05/14: Day 1 AGAIN! Ran 3 miles
05/15: Day 2 Ran (with a few walking breaks) 3.27 miles. Swam .5 miles. 45 min spin class
05/16: Day 3 Ran 1 mile. Walked 1.5 miles. Swam .58 miles
05/17: Day 4 Ran 1.79 miles, then ran/walked an additional 1.25 miles.
05/20: Day 1 AGAIN: Ran 3 miles, Swam .5 miles
Wow.. Have I seriously not posted in over a week? I cannot believe just how busy I have been. I ended up falling off the running every day wagon again LAST Sunday. It was just so crazy. My niece was over on Saturday night. We ended up eating at a Chinese Buffet and then going to Chuck E Cheese. We went grocery shopping and then went out for ice cream with the neighbors. After dinner, I tried to get some homework done while Sean and Eva watched a movie. I knew that I had two papers due by Sunday @ 11:59 pm, on top of my other homework for the week. To say that I was stressing out would be an understatement. By the time that Eva went to bed, I was trying to finish my philosophy paper. I was having a hard time understanding the concepts, so I ended up giving up and going to bed at 2 am.
As Sunday was Mother's Day, we made a plan to meet at 9 am at the Friendly's in my mother's town for breakfast. Sean and I live about an hour from there. So I ended up getting about 5 hours of sleep that night. After breakfast, we headed home, where I stayed to work on my papers a little and Sean headed over to his mom's house to start on the yard work with his siblings. I worked on my paper for a few hours and then headed over. Although I did not end up running on this day, I ended up getting a pretty good workout in. They were almost done the yard work, but still needed to spread the mulch. I ended up shoveling 3 yards of mulch into the wheelbarrow. Boy was I sore the next day. We had dinner and then celebrated Mike's 25th birthday! We ended up leaving at 9, as I still had to finish my homework and Sean needed to catch an early flight the next day.
Speaking of my papers -- I am so annoyed. I worked really hard on my Philosophy paper - seriously, the hardest I have EVER worked on a paper for school. I had Mike proof it (he's an English teacher) and I felt really confident with how I did. I ended up getting an 87 on it.. Seriously? Now I know that an 87 is NOT by any means a bad grade, I just typically do a lot better. I am currently earning an A- average. I really want to pull that up to an A by the end of the semester. Since I earned my Associate's degree and transferred for my Bachelor's degree, I have not earned less than a 4.0 in any course that I have taken.. I do NOT want to break that streak now.. What disappointed me the most was that she said that it was an excellent paper and very well written, but that I missed a concept that she wanted us to get out of the philosophical readings. UGH so frustrating!
Anyways, back to running. I was supposed to meet up with Tonya last Monday am to run, but I ended up cancelling. I stayed up until midnight the night before doing homework, then I had to get up at 3:45 to take Sean to the airport, and I did not fall back asleep easily when I got home.. So now here I was.. starting the challenge over AGAIN. I was disappointed, but not really - because I missed two days, and rest days are good - I just want to be able to complete this personal challenge.. So I started over again on Tuesday.
Tuesday I ran with Danielle. We ran the entire 3 miles and it felt amazing. We ended up running the last mile at an 11:23 minute per mile pace - which is the fastest that I've run in a long while. I like the route that we run because it's not very hilly, which I'm sure is why we ran the 11:23. Wednesday I ran with Vicki before work, and we ran some trails around a local park. Running here is nice, but in a different way. It's a trail so it's easier on my body, but it's pretty hilly -- which sucks because I'm not great with hills, but then again it's good, because I'm not great with hills. Thursday morning I ran with Danielle and Deb (same route as Tuesday) and I just felt miserable. My legs felt like led and for some reason I could not mentally push myself through it. I forced myself to run a very slow mile, and then we walked the second mile back. Friday I ended up doing a run/walk with 4 of the women from MRTT running group.
I ended up falling off track again this weekend. I keep jam packing my weekend and not leaving enough time or energy to get any activity in. Although I didn't get any exercise in, I did some prep work for my 5k this coming weekend. I ended up meeting up with Kelly and some of the members of her team, "Girls Gone Color Wild". We decorated some t.shirts.
This was my shirt before I smudged some of the paint.. whoops! At least I can take comfort knowing that I'm going to be blasted with color. I also made something else...
A TUTU!
I was surprised at just how easy this was to make. A little time consuming, but definitely easy and something I'm sure I will do in future fun races.
Today I met up with Tonya and two of her friends. We ran a local bike path. We ran the most of the 3 miles that we did today. We also averaged a quicker pace as well. So excited to make improvements! Speaking of improvement - I went swimming with Dave again tonight. We did half a mile. I was excited because I did a few full laps, and my last two laps I did back to back as well. I can't wait to keep making improvements, and eventually swim the entire thing without stopping!
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