Sunday the 14 I ran in the Fobare's Fruits' 5k Cancer walk/run (and I measured it and it was only 2.5 miles). Anyway, this year I gave my shirt to kellen, last year I gave it to Addison. It was freezing, and it was last year too. I finished in 1st place overall, woot woot!! I don't know how many people there were actaully serious runners or whatever but yep, I won!
In other news I've starting doing cross fit a couple times a week. And, I don't know what I did yesterday but we did 3 sets of 1/2 mile run, 15 overhead squats, 15 pull ups and now my right forearm and thumb are all tingly (like the "asleep" feeling you get sometimes). It's been like this for amost 24 hours, yep that's not normal. I'm not really sure what to do about it though. I really like it so far, I want to get stronger and I'm hoping the cross training will improve my speed and endurance with running. My next big running goal is an under 20 minute 5k which would be under 6.5 minute miles. I understand this is going to take some time, possibly a whole year, as that is shaving a minute per mile off my best 5k time.
Next weekend is our Ragnar Relay! Squee I'm so excited, I really hope it doesn't suck, haha!
2014 Miles: 753.49
Friday, September 19, 2014
Monday, September 1, 2014
Sept 1, 2014 Heuvelton Labor Day 4 Mile Fun Run, and The 18.12 Challenge
First things first, I definitely could not keep up with the 300 miles last month, once I missed one day it all went down hill. I did get 130 miles though, and I'll take it! I finished out my streak at about 36 days before I really needed a rest. I started having lots of tighness in the inside of my hips, towards my abs not towards the outside. So I took some easy weeks and kept running but taking days off and now I feel much better. I might shoot for 200 miles this month though, why not? :)
Heuvelton Labor Day 4 miles:
So this race is for part of our town's Labor Day festivities. My gps said it was 3.86 miles but I noticed that other people had less or more distance. Either way, I'm going to assume it was shy of 4 miles. Regardless, I finished in 29:35 and was the second female finisher (Jacqueline Danis finished in 27 mins and some change). I got a medal for 2nd Place female aged 20-40, yay! It was fun and I got to talk with lots of people and just have a good time.
The 18.12 Challege:
Yesterday I ran the 18.12 Challenge which is 18.12 miles, running from Watertown, NY to Sacketts Harbor, NY. The day did not look promising because of the weather but, we were all there ready to go anyway. I started with Nicole (2:58:23) and Craig Thornill (2:20:00) and Karen Mathews (2:42:45) and Kendra Moran (2:30:39)(sisters, and they are fast!). Away we went. I felt great all the way until mile 7 when I started to feel the blister on my right foot. It didn't hurt I could just tell it was there. I was pretty thirsty the whole time too, I didn't bring my own water and I was hungry but carried a bar and jelly beans, although, I only ate the beans (I couldn't open the bar because the wrapper was all wet from the rain). It rained off and on the whole race sometime sprinkling sometimes almost hailing the rain was so cold and hard. By mile 13 my blister hurt with every step, almost like I was getting poked by a needle every time I put my foot down. Still, that was my only issue. At mile 15 or so it started to downpour. My shoes were soaked through within seconds and suddenly felt like they weighed 10 pounds each. Nothing to do but keep going, I was aiming for under 3 hours. The last 3 miles were really painful and completely mental, they seemed to last for 30 minutes each. When I rounded the final corner and could see the finished the wind picked up and I was running straight into it and it was downpouring. The wind was so hard it felt like it was pushing me backward. I thought the clock said 2:59:38 and I thought to myself that I needed to sprint because if I fell over the 3 hour mark by seconds I would be so dissapointed (failing by 10 minutes would have been better really). I crossed to the finish and realized it was 2:54:39, YAY :) I feel so bad for the people who took an hour longer or more to finish, I can not imagine how wet and awful they felt, especially considering how awful I felt after only being soaked through my shoes for 3 miles. It took my shoes off right away and yeah, my blister sucks!! I got my medal and shirt, congratulated Nicole and Craig and then hopped in mom's car and came home.
August Miles: 130.28
2014 Miles: 735.96
Heuvelton Labor Day 4 miles:
So this race is for part of our town's Labor Day festivities. My gps said it was 3.86 miles but I noticed that other people had less or more distance. Either way, I'm going to assume it was shy of 4 miles. Regardless, I finished in 29:35 and was the second female finisher (Jacqueline Danis finished in 27 mins and some change). I got a medal for 2nd Place female aged 20-40, yay! It was fun and I got to talk with lots of people and just have a good time.
The 18.12 Challege:
Yesterday I ran the 18.12 Challenge which is 18.12 miles, running from Watertown, NY to Sacketts Harbor, NY. The day did not look promising because of the weather but, we were all there ready to go anyway. I started with Nicole (2:58:23) and Craig Thornill (2:20:00) and Karen Mathews (2:42:45) and Kendra Moran (2:30:39)(sisters, and they are fast!). Away we went. I felt great all the way until mile 7 when I started to feel the blister on my right foot. It didn't hurt I could just tell it was there. I was pretty thirsty the whole time too, I didn't bring my own water and I was hungry but carried a bar and jelly beans, although, I only ate the beans (I couldn't open the bar because the wrapper was all wet from the rain). It rained off and on the whole race sometime sprinkling sometimes almost hailing the rain was so cold and hard. By mile 13 my blister hurt with every step, almost like I was getting poked by a needle every time I put my foot down. Still, that was my only issue. At mile 15 or so it started to downpour. My shoes were soaked through within seconds and suddenly felt like they weighed 10 pounds each. Nothing to do but keep going, I was aiming for under 3 hours. The last 3 miles were really painful and completely mental, they seemed to last for 30 minutes each. When I rounded the final corner and could see the finished the wind picked up and I was running straight into it and it was downpouring. The wind was so hard it felt like it was pushing me backward. I thought the clock said 2:59:38 and I thought to myself that I needed to sprint because if I fell over the 3 hour mark by seconds I would be so dissapointed (failing by 10 minutes would have been better really). I crossed to the finish and realized it was 2:54:39, YAY :) I feel so bad for the people who took an hour longer or more to finish, I can not imagine how wet and awful they felt, especially considering how awful I felt after only being soaked through my shoes for 3 miles. It took my shoes off right away and yeah, my blister sucks!! I got my medal and shirt, congratulated Nicole and Craig and then hopped in mom's car and came home.
August Miles: 130.28
2014 Miles: 735.96
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