so another week bites the dust and I am a happy camper…. I got to spend time with two of my besties…. So my running buddy that is like WAY faster than me when running… took off from Gaswell road…I left on the rout that I shared with you just a while ago… I got to the bottom of the FIRST BIG hill and wouldn’t you know it I see her smilen face a comin my way….. “Hey speed demon…” I said…. and she ran with me back with me till we got close to the rodeo grounds… than she sais I am gonna…. Yes hun go ahead I know I am slow. go for it!

she did tell me how good I was doing and that she was proud and all that wonderful stuff. it is great to have someone with you for a while. But I understand that she is so much faster…. I was ALMOST There… and I got the coolest text from my swim coach. she is out of town visiting her son and she sais… ” I know this will sound silly but I miss you!!!! and you know what it isnt cause I miss her lots too. I am eager for her to come home.

so let me see… what did my week look like.
Monday swim with coach for 2900yards
tuesday 4 mile run and than Dr. visit
wednesday 8 mile run and than work. : )
thrusday 4 mile run than float in the water for 700 yards and talking
Friday 2700 yards nice hard kicking workout… coach would be proud!
Saturday 16 miles…. it was a nice morning… no rain in sight lots of sun. almost to the over heating stage.t han at the end a drizzle of rain. it was wonderful. so I am looking forward to this next week at work. it will be wonderful….

and even beter is the thought that I am

miles 210 +3 out of 435 in 11 weeks only another 225 more to go in 7 weeks!

Posted: August 7th, 2010 under Marathon training, Running.
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is finnished. I did NOT RUN my miles on Saturday. it was so windy and cold and I knew that i was going to be in the hot pool everyday. so I decided that I would just coach….t hat would be my cross train for the day. : ) and this morning I was out the door before 6am… ran 13.7 miles. : ) in 2:28.52! Rather slow if you ask me. but that is only because I know that if I am chasing someone I can go faster. : ) I proved that last weekend. : )

So it was a great training run for me … I stayed in my normal time range… and I came back in one piece. that is all that matters. so this week my m iles ended up being a little different.

miles 178 +3 out of 435 in 9 weeks

I am pleased to tell you that my KIDS ROCKED THE SWIM MEET!!!!!!!!

they both SMASHED thier times. I mean SMASHED them. D~fly took off anywere form 5-12 seconds per race. and that is BIG FOR HIM!!!! He got out on his 100 free. “COACH… they messed up… THERE IS NO WAY I swam that in 1:24. I laughed so so so hard and said… yeah you DID! and we are both so proud of you!

My T~ fly tried a lot of NEW things… 100 back 200 IM 200 FREE..s o those were all NT. But the 50 free he broke his time in by a little over a second. and that is amazing! just so you know. He is now about 1 second away from beating his mother in her FASTEST 50 free sprint EVER!…..

well ont his happy most wonderful note… I need to get into the pool. these kids are catching me fast. Than again. NAP FIRST …t han pool!

Night all
Marathon training momma Fly out

Posted: July 25th, 2010 under Family, Kids, Marathon training, Running, Swimming.
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Is coming to a close… and I am wondering why am I doing this again. LOL. I know why though. the kids have a BIG swim meet tomorrow… and that means that because I am helping coach I need to be there at 0830 in the morning. so what do you think that means for me and my 0830 time to be on deck… yup you guessed it those 13 miles that I swaped out with last saturday to only do 10… now I HAVE TO DO THEM THIS SATURDAY…. and that means i have to get up early… on the one day I get to sleep in. if 0800 is a sleep in. LOL… I will handle it. it will mean that Sunday I get to sleep in.

so I will write again tomorrow about how wonderful the kids did. but for now it is still my marathon training blog. Not the kid blog…. So here is the training this week and how it went

After that long nice race on Saturday the 17th. my legs were… well needing to be rested. so on Monday all I did was swim. Untill my friend called that night and invited me on a walk so we went out and it ended up being 5.22 miles. I know it was a walk. But I am COUNTING IT! Than on Tuesday it was 3 miles and swimming 2200 yards. than Wednesday 7 mile run and a 2300 swim. than Thursday it was 4miles and a nice easy 2100 and Friday NO RUN and a 1700 yard swim… than I coached the littles than I taught a swim class than I worked. : ) I love my job.

Some days are a little more stressfull than others. But all in all… I am so happy I changed my profession. It was the best decision I have ever made.

so I will run my 13 miles tomorrow morning. I allready have everything ready so ALL I have to do is get out of bed. LOL… that will be the big hard thing to do. LOL… we shall see how it works. : )

marathon traning momma fly… OUT!
miles 177 +2 out of 435 in 9 weeks

Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Marathon training, Running.
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Has come to a close with a bang… and for that I am happ.

