One month till Marathon!

Thursday, November 05, 2009

WOOHOO!

So today was a row and run day -- my rows have been soooo much lighter since I'm not racing and I'm in the boat with others who are not racing -- we just take it easy, do some drills, then row back no pressure. It's not as good of a workout, but it's just what the Dr. ordered at this point of marathon training -- a simple crosstraining workout that isn't so intense it detracts from my running.

Todays run .... I was proud of myself for accomlishing it as well as I did, let's just say that. I forgot my sunglasses AND my mp3 player!!!!!!! Today was a scheduled 7 miler, but I neglected to look at mapmyrun before I left so I ran what I knew was about a 6.55 mile run -- close enough. I averaged close to 12:30 min miles.

Then I went grocery shopping -- we needed it. I went a bit astray in the discount Halloween Candy and a bit astray with it when I got home - oops! But from now on only measured and accountable servings will be had. (Those candy corn hershey's kisses are....... amazing.) I brought with me to work some nice, whole foods. Hard boiled egg, baby carrots, apples, almonds, steel cut oats w/ vanilla whey protein powder (ok not so whole there) and cinnamon -- and I also have rice and tuna here as an alternative lunch meal or later snack. It's nice to be stocked up on the fruits and veggies again!

Then I watched ANTM and a Law and Order SVU instead of napping -- uh, I really should have taken a nap - it's hitting me now. BUT I did get to get ready for work nice and slow, blow dried my hair for the first time in AGES, plucked some unruly hairs, did my makeup for the first time in ages.. yeah. It's funny how I can get in a mode of doing doing doing and not do those simple things to take care of my appearance, ya know?

This weekend I do NOT have to work on Sunday NOR do I have to conduct music for church. Also since my run is shorter than it has been in 3 weeks, I will have a little more time on my long run day as well. Yay! So I'm looking forward to a recuperative weekend. 16 more runs before the marathon. :)

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Doing okie dokie.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Ran on lunch today - 4 miles, woot.

I gave myself permission to run faster on this run -- I wanted to make sure I beat the setting sun! :) And I was under 11 min miles, even including my 5 min walking warmup. WOOoOooo hoo. It's nice to know that I'm not just SLOW just cause I've been doing as my training plan told me and taking everything at an easy pace. I think it is good for me to push it every now and again even though I'm not officially doing any REAL speed work.

I've been running past the same homeless person for the past couple of weeks at least though on this route... I don't feel threatened, but it is kinda odd. I rarely come across a homeless person in this city -- anyway. He has apparently taken to camping out in the parking lot at one end of this trail I frequent. Should I call someone about him?? I think the first or second time I saw him was that time I ran in the rain not too long ago. It was the second time because the first time he was sleeping in his pile of stuff when I first ran past that area and when I came back he was getting up out of it and I was like OH! There is a person there! Then he was just standing with his umbrella the day it was raining.

Just not sure what to do about that, if anything.

Yesterday my stomach felt better after I ate my snack -- I had some oatmeal instead of my lighter planned snack. I'm pretty sure I was just underfueled, because I ran 7miles in the heat and had eaten less than normal for breakfast and forgot my Gu -- normally I'll do one for that distance.

So yay for that! (well, feeling better, not for being a dope and not eating enough)

I guess that's about it for now. Tomorrow is 11/5 - marathon 12/5. 17 more runs between now and the big day. :)

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Get it together, stomach!

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

My stupid stomach just feels... Wonky. I hate it.

It's not like I really feel SICK, I just don't feel RIGHT.

BLERGH.

But I DID have a really good 7miler before work. :) It was kinda HOT! actually. But good.

Looking at my calendar, I have 18 runs between now and the marathon.

Today we went and did the paperwork for our sublease -- we actually already have our keys and everything. :) I'm feeling SO happy that we've gotten that arranged and taken care of already. Now we just have to get the storage unit situation taken care of, and PACK.

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Good weekend!

Monday, November 02, 2009

Not so good in the food dept -- I didn't track but I don't think I went over cals by much, but I did very stupidly kind of eat them ALL AT THE SAME TIME. haha I was NOT following my eat every 2-3 hrs plan this weekend. :P But otherwise -- this weekend was great!

Halloween party - you saw some pictures from that! FUN.

Then I got up the next morning and did my long run -- and it went really well. I felt good -- I stopped to walk and drink/gu when I had planned to and not because I was dying. Ya know? I felt pretty strong coming into the end of it, even though I was really tired of running, I didn't feel like I was about to drop or anything. Ya know? I'm feeling sooooo confident about the rest of my training and feeling good feelings about the BIG EVENT itself as well. :)

Last week I walked BEFORE I started timing my run, so I was not including my walking warmup in my time (since it was not part of my distance in my route). ANYWAY -- this time I DID get to park where I wanted so I just started my timer when I started walking my warmup -- and I still finished 11 minutes FASTER than last week. FIFTEEN minutes faster if you take out my 4 min bathroom break near the beginning. :)

The weather was much WORSE (cold and wet!), but I felt stronger and I still did much better. I think my body was less wrecked this week and not to mention I had DONE this before and the training is really working to get me capable of doing these longer distances. WOOHOO! :D

So...... now I just have ONE really long run left before the marathon -- the big 2-0. This week is 13, then the 20, then 13...10... MARATHON. Today is Nov. 2 and the Marathon is Dec 5th!!! Some serious countdown action will be taking place once it gets within 30 days! :P

AND now some more pictures -- I wanted to ask my DH's permission before sharing his Halloween photos but he was SO FREAKING ADORABLE LOOKING. He was a steampunk engineer of some kind, he had more details to it than that, but that's the general idea. :) I drew the designs on the gloves (welder's gloves from Lowe's!) and made the copper thing on his arm. Also I encouraged the purchase of the fake glasses. ;) He doesn't need them in real life.





Hope everyone has a GREAT WEEK!

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ZOMBIE MARATHON

Saturday, October 31, 2009

BE FOREWARNED. There is scary fake gore and violence! :)















What happens when a vampire drinks a zombie's blood??

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