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December 2010

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Member Since:

Feb 11, 2010

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Half Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Just starting to run and not confident yet! The highlights of my running career include running 5 miles through the hills of west salem. ha. 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Excited to actually finish a race this year! First a 1/2 marathon then H2C!

CDA1/2 Marathon without dying.  

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep in shape, healthy.  Use running/excercise as a form of thearapy and way to clear my head.  It always puts me in a better mood no matter what! 

Personal:

Happily married with a doggie, Frank and a cat Phoebe.  Human children in the future, God willing! 

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Nike Bowerman Series Lifetime Miles: 474.23
Under Armour Lifetime Miles: 346.08
New Brooks Lifetime Miles: 468.59
VFF Lifetime Miles: 55.96
Brooks Pure Flow Lifetime Miles: 66.00
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52.00
New Brooks Miles: 52.00
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6.00

Nice run outside.  I slacked sooo bad this week!! Horrible.   But, it was sooo nice to sit in the hot tub with our best friends! Yay for the hot tub!! It was the best purchase ever! Merry Christmas Jordan! 

New Brooks Miles: 6.00
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5.00

Ran outside before work... still no garmin :( Just guessing by my usual loops I do in the neighborhood and by time.

New Brooks Miles: 5.00
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4.00

Ran outside before work!! Woo hooo!

New Brooks Miles: 4.00
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6.00

Okay, so this run was supposed to happen yesterday! But, drank wayy too much at Jordan's company christmas party on Friday night so running yesterday am was out of the question! I had such high aspirations Friday night to run from our house to Dallas where we left our car (because we couldnt drive home) which would be 9.3 miles, a long/perfect run. Ha! Get Real. I could barely get out of bed yesterday. Ugh. 

So today I did do a new loop.  Instead of going down the hill through west salem I went up and down to HWY 22 towards the coast.  It was a nice change of scenery. Ran for 59 minutes... so probably a little more than 6 miles.  

New Brooks Miles: 6.00
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1.00

My goal was to do at least 3 on the TM but because I feel like crap with a sore throat only did one.  Slacker.

New Brooks Miles: 1.00
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5.00

Took the great advice that Nicole gave and downloaded the GPS app for my phone. :) So yes, I know I ran 5, I just didnt time it. Oh, well.  After next week I really need to get back to being more disciplined!! I feel like such a slacker lately, not to mention I've gained a legitimate 5 lbs.  Ugh. I cant wait to have my Garmin back!

New Brooks Miles: 5.00
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6.00

It was so nasty out this morning, raining like crazy and very windy.  I ran 3.5 on the TM and saw that it had cleared up a bit so I thought I'd better finish out side and let Frank stretch his legs too. I put on a long sleeved tshirt and headed out in my shorts.  Burrrrrrrrr!! It immediately began raining again! I managed 2.5 out side and came back soaked and cold. I cannot wait for my garmin to be back! I'm afraid to see what my splits will be when I finally can track it again... 11:30, 10:30, 11:00 haha. Oh, well I WILL get back into it more consistently after Christmas. :) 

Now off to ID for an entire week for Christmas vacation! Very excited to be home, just wish Jordan could join me. :(  He will be there on Thursday in time for Christmas Eve/Christmas! 

New Brooks Miles: 6.00
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6.00

Went to the gym with my mom and ran on the TM.  Kept  a pretty good pace the whole time started out at a 9:31 pace, ran 2 miles at this and then sped up about 10 seconds every mile after that.  Felt good to stretch my legs and look out at the snow covered parking lot! :)

We were going to go to spinning but my mom forgot her shoes so we had to drive back home and get them, missing the spinning class. Just as well, had a good run. Tomorrow maybe pilates. Now off to finish Christmas shopping.  Buying stocking stuffers, the best part. :)

New Brooks Miles: 6.00
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4.00

New Brooks Miles: 4.00
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4.00

New Brooks Miles: 4.00
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5.00

Finally, finally managed to get my butt outta bed this am and run before work.. Husband is back!  I always get paranoid of running in the dark when he is gone.  How would anyone know if I was kidnapped if he wasnt there?!? Dumb, so I need to do better about running on the TM, but then I feel so guilty about Frank.  I guess 1 person (me) getting a run in is better than none. NEXT WEEK= 4 days of running!

New Brooks Miles: 5.00
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52.00
New Brooks Miles: 52.00
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