day 99

today is day 99 in my 100 day countdown!

the plan of action is to run tuesdays and thursdays with my long run taking place on saturdays. incorporated into this will be rest days and cardio days - have to keep that blood pumping but still give time to recoop. so lets see how i did the first two weeks of training shall we?!

week one:
a trip to see my sister and brother-in-law, shannon&kevin, in colorado gave me a chance to try out hills (which i'm fairly certain i didn't need to experience for at least a few more weeks). can i just say, i don't like hills! there is a reason, if only one, that houston is the place to run and that reason is that it is as flat as one can possibly get, in fact, i'm sure there are places that are downhill in both directions. add the altitude, lack of oxygen and the monkey bread that we devoured the night before to a colorado run and forget about it. i managed to log 2 miles but i'm pretty sure that all the extra effort added like 10! i'm just saying :) oh oh and it was freezing - i could see my breath, truly i would not lie - and did you know that cold air really hurts the lungs? well now you do! and that was week one!

week two:
goal - run 3 to 4 miles twice this week and 4 on saturday.
accomplished - 3.4 miles on wednesday and cardio yesterday, today is not over and saturday has yet to arrive.
actually, jessica and i decided to take advantage of the pool last night and i'm so glad that we did. we began by just swimming laps, because that is what one normally does in a pool, and then it just evolved from there. running across a 4ft deep pool in a race against one another is extremely difficult (well, not extremely, but still pretty dang hard) and alot of fun! i'm sure we probably "ran" a mile in the water :) you must know that this was after we went shopping where i managed to find two necklaces and a shirt, which i'm wearing today, all for under 10 bucks! (it's not all about running)

i will have to let you know how the rest of the day and week goes!

with God all things are possible