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January 7, 2007
Another 40+ mile week
Friday, when my husband got home from work, I complained that I was going to have to put a lot of miles in over the weekend, since I was behind in my mileage. He offered to push Ryan in the jogging stroller, so we could get a quick 3 miles in before it got completely dark, so we changed quickly and did that. Yesterday morning I met my girls for our long run. Only 1 girl showed up, I am assuming because it was cold, raining and still part of their Christmas break. I am glad the 1 girl showed up, since I was not feeling very motivated to run by myself in the rain without music for 10 miles. I was nervous about how I would feel for the first 2/3 of the run, but I ended up doing fine, although being glad not to run any faster than we did. The trail we were running on was flooded out at several points, which made for some amusing climbing and finding side routes along the way. I still feel like I should be able to run 10 miles and not even feel it, but at least I can run that far consistantly again. I ended up spending 2 hours walking with Ryan strapped to me later in the day, between wanting to go hiking (after the rain cleared up) and Ryan being fussy in the evening. I am glad I only need to get about 5 miles in today, because not only are my legs sore from yesterday, but I am exhausted because Ryan was up 3 times in the night and did not want to go back to sleep. I am heading out the door to run as soon as he wakes up and I feed him. That will give me 41 miles for the week and a 10 mile long run. Next week I am going to start adding in strides after some of my runs to start getting use to speed again. I would like to hit the track once or twice before my next race in early February, just to have some idea what pace to run the race at.
Posted by Ann at January 7, 2007 10:47 AM