I ran 76.5 miles (not counting active recovery miles) in February.  I’m pretty happy with this amount, considering it contains two step-back weeks in training and the beginning of my taper.  I do wish I had lost more weight, but ehhh oh well.  Not every month is a good month. I lost just 2.4 lbs over the past 30 days.  Of course, I ate like crap all last week.  I know why I didn’t lose that much…

2/29/16 – 3 Mile Maintenance Run

I only ran 5k tonight.  My legs were feeling extremely tired when I got up and I struggled though mile 2.  My 1st and 3rd miles were great though. I went ahead and walked another mile after I finished up my run.  This was supposed to be a 4 mile run tonight, and I wanted to at least cover the distance even if I was walking. I think what I’m taking away from this run is that it is going to be very…

2/27/16 – 10.5 Mile Long Run

I tried to run 12-14 miles tonight.  I really did.  But I got a later start because I was exhausted, and it got dark, and I was very cold in my wet sweaty jacket in the wind.  I called it at 10.5 after my pace started to suffer and I began to worry I would trip even with my headlamp. I’m glad I called it, based on the state of the chafing on my back.  When I sweat heavily, I don’t know that…

2/26/13 – Rest Day

It is cold and windy today.  I think I’m making a new rule–no long runs if there are over 30mph winds.  Especially not when tomorrow is going to be 15 degrees warmer with only 10mph winds. If I don’t do my long run on Friday I have a bad habit of not doing it at all because my weekend work schedule is so crazy.  This isn’t an option for this one, since it’s the longest run of training (13-15…

2/25/16 – 5 Mile Tempo Run

I had a really good tempo run today.  2 warmup miles, 2 hard miles, and 1 cooldown mile.  Given my PRs earlier this week, I decided to push myself a little harder and see what happened, and it was one of the best decisions I had ever made. My warmup miles were 13’51” and 13’39”, and then I did the fast miles without looking at my watch (I have a bad habit of checking my pace every 15 seconds).…

I saw @mybigfatfitlife‘s BINGO board thanks to @alexinrunnerland and thought it was so cool I had to do one myself.  And if I can clear the board maybe I can justify signing up for running camp to myself!

I’m giving myself until April 17 to clear the board.