You are right, Jo! It is one of those lessons I must relearn time and again.

Today I ran a 5k race in 29:07! My goal was less than 30 minutes, so I am happy. Then I ran 10 hill repeats this afternoon and that is hard for me to gauge the distance on.....I'll just call it rounding my 5K up to 4 miles.

So 169.5.

That's awesome Midwife! It's one of my goals to someday be able to run a 5K in less than 30 minutes. I'm hoping that increasing my distance so much will help with the shorter races.

I did 8 hilly miles on Thursday and 16 miles today. The end of the 16 miles hurt a little, but I'm starting to feel a little better already. Everyone else is complaining the weather is getting too cold in Iowa already but I'm happy to get some good running weather!

+ 2 miles this morning.

Xmas challenge miles: 292.51.... 207.49 to go!


I'm headed off to Maine this morning, be back in about a week. I'm taking my Garmin so I'll be able to track my runs while there, yay! See ya'll in about a week.

4 miles tonight so I'm up to 284.04. I can't believe I'm this close to the 300 mark!

You're doing great with your mileage, Jenguin!

I've kind of resigned myself to not hitting 500 miles by Christmas, but I think it is interesting to just track my mileage.

3.5 today so 173!

Hi chicks!!
I am going to get back to counting again. Having looked over the calendar I will conservatively guesstimate that I have done an additional 45 miles since 8/7/08.

So I'll now count myself at 263/500. And I plan on at the very least keeping record on my mobile phone even if I'm nowhere near a computer

Some of the motivating factors in my fitness have very much been record keeping and miles challenges. And I really do intend on completing 500 by Xmas. I want to be able to make that claim!!!!

+9=293.04

Tough Run last night. It was weird because it started out a lot hotter than I thought it felt before moving and then midway through the run it got really windy. By the time I was done the weather felt like it was the perfect time to start!

Midwife - You never know - you might get really close to 500. I think that it's great to have a motivator to get yourself out there, even if 500 isn't the magic number. It's part of the reason I sign up for races - I know I'll be in trouble if I don't get some training in!

269/500

Midwife, I tried to visualize being a gazelle today... I did actually pick up my feet a bit!

176.


Thanks for your support guys. I was anything BUT a gazelle today but I got my miles done.

277/500

3 treadmill miles on Friday and 18.34 windy outdoor miles today, bringing me up to 314.38.

yowza! rock and roll jenquin!

Yay, I'm back!

+ 20.64 running miles over the past week:

Xmas challenge miles: 313.15.... 186.85 to go!

yay! you're back!

+4=180!!! Welcome back, Jo!