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Wear and Tear

Happy hump day!!

The weather man was predicting 100% chance of rain on Tuesday and while I highly doubted it, I moved my easy run to Monday evening anyways.    Tuesday did dawn rainy and it poured for a bit but just a bit.   It was sunny and clear by early afternoon.   Boo.  We needed more rain than that.

Running on Mondays always feels harder than it should.   It’s probably all in my head but I feel like I put out more effort and get less back.   My mom wanted to walk so I headed to the river path to meet up with her.  I walked with her for most of the first mile before running on.  She had a meeting to get to so she was turning back early.  I wasn’t sure what I wanted to run yet.   It was also my third run in my new shoes.   4-7The run turned out to be a little too fast to be easy.   Oops!   I wasn’t paying much attention to my pace and took a couple of short walking breaks when I needed to.    I had just finished mile 3 and noticed someone about 1/4 mile ahead who looked like my mom.  Huh?  I thought she had turned around long ago.  Either I was moving faster than I thought or she had slowed down.    Turns out, it was a little bit of both.    She had done a ton of yard work that day and was feeling super sore.  I slowed and chatted with her a bit before running ahead to finish out 4 miles for the day.    The temp was dropping and my ears were freezing.  Had it not been for that I would have run more.  My ears are my weak spot, once they are a cold, I turn into a big baby.

As I stretched out, I noticed that my new shoes are already dirty.  What gives?!  They have less than 20 miles on them!  In other thoughts, how do I kick myself right there?

Do you see that spot?
Do you see that spot?   Not the best picture.

I think running a 25K and 2 half marathons in the last 65 days has caught up with my feet.  Oh and training for half marathon #3 of the year in 18 days added to that.    I think my one toe will never be the same.  It can’t decide if it wants to lose or keep a toenail, for now it has 2.    The same toe on the other foot is losing it’s nail per usual as well.  Yesterday I discovered a giant blister/ callus on my left heel.  How did I miss that?  I am trying to determine how much of it is from the consistent (for me) training and how much is from the new shoes.    Urrrgh.

I am so glad it’s Thursday. How has your week been?

How do your feet fare during training?

Weekend plans?

June Recap- Mid year Check In

In some ways June was awesome, in others not so much.   I started my #noexcusessummer plan on June 1st and stayed mostly committed.  I think I only took 5 rest days the whole month.  2 just happened to fall in the last week.   😦      I tried to not let the heat or my lack of sleep or even my stupid stomach get to me. I prevailed for the most part but this weekend kicked my butt.  I had a full weekend planned, work, 2 runs, a friend’s anniversary party, shopping, the movies plus the usual errands.  Saturday turned out to be a wash.  I got through work, completed my errands but soon realized that a run wasn’t likely.  I did the yoga dvd instead and it was not good.   It was all downhill from there and I did not make it to the party- horrible friend alert.  Shopping never happened either but I did make it to the movies (Transformers was awesome!) and was able to get in a sluggish 6 miles on Sunday at the gym.    I was feeling a little rough so I would run .9 miles at 6 and walk .1 at 4.  It worked pretty well for my stomach.

Monday, however was another story. After missing the planned 5 miles on Saturday, I wanted to follow through with the 5 I had planned for after work. It figures that the last day of June would be the day I felt the worst.   It was all I could do to make it through work.  I won’t lie I still thought about trying to run.   By 3:30, I knew it wasn’t going to happen but as added deterrent I received a text from my mother telling me to get over my ego and an email from NikeC telling me to rest. I get it, I get it!   So yesterday was a rest day.

What did my mother mean by my ego? I realized Friday that if I hit certain miles at each run over the weekend and Monday I would hit that impossible dream number that I never thought I’d hit in a month. But, as it was, I was 10 miles short, but still hit my highest mileage month yet-June recap

90.5!  What?! How did I do that!?

I had zero races in June but that was partially planned. I needed a break for a bit. I was feeling a little frustrated at how my last few races turned out.   I planned June to be a rebuilding month. Mission partway accomplished.   While I built a solid base of easy miles and some longer runs, I didn’t do any speed work. Waah waah. Hopefully July will involve some track time. Overall I feel like 84 of those 90 miles were solid miles. Even 2 weeks later, I still say that first 6 a few Fridays ago were just miserable. They were hot and ugly. Either way, I am still stoked about that number.

 

Month Miles
January 77.3
February 70.0
March 74.7
April 70.4
May 64.5
June 90.5
  447.4

So at the beginning of the year I set a few goals. While I have not met any of the speed goals, my mileage is pretty solid. I set a goal of 750 miles for the year. At the halfway point, I am more than halfway there! Woo hoo!!! Now to keep it going, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

How was your June?

How has your year gone?

What are you looking forward to in July?