After completing the couch to 5K program, I've continued my maintenance of the distance.  I lost a few weeks where people were visiting and I didn't get out for a run.  As it turns out, it is hard to bounce back when you've taken some time off ( Read more... )

Now that I'm finished with the couch to 5K, I'm continuing to run 3 miles, 3 times a week.  I did download the 5 to 10K app, if I decide to increase my run time.  For now, I'm working on getting a little more distance and a little more speed.  I'm not planning on increasing much more any time soon.  I've switched from running Monday, Wednesday, ( Read more... )

So this marks the end of the Couch to 5K! Today, I ran for 30 minutes straight without stopping.  I actually ran a little further than that because I wanted to hit at least three miles ( Read more... )

This is the last week of Couch to 5K.  At the end of this week, I am supposed to be able to run for 30 minutes straight.  Today's run was 28 minutes with no walking.  I know that I was thinking of repeating week 7, with the 25 minute run, but when I hit 25 minutes, I felt like I could do the 28.  So I did it ( Read more... )

I'm not really sure what day I'm on.  Monday didn't really count, and then I skipped Wednesday because I worked 12 hours and didn't want to do anything other than drink beer and eat pizza when I got home.  So today, although supposedly week 7, day 3, was probably week 7, day 1.  I plan on repeating week 7 next week.  It is still a push to run 25 ( Read more... )

I should note that I never ran last week.  I ended up having a fever for three days.  Not a high fever, but one that was in the 99s and just enough to make you cold, sleepy, and make EVERYTHING ache.  When the fever finally let up, my nostrils shut down like Fort Knox and not a bit of air was going in or out of that thing.  Fortunately, I see to be ( Read more... )

I'm off to a bad start for week 7.  I ended up catching a cold at work this week (despite my habitual hand washing).  So, I'm all sniffly, sneezy, and grumpy.  This means that I can barely breathe as is and will not be attempting to jog today.  Hopefully I'll feel better by Wednesday!  Until then, soup and vitamin C are my friends ( Read more... )

Today I ran for 22 minutes!  A whole 22 minutes.  It was a busy morning with work and I had plans to go see Frozen at 1:30.  I couldn't do my run early in the day because I was waiting for Eric to get home and jog with me.  It was pretty good.  I wore his Garmin watch during the run so that we could watch the pacing and distance accurately.  We ( Read more... )

So I did today's run and I think I deserve a personal best medal for it.  It was so sunny and beautiful and then I looked up and saw the dark clouds rolling in.  It was going to rain again.  And we haven't just been getting light showers.  These clouds looked like the "run for cover, you'll get soaked in 5 minutes" kind of rain.  So I quickly threw ( Read more... )

After the snowstorm of the century (which is what I'm calling that snow nonsense) we have had rain pretty much every day.  This has caused some increasingly  concerning water level changes in the rivers here.  In the last week, the river has gone up 7 feet.  That is a crazy amount!  Fortunately, the weather service is predicting that we are at the ( Read more... )