I haven't been a very good blogger lately. I haven't been doing anything out of the ordinary or anything; I just haven't been keeping up on blogging! All of a sudden, my iPhone won't email pictures to me anymore and I have no idea why. That makes it harder to get the pictures I take on the phone to use on the blog.
I've run a few races, volunteered at a race, taken a couple of short trips, tamed a feral kitten, had some great runs and had some really bad runs.
A week ago Saturday, June 28, was one of the really bad ones. I ran eleven miles but after mile 7 it got tough. I walked a couple of times up hills. I was so upset. I don't know why it was so hard. The next day, Sunday, I only ran three miles but that was very difficult. I wasn't quite back to my car when I hit three miles and I just walked the rest of the way back; I never do that. Monday I tried to do a tempo run but that didn't quite go as planned. I ended up doing mile repeats. I made it two miles then had to stop and rest about a minute and then again at the third mile before running the fourth mile. I guess it's better than nothing! I wasn't looking forward to Friday which was the Hanover Firecracker 5 miler at all. I was very surprised that I ran good and never had to walk up any hills, and there are three big ones on this course! I came in at 44:20 which is an 8:52 pace. I even got third in my age group!! After the race I changed in my "changing room" in the backseat of my car behind the tinted windows and raced over to Grass Lake where the rest of the family was getting lined up for the parade with our vintage tractors. We pulled our church float with one of them and I walked along beside the float passing out invitations to the Vacation Bible School. I still had Garmie on so I reset her and started it again and I walked 1.84 miles in the parade!
My cousin who lives in Alaska was home visiting his parents (my Aunt and Uncle) so we had a get together there yesterday so I didn't go to long run group. My sister who lives in California was able to come and attend the party so I got to see her too! My sister-in- law and I talked about our plans to run the Vegas Half Marathon in November! She hasn't been running since we ran the Chicago Marathon but she's getting ready to start training again.
Today I was going to head to Chelsea to go for a run when I saw on Facebook that one of my running friends was running on my favorite route and posted a couple of pictures so I decided to drive 15 minutes more and run on my favorite trails!
Argo Pond was beautiful today with the sun shining on the water.
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| Argo Pond |
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| Do not enter |
There is also an old leftover sign from when the road was still a road. I love this sign:
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| sharp curve ahead |
I'm now training for my four half marathons this fall. I am training for my goal race which is the Women Run the D women's half in Detroit on Sept. 21. It's 11 weeks away now! I ordered a book called, "Run Less, Run Faster". I somewhat followed the first week of training but had to make some changes because of the 4th of July race. I also spent an entire day helping my very pregnant niece with some things she needs to do before the baby comes so I missed the speed work out that day.
I can hardly believe that the 4th of July has passed. After the 4th of July summers just seem to fly by. After the winter we had I want this summer to last a very long time.
Tomorrow is back to normal life. I have a corner piece of cake, too many pulled pork sliders, more cake, cookies, two oversized meals on the 4th, and ice cream twice to work off and recover from! It's always a fun weekend when the 4th falls on a Friday!
A big storm is brewing; what great timing, right when the holiday weekend is over and it's time to go to bed!
Runner Nerd
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