I <3 RUNNING

This was a great way to start out the New Year! My dad and I went running on some river trails. It was lots of fun just to get out and run. It was so pretty outside today; it made it all the more beautiful. Felt good to exercise after all that Thai Food last night. I’m excited for this next year of running and hope I can improve!!

1 mile....8:27  Down Hill

2 mile....9:19

3 mile....9:12

Missed running with my dad today!! I know I didn't run as fast as I would of if I was running with him. Felt a little courageous and did four miles instead of 3. It actually wasn’t that bad, now that I have a stable three under my feet. It was a little slower but not to bad. One of my goals for this year is to increase my miles, but not until I’m steady on the one I’m working on. I made a mistake last time ran to many miles to fast. So this time slowly build up to it. Today I ran over to Arctic Circle and down past the strip mall, turned around and ran back. It was at 3.75 miles when I got home so I did a quick lap around the block until I hit four. It was a great run! Avg. Pace 9:39

Went running all-alone again L !  I can tell I NEED my dad to run with me!! I ran a big lap around my block (1 mile) and was doing okay till I finished that and was on to my second heading to Arctic Circle. I decided I didn’t need to be working as hard as I was when all I was doing was training. Slowed down way to much!!! Saw my time for that mile and new I needed to get my butt in gear. The rest was lots faster!!! Finished at the hospital and my dad picked me up! It was a really fun run!! Some guy though called me a few dirty words why we were stopped at a stoplight. UGGGG that makes me so MAD!!! Fun run all the same!   

Ran with my DADDY-O!! Wahoo it was a great run! We ran down 2450 and onto a trail and over to the post office. Mom picked us up….I was not about ready to go flying up the 2450 hill!! I’ve never seen so much wildlife on a run in my life!! We saw a few rabbits and other things…but there was a BIG FAT rabbit on STEROIDS!! It sort of scared me silly…my dad survived (I think). Avg. Pace 9:06 (better now that I have my dad!! We were a little more consistent) FIRST MILE 8:24 LOVED THAT MILE!!

Good thing I have a buddy!! I don't think I would have gone running today if it weren't for my dad. Funny thing is we both didn’t want to go running but convinced each other, trying to convince ourselves. It turned out not to be bad. It was a warm winter night, a little windy, but felt great. The whole run went smooth no problems for me. Its one of those runs that after you go your just happy you went! Loved running with my dad, although he confused me to death when he was talking about where we were    going…. Men!! But I love him cause he puts up when me…he’s a probably saying…Women!! Avg. Pace 9:21

OH NO...WE ARE GOOD!!! My dad and I went running on our usual run down to Arctic Circle.  I started out not wanting to go running, but went because that’s just what I do. We got out and started running! Why we were running I noticed my horrible attitude about running. I put on a smile and thought of the positive things it does for me, in my life. My dad has been talking to me about different things he’s read about running. One was that running is just apart of life, it just happens. I thought now I can run happy or I can run mad, one way or the other it’s going to happen. We jogged the entire run, felt like a few minutes. AND THE PRACTICE IS PAYING OFF!!                   AVG. PACE 8:12 ----I just about got a PR on my race pace....not even running at my race pace!!

1-    1-8:08

2-    2-8:12

3-    3- 8:11

WE ARE SO GOOD!

**Goal of the week: RUN HAPPY!!

Sort of came home on the wrong foot…..Life….. It wasn’t the running part; it was just a bad day at school. Flipped onto my blog space, read it, decided I need to be HAPPY, not only with running but with life!! I waited until I felt a little bit better. My dad ended up going with me and it was a great run. Felt good to get out and just run. We went down to the hospital and kept running to the post office and around there till we got 4 miles. I can’t find my watch and I hit stop too many times. First we thought we were just going to the hospital, that turned into the post office and that turned into run until we hit four miles. It was great and our times were great (not as fast as Monday)! All in all it was a lot of fun!

**Now that I’m looking back I don’t know how I went that fast on Monday!!!                 I WAS SUPERWOMEN!!!    

Today was the best run ever!! I went to the high school and met some of the girls from the cross country team to go running with. We ended up running the trail run. Ran down 2450 onto the trail and over to the post office, where my mom picked us up. We talked the entire way!! We didn’t go all that fast, but I was more than okay with that! WAHOO!! I couldn’t stop smiling the entire run, and I probably talked way too much!! I loved every minute of it!

