13 miles

6 miles / 53:53min

2 miles / cool down

so this morning I did 5 miles. This afternoon I did 6 miles and then did a 2 mile walk with a friend. So basically I did a 1/2 marathon today. Granted it was broken up a bit, but still. I am feeling pretty good about my sweat session today. My body feels healthy, happy and strong. Which is nice because those calf cramps were really cramping my style! Hopefully everyone was able to enjoy the amazing weather today! 34 Degrees! it was a heat wave! More snow on the way...hopefully they clear the sidewalks fast. I have more runs planned this weekend!

smoothies and more

5 miles / 38:30 TM

60 min. body pump

It is a beautiful winter day today. 30 degrees, sunny, little to no wind at all. So I skipped my post pump run and will be doing an outdoor run instead with Sirius. It will be more fun that way than pounding the belt at the gym.

After the gym I came home and made THE BEST SMOOTHIE EVER. I am obsessed lately with fruit and all things fruit related. I found the yoplait smoothie mixes a while ago and have really liked them. Well today I did a little add on to the yoplait mix. I put the strawberry banana one in the bullet with Almond vanilla silk (i have no idea if this is almond milk flavored with vanilla, or if it is soy milk and its almond and vanilla flavored or what but its delish!) so i blended that a bit and then added bourbon vanilla tera's whey protein poweder. DELISH. It tasted like strawberry ice cream. The vanilla protein powder just made it that much creamier. I highly recommend everyone try making this immediately! Yes, it's that good!!!

February's First

6.5 miles / 59min

The sidewalks were crappy for the majority of it. But I finally got my first February's run in. No complaints, or at least not too many! The sun was out, not too cold, few people out and about. Perfect run. I felt very connected to the world. Sirius and I were just breathing and the only sounds we could hear were our own breaths and our feet hitting and crunching in the snow. I wish I had my camera with me at a few different points. The sun shining on Mt. Mansfield and the snow glistening. It was truly amazing and made me so happy to be out there and so thankful that I can run.

I read a blog and she often talks about "this is why I run". I love to run, and have so many reasons why I love to run and why I want to run. However, today visually speaking I saw why I love to run. I was so at peace. I could have gone for another loop around however the dog was tired and I had to pee. Next time....But at least I got a good one in today! Hope you all had a great Thursday sweat session. I know M did (way to go on the 7.5!!!!!!)

Snowshoe

So I got out of work today at noon due to the snow. Which was so nice because that meant Alan and I could go snowshoeing with SWP together. We had a blast. It was so amazing. The fresh snow covering all the trees. No one out and about, just the two of us. Amazing. I enjoyed the afternoon so much just spending it with my boys. It made me forget that I haven't run, nor will I be running. Which is ok. Its ok to take a few days off and cross train or to do something else. It will just make me that much more appreciative when I go out tomorrow. Which I am definitely planning on doing.

Some pictures from our snowshoe trip...

Us

What I look like after Alan hits a tree covered in snow while I am standing under it.

Alan and Sirius posing

Sirius ready to go


Sirius after an hour and a half of snowshoeing. He is quite the snow mutt!

I hate seeing zero

So today is day two of February. Yesterday I took all my mileage off for the month of January in preparation to make room for february's month mileage. It has stayed at 0 for a solid 24 hours. BOO. I hate the number zero. I hate seeing zero for the month. I know its only the second day of february but I really am not enjoying it.

SO...stupid or not, I am going to run today. It will either be outside with SWP or inside at the gym around the corner from my house. I would love to be outside because I would love to see the stupid grin on wiki's face. However it will all depend on the plowing of the bike path.

I am at work right now, HOPING to be able to leave early. So hopefully I get to leave early, and hopefully the sidewalk plow has been out and I can have at least a little run so that I can stop seeing zero!

Also, mega shout out of congrats to Paula. She just texted me as I am typing this entry and said she ran 9 miles in 96 min. WHICH IS AMAZING for anyone, but amazing considering she just barely started running not that long ago. I convinced her to sign up for the marathon and be a relay partner for me so that we both would do 1/2 of it. She accepted and has really stepped up her game. I am so proud of you and all that you have accomplished this past year. Everyone go check out her blog ASAP. (I just figured out how to link a web address to a word. I rock. Alan are you proud of me? Tell me you're proud of me!)

Blog Giveaways

So I read Hungry Runner Girl and she mentioned this blog and its amazing give away (http://jessicakimmiller.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-first-giveaway.html). So obviously I went to check out the blog, and check out the give away. Plus I get a new blog that I get to follow and stalk. Once I catch up on a blog it gets boring. Nothing else to read. SO i love finding new blogs so I can back read. I am lame I know. so you should (both) totally go check out the blog and enter to win the give away!

Snow

So the snow will probably force me to take a needed break (why would my calves seize up and go on strike if not because I have been working them too hard?) I am disapointed about my break and hoping that the City of S.B will get their act together and continuously plow the bike path that I run along and the side walks that get me to said bikepath. However, I am doubtful that will happen just because of the dramatic amount of snow they are reporting that we are going to get. SO, more than likly I will be sipping on cocoa and staring out the window with the dog wishing we were outside running in the snow. Because if you guys (the two of you that are following me and my husband only because when he married me it was apart of our vows that he follows me on any blog that I might create and support me in all my bad decisions, which go hand in hand with blogging) didn't already know, he and I were born to run. (Shout out to Apod (sorry i know you hate it when I refer to you as apod, apizzle, adizzle or any other stupid name i come up with0 for buying me that book for xmas and on the card that came with the book it said, this is what you and puppy were born to do - I totally guessed what the present was as i shouted, BORN TO RUN)

*Sorry for my poor grammar. My parents are from W. Va and bad grammar, puncuation, spelling, run on sentences, the inability to create propper sentence structure and paragraphs I blame on them and the inbreeding.