A mom’s journey of chasing sanity one mile at a time.
This week’s long run is complete! I had to plan my long run for today, which was 20 miles. I felt really good through the first 15. The last 5 were supposed to be at marathon race pace, but the heat won out on that one today. I was a little off on my pace […]
Whenever the cool fall weather decides it wants to kick in, I will happily welcome it! These past couple of weeks have been the hottest we’ve had all summer. Right in the peak of this marathon training. Today’s run was 10 miles at easy pace (8:40 per mile). It wasn’t hard to keep it nice […]
We’ve made it to Wednesday, friends! Tuesday’s run was 10 miles. One mile warm-up, 8 miles at marathon race pace (that’s around 8:23 for me), and a one mile cool-down. It was pretty warm out yesterday, so I was a little nervous about keeping the pace that long, but I did better than I thought. […]
Just like that, and we are back to Monday! Our weekend around here was busy (which is nothing new), and this week ahead is even busier. This is one of those weeks where I will just have to tackle one day at a time. Okay, so onto running. I mentioned before that this was a […]
Good morning! Today’s run was 8 miles. Two miles easy pace, 4 mile tempo run, 2 miles easy pace. My instructions for the 4 mile tempo said that it should be “comfortably hard” and should be around 7:52-8:00 per mile. It started out fine, but by that last mile I was pushing hard to finish. […]