Long time no....

Sorry to my followers for the lag in posts!!

It has been a hectic couple of weeks around my house. In fact it still is so this post will be a little shorter! With the end of school for my kids and myself it has been CRAZY!!!! Projects, end of year activities, a son who is playing "catch up" in high school, AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

But here it is....we were supposed to run 22 miles this week and we made it but we had to put in some extra effort!!

With everything that has been going on I FINALLY got my husband to start running mornings, YAY!! It has been great!! We didn't start running mornings though until Wednesday. He gave in because we had trouble getting runs in in the evening so our first run this week wasn't until Wednesday.

Wednesday we decided to run 5 miles since we had a couple of days off and got it done at a pretty good pace...I think about 9.54??...not sure though I would have to look at my garmin data.

Thursday we went out for 4 miles and finished in 38:43, our best time yet!!

Friday we put in 2 miles in the afternoon just to get something in before the weekend at the same pace as last run.

This is the finale.....Ready...since we didn't do what we wanted to by this point we decided to lengthen our Sunday run to 12 miles. We figured we were ready, yeah the 10 wasn't "easy" but we realized that it wasn't as bad as we thought. No long run is "easy". I had found this great new trail and we were "dying" to try it out so Sunday morning off we went.

The trail goes on for 7.5 miles in one direction before you have to turn around and head back so we went...7.5 miles and turned around...and ran, and ran until we hit 12 and realized "well, we have to at least walk back from this point so lets keep going and try and do a half marathon distance" so we did!! In 2:11:54 we finished 13.1 miles!! We walked the other 2ish miles back to the car and thought "WOW, we just ran a half marathon!!!!"

As I said, no long run is "easy" but this seemed to be a good run for us. Neither one of us was fatigued too much and (outside of our legs feeling a little weak) no pain!!

So there it is...we managed 24.1 miles overall and ended up with a good week!!

Today, Tuesday we ran 4 this morning and felt pretty good. Our pace was a little off (41:49 for 4) but I'm not going to complain!!

I think this Sunday we are going to go back a little (don't want to overdo it) and maybe do 10 before going back up again.

Until next time...We will keep running toward our goal!!