2nd worst half marathon ever!

Ok, so I'm updating the blog as per Nicster's request.

So I had a pretty good Sporting Life 10K run, considering I'm not in the best shape I've been in, and I still managed to do break 55 minutes by over a minute and a half. I did hurt for 2 days from it, but it was well worth it. I felt so good after that run. Then I went to NY, and did not run at all over the week.

On Sunday I ran the Mississauga Half. It was horrible. I had stomach cramps the entire run. And my back was hurting me. I had to walk so much it was depressing. And it was my second worst time ever. I've run 13 of them. After I finish this race, I always walk back about half a km or more to cheer people on and wait for my sister, to run the last bit with her.....I found her, she had just as bad a run as I did (except she never trains at all for these), and then I couldn't even run back with her! That's how bad of a day I had! To make me feel worse, one of the girls I always run with broke 2 hours. I used to run faster than her. Except she's just been so consistent with her training over the last year or so...I haven't.

My legs were killing me yesterday, and I think I made it worse by playing baseball last night - running around the bases, so they're hurting a little more today.

So here's my goal. I need to shake off the bad vibes from my run on Sunday and get back into it! This summer is going to be the summer of running. I'm going to get back into consistent training runs....and maybe cut back on the booze!

J.

I Did It! - cj runs her first 10K!

and I can't wait to do anotehr.

Although I did not hit my goal of running it in under 60 min (I clocked in at 66 min and 2 sec), I have the bug!

Ran solo all the way, and was very over-whlemed at the amount of people!

What an awesome event!

Muscles still hurting today...but totally, totally worth it!

Yeah me!

cj

One more week till taper for Nicola!!

Monday May 5th -- Day sixty-seven
I did a slight jog this morning and was so sore that I had to suck it up for a short cold bath afterwards. I don't care if it's theoretical, I think it helped! In the evening, did a 55min run with BW.
Km : 19

Tuesday May 6th -- Day sixty-eight

Aaah nice easy morning with some sit-ups for kicks. I had a brutal work day (I swear I almost lost it!!) and wasn't coping well with all the demands that keep being put on me. BUT as soon as I got home, I headed out at 6pm and ran for 90 minutes and hit as many trails as I could. That made my day MUCH better!!

Km : 21

Wednesday May 7th -- Day sixty-nine

No morning run. Grumpy run from yesterday has followed me today. After work I trekked up to Nmkt for track practice. 7k w' up, 4x200 (35-37, faster this time). 800(2:44), 1.2k(4:04), 600 (1:56), 1k (3:24), 1.6k (5:33), 1k (3:23). 4k c'down. Felt ok but wish I was faster. I must be nervous already with all this negative energy.

Km : 18

Thursday May 8th -- Day seventy

Easy 12km

Km : 12

Friday May 9th -- Day seventy-one

Met Brooks peeps for 10+k at marathon pace. Only did half of it, got all uptight and tense about work to do that day and other crap, etc, etc, etc! Shake it off. Pull yourself together Nic! 5.4k @ 3.39/k pace.

Km : 15

Saturday May 10th -- Day seventy-two

Run with SR and BSD for a social outing. 57min

Km : 13

Sunday May 11th -- Day seventy-three

Total procrastination day. I babysat my niece and nephew in the morning, then instead of running Oakville, I hung out with my bro for the afternoon. Finally I left my house at 4pm with the intention of doing at least a semi-long run. Well, things perked up and I clocked 2:22! Yay me!!! Taper starts tomorrow. I hope my moods co-operate!

Km : 33

Week total

Km : 131

First Full Work Week

Okay, so I haven't been blogging as often as I should. I thought I would have dropped totally off, but it seems I've been able to run a fair bit. Let's see if I can re-cap:
Monday - 40 mins in the evening - I went fast too - felt awesome and just pretty much tempoed the whole way.
Tuesday - 55 mins in the a.m. - had to run to a bank downtown to sign a paper, so ran there and home the long way (up to the Danforth).
Wednesday - felt super tired after work and my shift with Hugsy, but Tanis (my sister) has signed up for a 5 KM corporate challenge with work, so I went to the Riverdale track with her to run a 2 mile tempo. It totally perked me up and gave me energy, although it was only a 4 mile total effort for me.
Thusday (today) I've taken off 'cause of work/home duties, but I'm working from home tomorrow so plan on running in the a.m. - stay tuned...

CJ update - back in the game

After a couple weeks of life being totally off the rocker, running seemed to have went astray.

However, after a good pep talk from friends and angels....I think I am geared back up the the sportingl like 10K.

Ran 4 miles on Tuesday, and 4 miles today (Thursday)...and feel awesome!

Planning to do a small run on Friday and then break of Sat.

In case any of you see a strange puff of smoke on yonge street early sunday mornin'....yeah, that'll be me kickin ass in my first 10K!

Thanks for all the support ladies!
cj