Under My Shoe!!

Only 2.51 miles to go to complete 40 miles for the month of April!! Then guess what? Saturday, the first of May starts the 40 mile ticker all over again. The board wipes clean and it's back to mile zero. This will also mean that four months out of 12 have 40+ miles completed and under my "shoe."

Tomorrow morning I have a 3.40 mile run scheduled. Unless something weird happens then I should be good to go. I will have completed 40.89 miles for April. Wooo Whooo!!

In May I'm going to incorporate more cross-training in my schedule. As my long weekend runs increase then I need less mileage for my weekday runs. I will only run Tuesdays and Thursdays and add only one Monday which is Memorial Day with a 4 mile run.

Running & Thinking

Only 8.42 miles to go for April!

I am so impressed with my running. I ran 5.63 miles yesterday. That's the longest distance I have ever run in my life. In. My. Life. I mean, in MY LIFE! And today I'm not sore at all. At the end I was running out of steam but that could also be because my brain knew it was the end. I had entered in my Nike+ sensor 4.20 miles.

As I was running and thinking, I counted up what my weekend mileage goal was supposed to be. I had scheduled 3.10 miles for Saturday and 2.50 miles for Sunday for a total of 5.60 miles. Since I didn't run Saturday (chalk that up to staying out too late Friday but I didn't have any flat tires) I would go into the week behind if I didn't run the total of 5.60 miles yesterday. Then I would run the risk of not making the 40 miles for the month. I didn't have much choice but to run the whole 5.60 miles in one long run. But it felt great! I'm so glad I ran it.

I ate a couple of GU Chomps. One at the 1 mile mark and another at the 4 mile mark. Those little chewy guys gave me lots of energy. I'm sure that's what helped me to sustain the mileage. I'll try those again my next long run. Heck, I might even eat one tomorrow morning at 5:45am before my 40 minute speed run.

That's the way I like it!

14.05 miles to go for April! Five more scheduled runs to go in April!

What a great run yesterday morning. I was in my stride as soon as the running began (after a 3 1/2 minute warm up walk). The 40 minutes did really seem to "fly by." I only walked three times during the 40 minutes.

I listened to a podrunner podcast at 177 bpm titled "Portable Epic" from DJ Steve Boyett. This podcast has great drums and the beat really quiets the monkey mind. Actually all of DJ Steve's podrunner podcasts are great.

I was hoping this would be my last treadmill run for the week but since we got rain last night and more is on the way today and tomorrow, I'll have to tough it out a couple more runs. The gravel roads will be too muddy to run on. Unless I want to grow several inches taller.

I might go into town and run around the park track. It all depends on the rain.

Inside or Out

Only 17.48 miles to go!

Yesterday's run was a hills run for 40 minutes and 3.52 miles. Last month I purchased a DVD called Runtervals. This is a treadmill run using the incline for hill work. I can't quite keep up with their speed on the inclines but I had a good work out. I was out of breath and sweating.

This morning's run was an easy run for only 30 minutes and 2.51 miles. This run was sandwiched in between two 40 minute runs. Slowly but surely I'm making up the miles from getting behind the last two weekends. Let's hope I stay on schedule. There are only six more scheduled runs for this month.

This week I'm running in the morning so that means I'm on the treadmill since it's still very dark when I get going. Last week I ran to the "bottom" so I was on the trails, roads and hills.

This time of year I really love running on the farm. The birds are out and singing. Everything is green and leafed out. The cows are grazing. When the baby calves see me running, they jump up and run off with their tales straight in the air. I laugh every time. They are so cute. I always keep an eye on the mother cow. You never know when she will feel her baby is threatened and come after me.

10 Days Remaining in April

One of my goals for this year is to run 40 miles every month. So far the first three months have gone great. January's total was 40.60 miles. Yeah! February's total was 40.36 miles. Yeah again! And then March's total was 41.57 miles. Whoop!

For the month of April as of the 20th, I have completed 20.01 miles. I'm only 19.99 miles away and I have seven days scheduled to run. I sure hope I don't flounder.

These isn't any room to listen to my monkey mind telling me it's okay to skip a day. Nope! Since I listened to that monkey mind the last two weekends and didn't run, I am behind coming into this week.

It's good to have a little pressure.