I’m not really sure how fast I went or how far I went either, but I went running!!  I started out just running to Arctic Circle with a few of my XC girl friends, way fun!! The only problem is I need to be pushing myself a little bit harder. Somewhere within my friends and myself I want to run with them but still be pushing. Not that they're bad and i'm good, everybody is just on different levels,and I really do understand that.I got back from Arctic Circle and didn’t feel like I had personally done my best or enough so I ran some laps! I was fast and it felt way good! The Arctic Circle run is 3 with 4 big ½ mile laps around the school made it 5 (maybe more?). All in all it was a good run and my legs felt amazing! I can tell I need to bump my miles up to 4 everyday!! I RAN HAPPY TOO!!

I went running with Kalli today!! I had a blast! We ran down on the trail, to the Post Office where my mom picked us up. At first it was really hard to get started I was so tired, the week is starting to take its toll. I started out sluggish (my body, my head was totally into it!!) After the first mile I was doing good that wore off about the last mile. All in all I really enjoyed getting to run with Kalli, it’s been way too long. Together we were way fast!! Avg. Pace 9:28!!!!

It’s really hard finding a time to run on Saturday. I want to run!! When you give me a whole day to do it, I put I off. So about 8:30 PM my dad, brother and I all headed out to go run the Arctic Circle loop. I started out way excited to run!!  The whole run went great running with my dad and brother. I do need to keep focusing on the positive things running does for me. It’s really helped this week and it sort of helped me tonight.  Avg. Pace: 9:18

Really fun run today!! Kali and I headed up and around the fire station loop, in Washington City. My legs from last week were sort of sore today. Kali kept me going though!! NO SLOWING DOWN!! I forgot what it felt like to run a few hills. Most of the runs I’ve done were little hills and had mostly down hills. I can tell I’ve fallen out of shape more than I thought but that means there’s room to improve. Once we got back to the school we ran a cool down, don’t want my legs sore for tomorrow, stretched really good too.  Avg. Pace—9:36

Goal: 4-5 miles a day this week

Another great run!! Ran with Amanda today! We didn’t get to run together a lot, what we did do was fun though! We ran around the school. I ran till I hit four miles. It was really tempting to stop running when she left. I really don’t like running at the school because you're there, you can stop anytime. I like going away from it because you can’t stop till you get to where you need to be. I was proud of myself for making it all the way through instead of stopping….self discipline (hahaha)!! Avg pace--9:03

Four completely unbearably cold miles today!! I am a BIG WHIMP when it comes to the cold!!  I started running and made it to the car wash when I turned back to call my mom. For a minute I was going to tell her to come pick me up! I ended up asking her to bring me a BIG coat, cloves, ear muffs, and anything else that might keep me warm! She also gave my the cell phone incase I would of got like hypothermia or something! The first mile I was against the wind. Cold wind going into your eyes = watery eyes = frozen cold face!!! The weather might have been bad but my body felt amazing running today!! I sort of took it easy though, as long as I was out running in the cold that was good enough for me. Today though on my run I decided running good wasn’t as good as running great and picked up my pace! It was a lot of fun today!!              Avg. Pace-- 9:34

After school I saw Kali and Sara and stopped to talk to them for awhile (XC friends). I haven’t seen them for awhile. Kali ran with me a little bit last week but haven’t seen her since L !! They both said they would start running next Monday though J !! After I finished talking I hurried out to where the team was suppose to be. Nobody was out there but Corey and Jeremiah. We never did figure out where everybody was at. I went off and ran five miles. At first I didn’t think I could make the whole five miles. I felt a little bit daring and did it anyway. The first mile was rough, my legs hurt a lot. After the first mile I was set, the whole run just flew by. It was one of the best runs I’ve had in a long time. I forgot my watch, but I do know it was five miles and I think that my pace was probably in the 9‘s. I tried not to relax and I think I had a pretty good pace.

I got to run with Kalli today!! I was so excited to get out and run with her!! Smiles all the way aroundJ!! I didn’t think anybody was going to be there… and there she was!! We picked the bank run. I decided as long as we got to run together, why not run for as long as we can! I enjoyed the entire run with her. She kept me going. I barely thought about my legs or body at all, I was laughing way too hard. At the last mile my knee hurt a little bit, probably cause how fare I was running. I love these kinds of runs. I especially love running with Kalli, she’s way motivating.

Feeling burned out from everything this week!! I really shouldn’t be complaining, because I didn’t race today like everybody else!! I think if I did I definitely would have crawled all the way through it. We ran to Arctic Circle and down to the post office. I loved running with my dad, it was really fun!

