Weekly Miles

This week was awesome. One week down 17 to go til my first marathon! I love being in training mode. I'm a mental person and being in training helps me stay focused and excited. I ran a total of 26 miles.

Monday - 3 miles 27 minutes
Tuesday - 5 miles 45 minutes
Wednesday - 3 miles 26 minutes
Thursday off
Friday - 5 miles  40 minutes @race pace
Saturday - 10 miles 1hr 40minutes
Sunday off

I feel really good about this week. Miles were faster this week than they had been before training started. With that being said, I feel accomplished. I'm not so nervous about the marathon anymore.  My 10 mile run was one of my best. I've ran 3, 10 milers and 1, 13 miler. I always felt dead at mile 8. Knees throbbed, lower back killed, toes were achy. But this 10 mile run I felt great. Even after the run I wasn't hurting like usual. I think it's because I've started doing an ab workout. After 4 days of consistently doing it I feel stronger. And it proved so in my run. I'm excited for all that I'm learning and all that I will accomplish.

Something else I started this week was calorie counting. Monday I only ate 1500 calories but I'm supposed to eat around 2300-2600. By the end of the week I was reaching my daily goal calories and I felt really good. Most weeks I'm tired and low on energy but I know now thats because of poor nutrition.  I'm having a lot of fun researching foods and making sure I get enough calories. (funny how mental it was. Before "training" I disliked eating and counting calories, but now it's more real and because there is a big purpose behind it all, it's actually enjoyable.

This week is the same as last week for miles, except on Saturdays run, it'll be 11 miles and we won't have a pace run. (A pace run is where we run at the pace we will in the marathon. We are training to hopefully qualify for Boston. Need to run the St George Marathon in 3hrs 35min average pace is 8'10 a mile for 26.2 miles. I'm excited!!)

I say this a lot but I'm very motivated and very excited for this. Finally after many years of struggling to find something that brings me joy and helps me emotionally, I've found a love for running. It's been 8 months since I first started running. 8 months ago I couldn't run a mile! I've come so far and so excited to see where I can go in my life.