Back in the Saddle...

That would be a more appropriate title if I were back to biking – thank goodness that pain is over. Biking was definitely not my thing. I may never to destine to do triathlons. I took two test runs this week and I’m feeling pretty good. I’m not allowed to run full out yet, but I’m steadily working my way back. On the first run I started with a nice 10 minute warm up and then ran ½ mile and alternated with ½ mile walk for 3 miles. On the second run I was up to a ¾ mile run and a ¼ mile walk after my warm up for 3 miles. This week my goal is to be running a full mile with no walking. Then I have to try to catch up with Tracy and her Kick Butt 12-minute miles!

Double Time!

Yesterday as I ran, I was smiling and thinking about my glory days of high school track. Then my mind wandered over to the fact that my birthday is this week. I decided to do a little practical math. You can imagine my shock when I realized that I am running a mile in double the time from when I was half my age. I had to laugh! Now follow my logic, when I was seventeen I ran two miles in a little over twelve minutes. Now at double that age I am running twelve minute single miles on a regular basis during training runs. Boy is that ever a kick in the butt to start moving a little faster. Right now, I am setting the goal of reaching ten minute miles for this next year. No more casual jog in the parks for me, after all this isn't supposed to be a cake walk! (Pun intended.)

Pretty in Pink...

I had good news today and had to celbrate with a little pedi! I think anyones toes look good in pink! I've been cleared to start walking for exercise up to 3 miles. When I can walk 3 miles without pain I can start adding back in 5 minute intervals of running. I'm very excited to be back on the road! The plan is to add a 1/2 mile each time I exercise in order to build slowly and not reinjure my leg. Then slowly add in the running. Unfortunately, this puts the 1/2 marathon I wanted to do at the end of September out of the plan. However, I will be able to run one later in the fall. I've promised myself I won't pick a race until I'm back to running 3 miles. We'll see if I can wait that long!

This Week's Work.

Holy Cow! This summer is absolutely flying by. I'm really finding myself less and less inclined to be inside on the Internet. I just want to be outside playing with the kids all day everyday. Our summers are so short and often so wet around here that I can't stand to waste a single minute.

In order to get my running in I've started setting my alarm to be up by 5:30am. This gives me enough time to get my workout finished before the kids are up. The other obvious bonus of starting early is beating the heat.

My current running week starts on Monday with a quick two mile run and one mile walk. On Tuesday and Thursday I make an effort to take the kids somewhere energetic and I call it cross-training. My mileage on Wednesday is a three mile run and one mile walk. For my final run on Friday I do four miles with the one mile walk. Saturdays and Sundays are spent enjoying the summer with my family.

Hopefully as things start to settle into fall the posts will once again become less sporadic. Until the time I'll keep logging the miles and planning my races!