A mom’s journey of chasing sanity one mile at a time.
Finally! I went out for my run Tuesday morning and noticed a difference in the temperature. Bring on the cool mornings! Tuesday’s run was 6 miles. One mile easy pace, 4 mile tempo, 1 mile easy (8:21, 7:44, 7:40, 7:29, 7:17, 8:02). There are 6 and half weeks until my marathon. I’ve been trying to […]
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. […]
You can certainly tell that the school year is quickly approaching around here. Fall sports are in full swing, and I feel like we are running from one place to another all the time. Yesterday, Molly left for cheer camp. This mama struggles sending the kids away, but I know she’s having fun. And just […]
Happy Monday! This weekend was busy and fun at our household. Saturday morning was filled with football and cheerleading practices, so to get my long run in I woke up at 5:00 a.m. and was out the door by 5:45. On my schedule I had 15 miles with the last 4 miles being at marathon […]
Happy Friday! Today’s workout was a 4 mile run at an easy pace, followed by this arm workout and this ab workout from Blonde Ponytail. She has some great workouts over there! So yesterday, I mentioned that one thing I took away from my last marathon training was that I was consistently training too fast. I’ve done a lot of […]
This morning I woke up nice and sore courtesy of my strength training workout yesterday. Especially in all those places runners tend to be the weakest. It made me nervous as I headed out for today’s run, but like usual, running made everything loosen up, and I felt really good. Today’s run was 6 miles […]