longest run ever, beach running, back in the game

Thursday the 12th I had my longest run ever at 14 miles.  I wasn't sore the next day and felt ok during the run.  We left for the beach that friday and I only ran 3 times while gone.  two 5 mile runs and a 4.  Not good.  But I'm back at it.  I ran 6 this morning and ready to get 30+ miles this week again and keep it going.  Doing 15 Saturday morning hopefully! :)  I am amazed at the human body, and how you can train it to get stronger so quickly.  I never thought I'd go out and do a 14 mile run... training run.  Crazy.  In a few weeks that will seem short... which is a scary thought. Or a cool thought.  I feel like a real runner.

Wavering

I've been following my plan well.  For 2 weeks I only missed one run.  Ran 30 miles week before last, 20 last week.  Have 11 already this week.  I will have to run on vacation next week, so I'm sure I won't get all my miles in, but gonna try.  My friend met me this morning after I ran four, and helped me through the final 3 miles.  Ended up getting 7 and 1/2 in.  I am happy about it.  Haven't been able to sleep well at night and not sure what is up with that, but hoping it doesn't continue.

Good Early Run

I did it!  With the help of a friend, I got up at 5:30 and ran.  We had a good run too - for me, not really for her.  She is way faster than me but ran with me.  Got in a good tempo run 6 miles averaging 9:09.  I really like getting the run out of the way in the morning, but I am very tired today.

I may get up and run a local 4K on the 4th tomorrow.  Not sure yet though.  But maybe.  I'm suppose to do 3 miles so it would work out well.

Side tracked

I wish I was at the beach still... on that rainy weekend, just me and my hubby.  We had such a good time!

So the soccer tournament got cancelled because of not enough teams.  But I probably wasn't going anyway.  Yesterday afternoon at half time of the Portugal vs. Italy game, I started getting sick.  I got on the treadmill to do my daily miles and whoa, totally nauseous.  So pretty much from 3 until 10 I was puking.  It was awful.  The WORST kind of cleanse.  I weigh 5 lbs less today.  I think though that I'm feeling better now.  But to play soccer in 100+ temps would have been unfathomable.  Hopefully I can get enough fluids back to do my long run on Saturday.  Yikes.

Inspiration

So the past few days I've watched a couple of running movies.  I've come to realize that grinding out treadmill miles needs a distraction.  So the first one I watched was Spirit of the Marathon.  When I turned it on Netflix I didn't realize it was documenting a few runners training for the Chicago Marathon... how convenient!  I really enjoyed it.

The next one I've watched is the classic Chariots of Fire.  Good flick!

Have you seen any good running movies?  I still want to watch Prefontaine.

I got my six miles in on the treadmill last night watching Chariots.  It made me sad because yesterday's weather was glorious and would have been a perfect running day... but the hubby was out of town.

Today is cleaning day.  I have 3 miles on the docket, but will try to do more as I am going to miss my long run on Saturday due to the soccer tournament.

Warrior Dash

Well it was an experience!  Crazy, and dangerous, and fun.  My friends and I had a great time, I ended up 39th in my age group out of 877 and 115th overall out of 2748.  I'll take it!  It was a tough course, swimming through muddy creeks... really swimming because it was deep and climbing over logs in the water, Balancing over uneven boards, climbing up and over walls, up and over high cargo nets, crawling through fields under barbed wire, crawling through trenches, jumping over fire, crawling through mud underneath barbed wire.... well I'm sure that isn't all but most of it.  The part we ran was crazy too.  Very rocky and easy to get hurt.  Slippery and steep through these trails in the woods... sometimes you had to climb up the hills literally.  I'm pretty sore today, but happy with the results.  Now, to play in a soccer tourney next weekend... hmmmm.

Rolling with it

It's hard getting most of my miles on the treadmill since the kids are home.  I have such a mental block with it.

Friday night I set my alarm for 5:30 to get up and get my 9 mile run in before it got too hot.  My husband laughed.  He knows I never get up when I do this.  I didn't.  But I did run at 10:30 when it was HOT!  I only made it 8 like 9:50's.  Oh well.  At least I got it mostly in.  I cross trained Sunday and did 3 Monday, 5 yesterday and will do another 3 tonight after hubby comes home.  I'm sticking pretty well to the plan, just have Warrior Dash this Saturday instead of a 6 mile run.  And next week have a soccer tournament instead of a 9 mile run.  But I digress.  I will try to stay on top of the miles.