my roommate and i have been following our training schedule pretty religiously this past month. we started slow, like i said we would, to prevent injury and burnout. over the past three weeks the five minute runs have grown to 2 mile runs. we completed our first official 2 mile run yesterday morning. and while it wasn't my best work ever, (J did do some yelling and i did have some shin pain) we finished in about 20 minutes (those of you who care, that's about 10 minute miles which i'm pretty stoked about!). we usually run or cross-train as soon as i get home from work. which works out well, because i won't last much longer and she's been cooped up studying all day long so getting some fresh air and exercise is good!
i'm still trying to figure out why this run was so much more difficult than those in the past. and i think i might be able to contribute it to the first morning run of this training with six hours of sleep and no breakfast. i really need to remember that in the future. no sleep + no food = bad run :) but anywhoodle, i stretched and iced my one leg - ironically, not the leg i injured before. i believe that when we ran our 1.5 miles last week on the treadmill, that i may have irritated the heck out of my shins so i won't be doing that again, plus running on the treadmill is soooo boring! you run and you run and you run and where do you get - nowhere. i'm going to try and convince j to take a different path this week for our mid week runs so i can people watch (it's actually quite clever, people think that you are only concentrating on how you are possibly gonna keep putting one foot in front of the other and, in reality, you are thinking that they look pretty silly trying to run with their miniature chihuahua chasing after them) love it!
i'm heading to colorado this weekend!!! yay!!! and we shall see how i do going solo in the mountains for the second 2 miler on sunday - eek! the weather channel says high of 50s low of 30s and scattered showers - lungs, get ready to burn baby! (be prepared for an interesting post to come) but it's almost over and the 5K will be done (of course, we still have the marathon on the horizon, but let's not think about that now). on may 29, you will find me and j running around and in minute maid stadium for a good cause - the astro's race for the pennant 5K, supporting the astro's in action foundation http://houston.astros.mlb.com/hou/community/race.jsp
overall, it was a wonderful week! did some good running, some good cross-training, edge, saw the parents, sort of met george and barbara bush, hung out with the bayou group, celebrated my friends birthday, soaked up the sun and saw my sissy!! not too shabby for me :)
with God all things are possible
and... drum roll please..... i get to see this monkey in 20 days!!! yipee!!
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