Weekend update!

Thursday, September 24: Final training run for 5K.  I ran 3.5 miles in 43:26.  YAY ME!!!

Friday, September 25: We bowled.    Not Wii bowling, but actual bowling at the alley.  My scores:  105, 124 & 125.

Saturday, September 26:  Was the 5K race.  I mostly ran it in 36.28.02.  YAY ME!!!!  I did walk a tiny bit of it, maybe half a mile total?  It was a cool morning and I wore my bike shirt.    After the race, one of the women who was behind me came up to me to say that she liked my shirt.  It was good.  I did win a door prize for it being my first 5K ever.  I got a mug and one of my friends got socks.  She wanted a mug, so we switched. 

Training: resumed

I ended up taking not quite a week off.

Sunday September 14th:   I took the kids for a bike ride on the trail to a park .  the ride round trip was 11.53 miles.

Thursday, September 17th: I only did two loops at the park for 1.02 miles.  I didn’t want to push it, knowing I was going to running a bit longer with my sister Saturday afternoon.  Time was 11:36.

Saturday, September 19: We walked a mile to the bile trail, ran the bike trail (1 mile down and another mile back) and then we walked the mile back to her house.  total 4 miles.  We ran the whole way mile down.  My first straight mile running since high school!  LOL!!  We did walk a bit on the mile back .  It was the middle of the afternoon and I thought I hydrated enough, but alas, I did not.  the walk back to her house was about 2 minutes slower.

Monday, September 21: I ran most of a 5K today in preparation for Saturday.  I feel ready.  Since the race is in the morning, I feel that I’ll be able to run the whole race.  My time today was 39:45.  I did stop to walk for a few mintues so I could get a drink of water and twice to cross streets.  My goal Wednesday is to run and not to have to stop for a drink at the park. 

5K training, sidelined

After my run on Wednesday, my right heel was hurting a little bit.  Not much, but enough.  I had a day of rest Thursday and went back at it Friday.  Friday after my run, it was hurting enough to side line training until I can figure out how to make it not hurt.

Monday, I’m going back to the shoe store to see if it’s the shoes and figure out how I’m running.  I know I’m not running normal.  When I walk, I tend to walk on the outside of my foot.  I think I extend this to running, but I’m not sure.

WiR: September 7

Monday, September 7th: Labor day.  We went to the park and Baby Girl rode her bike on the loop (half a mile).   That evening, the kids rode their bikes and I walked while hubby mowed the lawn.  Total walking mileage:  1.35 miles.

Tuesday, September 8th: Back to training.  Ran the loop at the park.  2.04 miles in 22 minutes 20 seconds.

Wednesday, September 9th: Same Loop, 2.04 miles in 23:13.

Friday, September 11th: Training again.  2.04 miles in 24 minutes.

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My favorite biking shirt

I got this shirt when I was visiting some friends at the beginning of August.  I’ve finally posted the photo for Deb.

Rest of the week: Aug 26th

Wednesday, August 26th: I rode up to Meijer to pick up some iron drops & chewable Vitamin C’s for Little Man.  A sever iron deficiency.  That was 3.45 miles.

Thursday, August 27th: Wii Fit 10 minute Free run.  I “ran” 1.123 miles.  I also did Advanced Step.  The sound was off so it was throwing me off!  My total score was an all time low.  Perfect: 160;  OK:  175;   Miss: 1;  Total: 495.  I’m so ashamed!

Friday, August 28th: We went to a Cubs game!  We walked a quarter of a mile from where we parked our car to the CTA train station.  Then we walked not quite a third of a mile from the stop to catch the bus to Wrigley.  We left before the game was over and since there wasn’t a bus, we decided to start walking part of the way back to the station.  It’s a three mile ride, but we walked not quite two thirds of a mile and then we walked the quarter mile back to the car.  All in all we walked 1.41 miles.  It was good.

Monday, August 31: My first training run.  I was supposed to walk for 1 minute and jog for 4 minutes for a total of 20 minutes.  I couldn’t finish it.  I ended up walking/jogging for 1.5 miles and I did it in 17 minutes 41 seconds, so I was three minutes shy of the total.  Wednesday, I’ll take it back to 1 minute walk to 3 minutes jogging and see how it goes.

Tuesday, September 1: The family all went to SF Park.  Hubby was playing softball so the kids and I walked over for mini golf.  It is about a quarter mile each way, so we walked a half mile.

Wednesday, September 2: My 2nd 5K training jog.  I scaled it back to walk 1 minute and jog 3 minutes.  At the end of 20 minutes I still had  less than a quarter of a lap to go, so I finished it out.  Two miles total in 23 minutes.

Thursday, September 3: I had a dentist appointment and then I rode over to the bank to pay my property taxes.  Total miles:  3.35.

Friday, September 4: Total bike ride of 2.919 and an ok jog of about 2 miles.  It was okay.  Not good, but not horrible.  The two miles was done in 27 minutes.