Week 2 Day 5 Half Marathon training

I am taking a much needed rest day. Not because I am fatigued, but because I need to clean my house! We are talking dusting, vacuuming, washing floors, etc... I have also enjoyed having Thursday as a day off. It's like the calm before the weekend storm. I tend to really bust it out on the weekends.

This week has been a great running week, thus far. I have ran every single day, doing various mileage and work outs. I am scheduled to run 6 miles Sunday. I have a 4 mile race that morning and will run 2 additional miles once I finish. I am hoping the weather cooperates this year. I ran this same race in 2008 and it was -13 with the wind chill and the ground was covered in snow & ice. No matter what the weather is, I am very excited to get in my first race of the 2010 season!

Week 6 Day 5- Rest Day!!

Today is a rest day and I am using it! Chris and I are going to head to the driving range this evening. He is golfing in a scramble tomorrow so he wants to hit a bucket. And I want to join him. :-) That will be somewhat of a work out I suppose.

I ran 3.5 miles last night at the track. I also lifted for chest and lower body.

I am running 12 miles tomorrow and really looking forward to it! It will be the longest distance run I have made since I ran my half marathon in April.

Day 5, week 1

I missed my run last night. It happens. My son had his last regular season baseball game and they mercied the first place team. After the game, his team made a trip to get ice cream to celebrate. By the time I got home it was 7:30pm and I still had so much I had to get done around the house. So 40 push ups was the only form of exercise I got in yesterday.

Tonight I will be going to the gym for a 40 minute interval work out on the elliptical and will strenght train for back and shoulders. My training program has me running 6 miles tomorrow, but I have upped it to 8.5 miles. This will be an early morning, wet run! Tomorrow is playoffs for my son's little league baseball so I have to get up early to squeeze in my run.

Sunday I am supposed to cross train and fully intend on doing so. It won't be until later in the day that I am able to get my work out in. It's fathers day and my dad is competing in an X-terra duathlon about 1 hour from my house. I have to leave by 6:45am. I asked if I could bring my shoes to run the trail, but a) it's for race participants only and b) there is no way my dad will want to run it once the race is over. I also need to see my step dad on Sunday as well. So it will be a late afternoon Sunday trip to the gym for cross trianing and strength training for biceps & triceps.