Weekly Miles

Last week was AWESOME! I was eating between 2700-3000 calories a day and I. Felt. Amazing! Here's the count for the week.

Monday - 3 miles 27 minutes
Tuesday - 6 miles 1hr - IT. WAS. HOT!
Wednesday - 3 miles - 29 minutes
Thursday - off
Friday - 6 miles @pace - 49 minutes
Saturday - 13 MILES! 2hrs 2 minutes
Sunday - 3 mile bike ride (crosstrain)


My 13 mile run...amazing! I felt so incredible while running. 13 miles is the most I've run, and I've ran it twice now. This run was soooo much better than the first time. Even with all the hills. I was able to run 10 minutes faster too. After the first 8 miles I felt my knees hurting but also had the feeling to run faster. I'm very excited for the next few weeks. I'm feeling stronger already and can't wait to see what I can do. I totally think qualifying for Boston is possible. I'm becoming addicted to the long runs. They make me mentally feel happy! Maybe it's the fact of how many miles I actually ran! 


Last week was also a new weekly record! I ran 31 miles!! That's the most I've ran so far! And I only started running a short 9 months ago now! I can't believe how far I've come and how fast I've gotten here. I'm very grateful for playing sports growing up. I think that's help me a ton to push myself but not push too hard to where I'm dead. I'm grateful for the coaches I had that helped me become mentally tough. I can't believe that just 9 months ago, I could not run a mile. I sit and reflect on how physically and mentally hard it was for me to run that mile. And now I'm running 13 miles with ease! I swear the 13 miles now are so much easier than that 1 mile was 9 months ago! Crazy, I know!

My awesome husband bought me a GPS watch this week. It records distance, time, and pace. (It does a whole lot more but I like those the best :) Calories is another I like. Anyway, I'm in love with it! It's called a Garmin Forerunner 205. It's an older model. The new ones are $300+ and don't really see a huge difference. All I need is something to track my distance and be accurate! My IPOD was always off! And then to be able to see my pace I'm currently going will help with training so much! I'm very excited!