Goodness!
The last few weeks have flown by so quickly. Full of final
exams and the stomach bug and a Turkey focused holiday!
I must have started and stopped this entry a dozen times.
Here I am, ready to finish it and get some updates going.
First, the half marathon. Wow. I can’t believe that was
almost a month ago! The race day was beautiful, the crowds were absolutely
amazing, and I ran with some of the best girls around.
The week before the half I was in a bit of a panic, had to
take two trips to the doctor for knee pain and then for dizzy spells. Luckily
everything was okay and I was cleared to race.
The course was awesome and I’d like to run it again. We ran
through center city Philadelphia, through Fairmount Park, and University City.
The only pain was the hill in the park between miles 9 and 10. That definitely
took a lot out of me.
Throughout my entire race prep I had thought I had my race
nutrition down and that I would be good to go. Before and during the race
everything was going fine, but after. Oh, after. That was not as planned. My
body was pretty freaked out by what it had just done, I guess, but I couldn’t
keep any food down for most of the day (and a few days after). I got lucky
though, my appetite was back and voracious in time for Thanksgiving dinner J
In a spurt of what may have been insanity, I also signed up
for a 5k Thanksgiving morning in my hometown. It was MUCH colder than it had
been 4 days earlier at the half, but I was ready. I had just run 13 miles, what
was another 3? I forgot that there was not 1 but 3 good sized inclines on this
course and I was regretting my decision to run about half way through, but I
pushed on. I was focused on getting as close to 30 mins or less as I could!
That was my biggest goal. I had run (“walked”) that 5k my junior year of high
school in 39 minutes so running it in under 30mins 10 years later was my
dream. My clock time was 30:36, which
was not quite under, but it was 20 seconds faster than my last 5k, so it was
still a personal best! Plus my dad and boyfriend were at the start/finish line
cheering me on, and my mom was at the halfway/turnaround! It was a really great
day!
Since then I have not been running any great distances, just
a few miles here and there. Plus with the stomach bug last week I wasn’t working out at
all!
I’m back on the spin train, hitting class as many times a
week as I can. I have my last weigh-in with Carly tomorrow before the Holidays.
I’m hoping for in the 180’s! It would be a holiday miracle! I’ll be spending
the holidays partly in Michigan with my boyfriend and his family, so I’m
working on some workouts to take with me, plus they have a wonderful dog that I
can take on nice long walks!
I’ll try and update again soon, thanks for taking the time
to stop by!