Before destroying a whole week of running I decided to take the day off and sleep (more like my mom decided for me, but I’m thankful she did). Been feeling sort of on the edge of being sick. Nobody wants to see me when I’m sick I’m a mess!! I’ve been relaxing all day (BORING!!), I think I’ll feel better and be able to run tomorrow?!!

I ran with Kali, Sandra and Sara!! It was so much fun to have them all out todayJ!! They decided to just go to hearts. I ended up running with them to hearts and then Kali and I from there turned it into the dog pound. My legs were a little achy but it was tolerable. It felt good just to get out and run today.

Ran with Kali and Jessica! Jessica’s new to running distance and she was amazing today. I didn’t know she was new and hadn’t run a lot before until we were mid way into our run. If I would have known we probably would have done a shorter run. She was real trooper out there!! We decided so we could all get a good run in today, that Kali and me would run ahead and backtrack to find her and push her along. It was really fun running with both Kali and Jessica. I had a blast!!! After we were done with the run I felt like I could just keep going, my legs felt so good!!

 I ran a warm up with Ruth and Amanda. We stretched and talked. Ruth left to go lift weights and Amanda had work. I ended up going to Arctic Circle. Ran there and back, the whole way there my legs hurt and half the way on the way back, at the end of the run they felt amazing though. Once I got to the school I just kept running the warm up lap because my legs felt good and I was in a good mood. Ran one after another after another until my watch hit 6 miles, and decided that was more than enough for me. I wanted to push myself on the hill and really dug into that too. I was on the crazy side now that I’m thinking about it. It was a really good run!! Avg Pace--9:37

Ran with Amanda, Kali and Chandace (I don’t know how to spell her name)!! Amanda and I went ahead a little bit (intense convocation).  The whole run just flew by. Within what felt like minutes we were done. I thought my legs would hurt today after yesterdays crazy run but they felt great!  Tomorrow Amanda and I are going to try 8 miles. I don’t know if I can make it through. It’s been a really long time since I’ve gone that fare. I think I’ll go and give everything I got as see what I get out of it.                Avg Pace--9:39 (first 3 were fast last 2 were a little slower making the average go up)

The impossible is possible!! I RAN 8 MILES, 8 WHOLE MILES, WITH A POINT .71!!! I had EFY way early in the morning, so I had to get up at 4:45 AM to run. Amanda met me outside and we drove to the end of Green Springs. Started running there and turned onto Sky Line Drive. We followed that road though till the old movie theaters. We turned left on the Boulevard. Took a left again and headed towards Sunset Tires.  Ran from Arctic Circle to hearts (D.I) and ran home!! I didn’t think I could make it but the miles just flew by. I’m glad Amanda asked me to go with her, I would of never gone that far on my own.

I know everybody loves the snowy runs but not me!!! I am the Grinch when it comes to running in any kind of cold weather. I don’t like the cold I don’t like the wind or the rain or even the snow, when it is cold. Well I do, but not running in it!! I ran with Kalli and Lacey up to hearts. A big 1.25 miles, I nearly froze my flanges (fingers) off doing it though. I really wanted to do 5, but I would have literally died attempting it. Oh-well at least I ran something today.

We took the kids back to DCFS today. We got back and my running goal was start running before I start crying. I really didn’t plan on running today but it was just the only way. I’m really broken down that they’re gone. Saying good-bye to them too was really, really hard. I ended up just running to Arctic Circle and back. I’m feeling a little bit better, thanks to the run, but I still miss them a lot. Avg. Pace—9:16 last mile-- 7:57

**Tomorrow I’ll run more.

Ran the 2450 park run today with Sandra. I’ve been looking forward to running all day. It felt amazing when I finally got to start running. A little on the chilly side today, but tolerable. When we got back to the school it was 3.5 miles and my legs were feeling great and still had lots of energy.  We ended up going onto the track and jogging some and sprinting some. We finished with running a ½ mile cool down lap.   : ) fun, fun, fun!!!

**I think I’m going to try running a really fast mile when I get done with what ever I’m running that day. Maybe?

I ran 2.5 out to Green Springs and then ran the 2.5 back. On the way there it was a killer. I really didn’t like the hills but I tried to push extra hard on them to make sure I didn’t slow down. On the way back I was a free woman! Yea there were a few hills but fast, fast, fast on the down hills. Got back to the school still feeling great and just started running the big ½ mile loop. When my watch hit 7 I called it good for the day. It’s funny how when I’ve finish my runs my legs aren’t getting so tired. I think with this next week I’m going to try going faster.