might not have been my longest or my fastest, but it was a full on run with only 5 minutes warm-up and 5 minutes cool down. I think in the future I won't count that part in my distance or time.

Also, it is official. 10 days after my 30th birthday, I will be dressing up like a princess and running my rotten little heart out.

Still Waiting for My No-Hitter

MW: 136.4
Days to Race: 255
Distance/Time: 2.6 mi/43 min.

I still don't know if it's endurance or allergies or the humidity, but my lungs are just not performing as efficiently as they used to. It's probably a combination of the three. Still, I worked hard and went a bit further than I thought I could, but still no 30 minute run.

I've been reading Running and Being by George Sheehan and he makes a good point that it's not on the days that everything goes right that we build the most, but on the days that it is a fight to make any sort of improvement at all. It's an interesting book, part sports memoir and part philosophy.

Still Rebuilding

MW: 137.6
Days to Race: 257
Distance/Time: 2.41 mi/38:30 min

Still rebuilding after my "week off" (that makes it sound like a vacation). Also, it has gotten much hotter than it used to be, even at 7 in the morning. I've come back feeling like I've gone swimming, not running and I think the temperature change will take an adjustment as well. Definitely need to focus on more water consumption.

As they say in Batman Begins: "Why do we fall sir? So we might learn to pick ourselves up".

Three steps forward, one step back

MW: ??
Days to race: 260
Distance/Time: 2.25mi/30 minutes

It's been a while. Again, my health got in the way of my track record and I was laid low (read: bed ridden) for two days and just feeling crappy for a full week. Just when I was getting somewhere too. But, the past few days I've been feeling much better and best of all, my legs WANT to run! They're like two kids at Disney World begging to go on Space Mountain one more time (please? please? please?). And this morning, I was finally able to relent.

I took it nice and easy and walked for a few portions. While my legs wanted to go, my lungs were a bit more hesitant. So, it was a shorter, easier run, but one that was a promise of more to come. To paraphrase the movie, Ever After: The point is not that she ran well. The point, gentleman, is that she ran. Registration opens this Tuesday, I think, and I was worried that I'd lost my motivation to keep working towards this enormous goal. But no, I feel good, ready even, to commit.

My plan is to first, finish 3 consecutive days of the final C25K podcast. Then, it is to start running for distance, not time. My 30 minutes do not really cover the 5K that they are intended to. So, I want to get my 5K under a half hour and keep it there for a bit before beginning the bridge to 10K.