Running During The School Year

This week I discovered something very important: If I make time to run, I will run. Even though there is no kind of tired like first week of school teacher tired, and even though I was still adjusting to the 5 am wake-up time, I made it happen.


I ran on Tuesday and Thursday evening, Tuesday partly on the track and partly on the treadmill, and Thursday on the treadmill. Thursday, I did 48 minutes at a solid 3 minute run, 1 minute walk the entire time. 3.5 miles. Saturday, I dragged my butt to Turner for the last hill workout. Can I get an amen??

8 hills, 70 minutes, and I made it back to the track in time to do the core exercises with the group.

This week's goals: run on Monday and Wednesday on the treadmill, take the kids to the track to walk on Tuesday and Thursday. Friday, I see a margarita in my future, but just one, because running again on Saturday. I also ordered a Nathan Trail Mix 2-bottle belt, which should be here before Saturday.

Also: charity update, I have now raised $150 of my $350 goal for Bel Inizio! Only $200 to go!

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  1. CarrieSeptember 4, 2015 at 7:54 PM

    How did your plan for running this week work out? Will you be doing the long run on Saturday morning? I will - I MUCH prefer the long easy runs to the hills and speedwork. Good job!!

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