Hurry up and wait

My boss sent me a text late yesterday that I needed to seek him out this morning to talk about some stuff. I had planned to do seven miles this morning until I got that message. Instead, I just did one lap of Sugarhouse Park and got back as quickly as I could. Boss-man didn't get in for another hour. I totally could have done the extra lap. Oh well. It was cold and a bit foggy and I was the ONLY person in the park. I don't know why more people don't take advantage of this park in the winter. It's beautiful; there are ducks and geese; it's easy to access. Maybe it's the hills - hardly anyone actually likes to do hills.
Stats: 5.5 miles in 59:17 for a 10:47mpm pace

patchy ice and snow

Weight class wasn't as hard this morning. Granted, I was six minutes late and missed a few squats, but I wasn't dying by the end of the class. It was still good, don't get me wrong! Afterwards, I took off for a quick solo run in up to Liberty and back (without a lap in the park). I had to carefully cross several patches of ice on the sidewalks and roads, but I still managed to have a good pace.
Stats: 3.5 miles in 36:53 for a 10:33mpm pace

yakkity, yakkity, yak!

Oh, this was a good run. At about mile 4.5, I think that we slowed down a bit, but not too much and not for too long. I blame the narrower-than-usual road for the slow-down NOT the fact that I ate three cookies and a few chocolates yesterday. The roads, definitely. We had a good time talking about everything today - it's always fun to catch up from the weekend. We talked about kids (ours and other people's), child neglect, finances, budgets, recipes, health, snow. You know, nothing in particular, and it made the time fly by.
Stats: 6.5 miles in 1:10:02 for a 10:47mpm pace

there's a chance my arms might fall off

It was cold today (25*), but my upper body was too tired to pull up my long pants after weight class, so I just wore my shorts. I didn't even care. All I could think of was how hard it was to just hold my damn arms up at waist level! Our lifting instructor either hates us or really wants us to have rockin' upper bodies. Even though we call her Luci (short for Lucifer), I'm going to be generous and assume the latter. Thankfully, our run was short. I couldn't have held my arms up for another minute!
Stats: 3.1 miles in 34:01 for a 10:59mpm pace

back to it

This was a nice run. Unfortunately, I was on my own while Carol nursed a raging headache. It was a quick run after yoga class. Yoga, by the way, was wonderful. The first down-dog was miserable since I hadn't done one for two weeks, but after that, it was so nice to be stretching and concentrating and posing. I am, however, tired of being the fattest person in the class. Not so cool.
Stats: 3 miles in 32:06 for a 10:42mpm pace

Banking

I shouldn't have been so pooped after yesterday's 7-miler, but I am. OK - it's not really yesterday's run that is to blame - it's the two weeks of sitting on my ass.... Carol is determined that if I'm going to get THAT close to 1000 for two years (909.8 in 2011 and 921.5 in 2010) that she is not going to let me miss it again. She even has her hubby in on it! So, she has us banking miles already, and for her persistence I am grateful. She pushes and encourages me (in a nice way). We are taking on a second weight lifting class each week now, so it will be even more important for me to get my running miles in. I'm going to have to run on the weekends and stop being so lazy. Hmmm... Does it sound like a broken record in here? (Off topic: how many people actually know what that phrase means? How many of us are out there that actually had a broken record? Funny...)
Stats: 7 miles in 1:16:48 for a 10:59mpm pace

1st run of the year

Yes, I missed my goal of 1000 miles for 2011. I had 909.8, so I was basically 90 miles off. I totally could have done this by just adding two extra 5-milers in each month. Stupid to miss the goal. This year, my goal is 100+ miles/month which will give me 1200+ by December 31. That's just 25 miles/week. I gotta get off my lazy ass. So, after being lazy for the past two weeks, Carol and I decided to start banking miles early in the year and went a bit longer today than we normally would. We were slowing towards the end, but I'm glad that we did it. (Plus, it was an extra 200 calories burned, and I really needed that after pigging out for the last couple of weeks!)
Stats: 7.26 miles in 1:21:27 for an 11:14mpm pace