7:00 A.M. comes WAY to early

Ok so I have recommitted myself to Tempur-Pedic on a ridiculous level, and I'm up till 1 A.M. every night doing computer work. So when I plug that alarm clock up for 7 A.M. I'm too tired to even think about it. But once it hits, I'm dying. So I got up this morning, got all my new gear on - and just went. And it wasn't too bad. Running in the cold fucking sucks, but I'm going to have to get used to it. The diet thing has been on and off - it's easy to eat bad and overeat when you're taking clients out all the time. But I did my three again on a pretty hilly path, and I'm going to follow it up with another 3 tomorrow morning. A rest day on Friday like always, cross training at the gym on Saturday, then Sunday comes big: 5 already. I think I had only gotten to 6 when I was really into this before Tempur, so it should be pretty difficult but that's what I get. Those big runs are what it'll really take to get prepared. I've been drinking mad water lately, and it just makes me feel like.... I have to piss all the time. But between this and working about 12 hours a day, I'm feeling pretty good. Legs are a little sore, they probably should be a little more with time, but that'll come as I speed up with time.

NOM NOM NOM

I'm so proud! Definitely thought I had lost you for good this time, but so excited that you're back!
I've been running strong now for the past two weeks, pretty much every day if not every other; always at least 4 times a week and never less than 3 miles. Might not sound like much, but from where I started...the fact that I have not keeled over is in and of itself an accomplishment=)

I'm not sure if this has been brought up before or not but mapmyrun.com is the game I play either before or after each run. Just type in your city and form your own route to the distance of your choice or head out for a run, go until you can go anymore, try to remember where you went, then come home and map it out to find out how far you actually went. I prefer the latter of the two as I always run much further than I would have thought=)
Another fun game...make an hour long play list, or as in my case, a couple=) It's fun because an hour of music is really only about 16 or 17 songs which seem like nothing when you're running. Also, I can usually do about 6 miles in the hour which is a good distance too!

Ok ok I'll stop rambling! Glad to have you back!

Pkeeeeeeew!

Re-Start

Ok so we fell off the wagon. Definitely understandable considering the craziness, but not excusable. Everyone is busy, it's just making the time to do it. I have readjusted my schedule now to accomodate restart, but definitely jumping right in with 5 on Sunday and climbing from there. It's going to be incredibly tough, and I am definitely going to be taking care of injuries and icing down every day to fix up the shock.

So after working until about 2 AM, I forced myself up at 7:30 in order to be able to run before I head off to work. I got out, started my walking warm up, and started freezing. I ALMOST talked myself into going home and going shopping and then running later, but I manned up, layered up, and went out for my 3 miler. It really wasn't too bad, it's pretty hilly out here, but I took it easy enough. It was great to get out again, and trust me I need it.

I will be in Lansing the day and night of the 10th and the day of the 11th so we'll have to meet up. Keep on rockin.

PS: Been keeping up with Lost?

I haven't ran since Thursday.
Tonight, I'm going for somewhere between 6 and 8 miles and then I'll report back!

ok so I know I haven't been doing the best either, but I got this thing back up and running so you better get back on! I run a lot...probably 4 times a week and each time at least 4 miles....it's fun, I like it, I'm not fast, but I do it and I guess that's all that really matters.

I'm going to get a new battery for my ipod transmitter so I can start back up on this marathon workout....whoo!

Weekend plans? haha I better be seeing you soon, guy, it's been too too long!

So I decided that when I go for my shorter runs that I will go i-podless...completely without my tunes. However, my 4 mile night JOG turned into one badass workout with my sprinting away from every little noise I heard in the bushes at about 5 minute intervals. LOL It looks like I can either break the rules and jam while I run or I can follow the rules and psych myself out to the point of exhaustion.....

4.2 miles
41:2

10 miles

Finally....I've been working hard to get here and it's finally showing in mileage because I can honestly say that I wasn't certain I'd ever hit the 10 mile mark. Too bad that's still 16.2 miles short of where I need to be!
10 miles...just under 2 hours.
Stopped once at a crosswalk for about 2 minutes because of heavy traffic and turned off the tunes about 4 miles in. (been trying to run more with less music to get a feel for it.

If you're still out there hope you're doing well and that being in the "real world" hasn't been too scary=)