Getting Better

I've learned a lot these past few weeks about stretching my IT band and it has helped so much. Last week, I got in 49 miles and even ran a 15 miler on Sunday and felt great! Gosh, I'm so happy to be able to run longer distances again. I have lots of plans this year for running and I would be so bummed if I had to stick to 5K's or 10K's for races.

2011 New Year, New problems

Well, my year hasn't started out great. I'm having IT band problems, but thanks to a free "Ask the Expert" at FootZone, I was able to get some help. So, I started stretching out my gluts and it has helped a lot. Now, I have to everyday in order to keep my knee from hurting. But I did get in 26 miles last week, and my pace was pretty good too. Let's hope I can get a good control of this for the year!!

1,500 miles for the year!

Well, I did it!! I got to 1,500 miles by Christmas. My goal was to get to 1,000, but I reached that in October, So I decided to make a new goal of 1,500 miles. I knew it was going to be tough to reach, since I only ran 1,000 miles in 9 and a half months. How can I ran 500 more in 2 and a half? And with all the snow we been having, I thought I wasn't going to make it. But I pushed myself hard to get there and now I did it. I feel pretty happy to reach such a big goal for myself.
Now, my goal for 2011? 2,000 miles!!!
Now for some well deserved rest to get ready for next year!!!

December Run

I hit the 1400 mile mark on 12/09!! And as of today (12/13) I have only 83 miles to hit 1500 for the year!! AWESOME!! Looking forward to having the last week of the year off to rest my bones!

November Run

It's been another great month of running! I achieved a couple things. First, I was able to add on to my already year record miles, I went over 1,300 miles for the year!! Dang! I never thought I would run that much! Also, this week I ran another 50+ miles and continued my streak of 50+ to 5 weeks and it's been 11 weeks straight of running 40 or more miles!! This had to be the most challenging week of running I've had! With snow and ice on the ground and low temps. Tuesday morning it was 13 degrees. Brr!
The last 3 month I have been able to run 538 miles!!
3 more weeks on running and then I'm giving my body a well deserved week off!

Did it, Done!

Finished my goal of running 10 or more miles for 30 runs straight! So far, it's been a year of goals. The beginning of the year, I ran 30 days straight, then ran my first 1/2 marathon under 2 hrs-ran a 1:53, and then I wanted to run 1,000 miles this year, so far I'm up to 1,286 miles!! And now this!! Feeling Good!!!

Still doing 10+ miles

Well, I have been able to continue my streak of running 10+ miles to 27 days now. I'm shooting for 30 runs straight of 10+ miles. Also, I'm looking forward to the last week of the year, because I plan to take that week off to give my bod a well deserved rest.
We'll see if I can last a week of no running. If I can run 50 miles a week for the next 5 weeks, I will end the year with close to 1,500 miles! WOW!! That would be awesome!