Young Party of Four

It's the biggest week of the training plan!! Here. We. Go! Tuesday Plan: 5 Miles, Actual: 5 Miles We have officially hit the point that 5 miles doesn't seem like much anymore. It's just 5 miles. The only downfall with this run was that it was about 5 degrees cooler than I would have liked. Oh well. Beggars can't be choosers so I'm letting that go. It wasn't as cold as I was on Sunday morning so I will take that as a win. I did my normal route and didn't see the bear. Again. So that's about all I felt with this run. I was having a bit of pain on the side of my calf like I have before but it went away after about a mile. My pace was about average for me at around 13:30 or so. The run felt good though. That's about it. It's becoming so routine at this point that I don't have a lot to say about most of these shorter runs. They are standard, I guess. And I guess that is good. Thursday Plan: 5 Miles, Actual: 5 Miles All in all, not a bad ru...

Double digit week is upon us!!! Not only is it Week 10 of the training plan, but it is also the week that we run double digits for the first time as part of training. Okay, as part of life. I've never run double digits before this week. Tuesday Plan: 4.5 Miles, Actual: 4.5 Miles Our last week with 4.5 mile short runs. Next week it goes up to 5 and then drops to 3 for the weeks before the actual race. This was another one of those crazy humid mornings. I screenshot the weather before I left when it said 100% humidity and it was so bad. I couldn't see but maybe a house ahead of me for a while during the run. It did start to burn off just a bit as I was heading home in the final .5 mile stretch. Or maybe I was just accustomed to it by then. Either way, it was rough. It was cool though so I'm calling that a major win because I don't want to another 100% humidity day along with heat. Though it could happen. This is Central Florida after all. This run felt easy. It was de...

Bring on the 18 mile week!!! This is going to be an interesting one since one run I'm doing outside my normal neighborhood (more on that on day 2 of this week's plan). Full disclosure to myself when I read this back one day... I'm writing this a full week removed from the first run of this week so I have no idea what was going on most of the time when I was running a week before. =( Tuesday Plan: 4.5 Miles, Actual: 4.5 Miles This is the first week of short runs being 4.5 miles and I was ready for it. I ran these at about my normal pace averaging 13:49 pace. Overall I was slightly slower, but it was fairly warm this morning and I wasn't feeling it. I think this was a run that I woke up not in the mood to do anything but I did it anyway so I could keep on schedule. Also, I knew that with this week, we were officially just over a month away from race day so I was excited and feeling sort of ready to get the show on the road and finish. Other than the heat, I remember...

It's happened! We have officially made it more than halfway through the training plan and that means the OUC Half Marathon is now closer than ever. Obviously. That's how time works. Anyway, this is a week that requires 16 total miles and a whole lot of my time... but here we go! Wednesday Plan: 4 Miles, Actual: 4.11 Miles So, to start... the weather still stinks. Seriously stinks for fall. So much humidity. It doesn't even seem to matter what the temperature is because the humidity makes every run so much harder than it needs to be. It takes your breath away. Today was slightly cooler than last week's runs and I could feel that in the air... but the humidity stole away any added reprieve from the lower temp. Also, when I say "lower", I mean not 80 degrees at 5 am. Nope. It was 77 degrees. Still ridiculous. We are supposed to be seeing some cooler weather (60 degree morning temps) this weekend so I'm holding out hope for that. But not much hope. This ru...