Okay, so I obviously haven't kept my promise with blog posting. I wanted to post once a week, but...um...well yeah that hasn't happened! Between work, running, and rehearsals for "Fat Girlfriend: The Musical" I haven't really had time to blog. But here I am sitting at home ALONE on a Friday night and now I have time!
Again....not too much new to report on the running front. Yes, the runs are getting somewhat longer. This week I was supposed to do 19 miles. Well....so far I've done 6.5! Whoops! But I will do my long run of 7 miles on Sunday so hopefully I can get back on track next week. (Did I say that last time? Oh God.)
But I'm not too worried yet...I still have a few weeks before the Lincoln 1/2. YES I KNOW I need to kick it into high gear, but I will, I will....I swear.
Okay, so last weekend Kim and David came to Omaha for a visit! I LOVE them and I miss them SO MUCH! So Kim and I are running the Chicago Marathon together, so we planned to do our long run together last Sunday. I should also mention that last weekend was also my good friend Beth's surprise bridal shower--and our other good friend Laura Stevenson (sorry Laura! You will always be Laura Stevenson to me! ) came into town for the shower! Laura is a hard core runner too (aren't we all?!) and we tried to convince her to run with us on Sunday, but she made some excuse about not being able to keep up...WHATEVER Laura--even though she is training for a race herself...any-whooo....
So Stacey came over on Sunday morning and we ran about 5 miles and it was great! Earlier in the week I tried to map out a flat route since Kim has the luxury of NO HILLS in Houston. For anyone not from or familiar with Omaha--a surprising fact: Omaha=HILLS. Seriously.
So I said that I "tried" to find a flat route...but the truth is, where I live you will come across a hill eventually--you either have to start with one or end with one. I won't lie...we sort of had to do both. But for a girl who swears she can't run hills, Kim rocked it! AND she tried to tell me that she couldn't run and talk at the same time too...well...I just couldn't let that one go! We made her talk a LOT! Stacey and I talk the ENTIRE time we run and it makes the runs go waaay faster. So Kim if you still don't want to talk by the time the marathon rolls around then just be warned: you are going to get REALLY sick of my voice for 5 hours and 26.2 miles! :)
But seriously, we all did great and of course after it was over we pigged out on breakfast casserole and blueberry muffins. TOTALLY WORTH IT.
Here is a picture of the three of us before our run--Stacey and Kim weren't too happy that we took this, but at least we didn't take one AFTER the run! Check out Kim's cute pink jacket--LOVE it! I've also posted a picture of my high school friends--Laura is the tall beautiful gal next to me in pink!
So this week my goal is to follow my training plan exactly, which should be interesting....but that is the goal...its good to have goals...right?
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