I was able to do a bit of a tapper this week as I knew that I had a race Saturday. I still got my miles in I just did them differently. and did you realy think I wouldnt be in the pool. LOL so here is the week in a nut shell than I will tell you more.
Monday swim/kick 2000yrds
Tuesday run 3 miles swim/kick 2400yrds
wednesday run 6 miles swim/kick 2200yrds
Thursday run 2.22 miles swim/kick 1750yrds walk 3 miles
Friday swim/kick 2500yrds
SATURDAY RACE DAY!!!!!!!!!! 10 miles official time 1:34:44 WAHOO!

so my week was going well. we are tappering in the pool so I havent been as tired from that as well. and the wonderful fact that my arm hurts still so We are doing ALOT OF KICKING it is nice to not be up in the 6,000yrd range : ) so this week was easier on my legs for that fact. I didnt bike at all because of the race. and than on Thursday. tell you the trueth I thought I had only done 1 mile by the time Igot that bloody nose… : )

It was funny I was a beating on the door and a beating ont he door… as blood was running all down my face. stupid nose and lack of vitamin! K. Von willibrands has a funny way of showing up in my life. So no one came to the door. ( more than likely dad was trying to get some clothing on) I decided. welp we are going to use the water outside to start washing it off…. (Mind you this is my perception of it all) the door did not make anyone move it was the water running outside that got attention…. HEE HEE… so make sure you wash all that off before you come in. I had to have looked like a bloody deer in the headlights when momma opened the door and I looked up and said…. “I have a bwoody nose momma” LOL…

So in I went and kinda got babied…. I mean I got a ride back into work. : ) and I got to steal a towel… which I am still trying to get the stupid blood out of. shesh blood is a rough thing! and momma and I got to chitter. we dont get to do that too often. and best. I GOT HER CLORIEN TAKER OUTER SHAMPOO!!!!!! now that is worth the bloody nose. hee hee…. I laughed all day told everyone it was the look of make sure ALL that is off you before you come in the house. lol… and than a friend said… no she was just trying to make sure there were no suitcases behind you. she is just scared youa re trying to move back in. we had a realy good laugh about all the fun. and coach DID let me swim after my nose had stopped for 20 min. YEAH!

so latter that day I went out for my weekly walk with my friend. and it was wonderful. two dogs pullin….. my girlfriend with her stroller and a baby a jabberen…. who took my water bottle and kept it. *G* realy I’d give my left foot to the baby if it would make her happy…. but i think her feet are cuter and she should stick with her own. : )

anyway…. I was supposed to run 13 miles on Saturday…and I didnt. I know you are giving me the LOOK… here is why. the race silly. I know me. and I had all the planes to head right back out find my friend and run her back in. But I smelled that wonderful bar B Q and there was NO WAY I WAS going back out there without eating. : ) sad isnt it. but I needed to eat. everyone on the trail knew that I have troubles with my sugars all were on allert. they even had oranges at all the aid stations along the way. BUT HERE IS THE COOL THING!

I have been learning how to use nutrition on the trail. on all my training runs there hasn’t been an aide station. so I had to learn how to bring it with me…. and it is working. I came accross NOT SHAKING FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!!!!!!! and it felt absolutly wonderful. I even had enough in me to sprint accross the line. so at everystation I was able to pass it up and depend on no one but myself. Thanks to my momms running pack she bought me! *BEAMING A SPOLED SMILE HERE*
I believe that my best 10 mile run was a 1:46 and some change. I was out with Mrs. M on this trail as I am in most runs… and I have to say she is fast. faster than me but not by much. so My goal became to just keep her in my sights. IF I could do that…. than I would be able to get a reasonable time that would beat anything I have ever done before…. it wasnt until Lankashire road that I watched her go down the hill to never see her again (Untill the end) I was upset that my legs were slowing. but they weren’t everytime I crossed a mile marker I would split the time. and I was going faster in every mile by a good 5 seconds. so I wasnt slowing. she was just going faster than I could. and that was all I could do. pace myself and try my hardest. Mile 8-9 was done in 9.21 and mile 9-10 was done in 9.06 after looking at my watch for the past 8 weeks and always seeing just over a 10 min. mile or an 11 min mile. to see a 9 min mile seemed out of this world.

I am so PLEASED WITH MY TIME!!!!!!!!!!! 1 hour 34 minutes and 44 seconds was the official time. do you read that as wonderfully as I do….? because that means that it would be possable for me to run a 4 hour marathon…… that all this training is going to be AMAZING!!!!! and I am going to cross with a smile. thank HEAVENS! I had begun to think other wise….

so this week Saturday was supposed to be 13 but next week was supposed to be 10. so I swapped them and took my amazing win ( in my world) to bed with me as I smiled in my sleep…..

If I could pick the best part of yesterday… it wouldnt be my great time. it would be the fact that my husband and children were int eh car… surprising all of us, 7 of the girls that ran I have been training with….. cheering fromt he car. they all said how special the kids were and that it helped them along. as it did me! they were in one spot… than they rushed up the road to the next spot. but you never knew how many miles you were going to have to do to see them again…. but it kept you looking and hopefull… and want you to look like you were in your best form when you went by them. : ) didnt want to look tired even when you were. : )

well this is my week. and next week will not be so exciting I am sure. BUT for this week ……. I am blessed. : )

M.T. miles 153 -3 out of 435 in 8 weeks….. now I was short 5 and I added in the 3 miles for my walk even though I only ran 2 in the morning. so that gains me up 2 miles in my 5 mile shortage. I will be getting int he 13 this saturday instead of 10 just a swap. so I will be right on track again….

Marathon Traning momma OUT!!!!

Posted: July 18th, 2010 under Marathon training, Running.
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