Race Reports Chicago Marathon, 2006
Stride for Fitness, 2006
Harvest Classic 10K, 2006
R0chester 1/2 Marathon, 2006
Murray Memorial, 2006
Women's Race, 2006
Summerfest 3&5 Mile Races, 2006
All Comer's Mile, 2006
Gut Buster, 2006
Spring Classic 15K, 2006
Fetzer 20K, 2006
Gut Buster, 2005
Spring Run 15K, 2005
Fetzer 20K, 2005
Fools Five, 2005
Freescale Austin Marathon, 2005
Bear Creek, 2004
Spirit Run 10K, 2004
Stride for Fitness 10K, 2004
Murray 5K, 2004
Med-City Marathon, 2004
Fetzer 20K, 2004
St. Patrick's Day 5K, 2004
Chicago Marathon, 2002
Chicago Half Marathon, 2002
Chicago Marathon, 2001
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I decided to take a step back this week, since I had been increasing my mileage each week. Not that my mileage is that great or that I am increasing that much, but we all start somewhere and there’s not much sense in overdoing things and getting injured again. I meant to keep up the 5 days/week I had going ..,
I missed Monday due to staying late at work, although I had been leaning towards that being a day off anyway. Tuesday I went running by myself and Wednesday I took Little Miss. Thursday I had planned on running but we had massive thunderstorms after work. I’d been IM’ing with S at work, talking about whether either of us was going to brave the rain (it wasn’t thundering yet), when I saw that it was in the 40s. I don’t mind running in the rain, but when it’s in the 40s it’s just too miserable. By the time I got home it was a downpour so I was glad to be inside. Friday, I lucked out and the rain was done by the time I was off work.
I had planned on running today, but when I woke up it was cold and rainy. It was much easier for me to decide to skip a day than face going outside or using the treadmill. I know I’ll be spending a lot if time on the treadmill soon and I’m not really in any hurry for that to start. Hopefully it will be nicer weather tomorrow.
Testing out the iPhone app for wordpress.
I ended September with 70.51 miles, a high for the year. I managed to run 5 miles last weekend for my “long run” and it wasn’t terrible. So progress is being made, although winter is rapidly approaching and I dread the treadmill. I actually ran all 5 days by myself, but I have been doing a decent amount of running with the BOB lately. I had a great idea the other day. I finally figured out how to fit the BOB in the trunk of my car, and I was going to pick up Little Miss and go run on the DT. The DT is right by daycare, and it seemed kind of stupid to put her in the car seat, drive 2 minutes and then get out and put her in the stroller. So I parked at the DT and then ran with the empty BOB to daycare. Then we ran together back to the DT. Running with the empty BOB was pretty weird. I’ve been tempted to run from the house to get her from daycare, but I don’t think I’d like to run 1.5 miles with an empty BOB.
is this thing on?
This is the longest I’ve been silent on my blog and probably not coincidentally, 2009 has been the worst year in my post-college running “career.”
I present some numbers:
2008:
Jan: 73.13 miles (8 months pregnant)
Feb: 58.50 miles (9 months pregnant)
Mar: 25 miles (gave birth middle of the month, took 2 wks off)
Apr: 60.33 miles
May: 86.53 miles
Jun: 60.75 miles
Jul: 87.44 miles
Aug: 113.43 miles
Sep: 76.84 miles
Oct: 104.88 miles
Nov: 69.23 miles
2009:
Jan: 22.76 miles
Feb: 3.51 miles
Mar: 11.30 miles
Apr: 18.09 miles
May: 36.58 miles
Jun: 24.38 miles
Jul: 37.42 miles
Aug: 24.24
Sep: 45.89 miles MTD
That’s really fucking depressing to look at.
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I’m out of NaBloPoMo. I meant to post yesterday but didn’t. I was smart and actually went for bed after Little Miss went to sleep last night so I actually got a full night’s sleep last night. I’m usually pretty dumb on the weekend and dick around on the internet after she goes to bed; Little Miss wakes up about the same time on weekends as weekdays so if I stay up late I don’t get as much sleep as I should.
Winter has arrived in Minnesota. We had enough snow to coat the grass yesterday morning, although it melted by yesterday afternoon. This morning, it was 30-something with a 20-something windchill and close to 30 MPH winds. I would have put off my longer run until tomorrow except that it’s supposed to be at least 10 degrees colder. I got in 9 miles this morning. I would’ve liked to get in 10, but I was just so tired with that wind. I hit 8 miles and turned into the wind full-on and it sucked so I decided 9 would be good enough.
It’s going to be a long 30 days if I don’t come up with some topics to post about. I skipped running this morning again after I was up too late last night. Unrelated, but they are talking about possible snow this weekend. We had a couple of unseasonably warm days (70 degrees) but a cold front came through today and dropped it down into the 40s. I’m not looking forward to winter, especially the part where I’ll have to get Little Miss in and out of the car when it’s below zero and/or snowing. A very nice benefit of her being on the small side is that I’ll still be able to use her infant car seat as a carrier so that I at least won’t have to deal with buckling/unbuckling her in the cold. I got a cover (not a BundleMe, those are not approved by car seat techs) for her seat to help keep her warm. It’s one of the funniest things, though, since only her head peeks out.
My sleeping in and not running streak, that is. I was pretty tired this morning, having stayed up past my bedtime to watch the election results, but I still managed to treadmill 3 miles. The treadmill is so boring …
I’m remembering why I didn’t like doing NaBloPoMo last year …. I don’t have much to say. I took Little Miss with me to vote this morning. We had to wait in line for maybe 20 minutes, but that wasn’t too bad. I passed another polling place on the way, and the line was not only out the door but people were lined up just to park.
Obligatory post for NaBloPoMo … no run this morning. I’d planned on treadmilling this morning but was too tired. I hoped I might be able to pull off getting out to daycare/work early so I could leave work early and run before picking up Little Miss but that didn’t happen. I’m going to end up with 4 days off in a row, because I won’t have time to run tomorrow morning since I want to go vote before going into work. Getting to my polling place is going to be a big pain. My site used to be awesome – I basically had two turns and it took less than 5 minutes to get there. But this year, the road the site is on is under construction, and I’m going to have to go the long way to get there which will take maybe 10-15 minutes. Pain in the butt.
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