Weekly Miles And Counting Calories

I haven't posted in a while. Seems my life has been so busy for the last little while. It feels with my running and me counting calories takes all my focus.

A little on counting calories. I started to count 3 weeks ago and I have learned a lot! The first week I counted I saw that I ate NO WHERE NEAR where I need to be. The second week was the best week! I ate the right amount and felt great! My runs were awesome and even my long run felt easier! This third week I've learned how hard it is to count calories. What have I learned overall? Overall it's very important for me to count and record my DAILY intake. My first week I realized I was only eating 1000-1500 calories a day. I need 2300. This last week has been hard because of hormones. It seems when those come in, I don't want to eat, anything! Just not hungry. Needless to say, my runs were CRAP this week. Times weren't too bad but the way I felt this week compared to last week when my calories were right now was way worse. I had no energy. I'm going to try harder to eat more this week. When I have high calorie meals it's easier. This week it just felt I was snacking all day. 100 calories here, 100 there. Instead of 400 breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I'm having fun learning about my body. Not only do I function better with more calories, DUH, but I like faster paces on runs. Talking with my training partner, she likes to go slow and steady. But to me, that gets boring. Anyone else like that? I like to run faster, it seems to not hurt my knees/shins as much and it gets done faster. We had a pace run on Thursday of 6 miles. After a quick 30 second stretch at 3 miles we bumped up our speed, on the treadmill, from 8'12 minutes a mile to 8 minutes per mile. I felt soo much better. We ended up finishing the last mile at about a 7'50 pace. It. Felt. Great! I like the speed. I come from a family that has a lot of speed runners. Both my older brothers, my sister and myself all were speedy. So for me to go slow and steady gets boring. I like the adrenaline that comes with speed. Granted, some days are slower than others, depending on how my body feels. But I feel most comfortable going quicker.

Anyway, on to the weekly miles

Monday - 3 miles 26 minutes
Tuesday- 6 miles 56minutes
Wednesday - 3 miles 26minutes
Thursday - 6 miles @pace 48 minutes
Friday off
Saturday 8 miles - 1hr 17 minutes
Sunday - cross train
Total Miles 26 miles

Like I said before, kind of a crappy week. It was hotter this week. It'll be the same next week. I get nervous sometimes thinking we are training hard enough. Training is meant to be hard and to push ourselves, right? I really want to qualify for Boston. Maybe I'm just getting ahead of myself. Ugh. The drama! That's life I suppose. Trying to keep positive and hoping for a better week next week!