New Schedule For The New Year

With the new year upon us and a new season of race training, I’ve been pulling the new practice schedules and working on an updated routine for myself for the next couple of months. For the last few months, my schedule has looked something like this (give or take the swimming depending on facility availability [...]

Hot Ham Water

Hello!  Merry Christmas to all and an early Happy New Year! I hope everyone is having a safe, warm, and fantastic holiday. We visited D’s family for Christmas and ate mounds of terribly tasty treats.  My contribution was this peppermint bark (of course, would you expect anything else?). It is for holidays and special occasions [...]

Half Marathon Plan

I’m thinking of doing a half marathon.  I’ve never done one before.  Before this year I’d never even run a 5K but as of December 31, 2009, I will have done: 4 5K’s – I walked the first one in June due to my knees, ran the second in August in 27:01, and have two [...]

My First 10K – Race Report

The day started out with a 4:15am alarm.  Way too early. Showered, changed into several layers as I wasn’t sure how the weather would turn out, made breakfast to go, kissed D goodbye, and was on the road at 5:30.  In the car I had a sprouted grain english muffin with natural pb and ab [...]

Back on my feet.

Tonight was my first day back in the gym after the race.  It exhausted me and I felt like such a softie!  I did 30 min. of weights and then ran a little over three miles on the treadmill.  I got pretty light-headed and dizzy toward the end of the weights so I wondered if [...]