Races for 2013
B Race: March 2, 2013 - Honey Wagon 1/2 Marathon (goal to see where I am at hopefully a 1:35)
For A Race: March 4, 2013 - 3 month focus plan begins
A+ Race: April 15, 2013 - BOSTON with Mom woohoo!
A Race: May 26, 2013 - Run for Water 1/2 Marathon - sub 1:30 or bust
Other Races:
Scotiabank 1/2 June 23, 2013
Seawheeze Lulu 1/2 August 11, 2013
There may be more, there may be less but the focus goal for this year is a sub 1:30 1/2. It's a BIG goal for me. I AM GOING AFTER IT! Going to make IT Happen. I want New York.
Motivational pic - I need THAT pace for my A RACE - only 7 more miles;)
This week I started back to running more. The last 6 weeks I had been running less than 1 time per week and saw/felt my body get out of shape. That was the plan though. I have a standard 8 mile go-to run which is 8 miles and the last few weeks by mile 5 it felt like I had ran a fast 10k. In December I felt like I needed some sort of challenge, but with no pressure, so I decided to do as many "workouts" as I could in December. The plan was always to take Christmas off, so the most would be 30 in 31. I made it for 29 in 31. The workouts were only 1hr of cardio (no more, no less) and whatever I felt like doing that day. I liked the challenge. In the summer I really want to do the 30 runs in 30 days.
This week I started tracking my workouts again and adding core and weights back in. The first couple weeks of January I also made a deal with myself that I can only do 4 runs per week. I am ready to run, but don't want to get injured. In addition to that, nothing fast through Janaury. I don't know if it's because of age or years of pounding on my body, but if I'm even 5 pounds over race weight (which is definitley where I am at now), I get injured doing speed work. I LOVE running, so there will be NO speed work right now. Slow and steady to the goal this year.
Happy New Year - make YOUR Dreams HAPPEN!
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