Friday, January 25, 2013

Winter Run on Saturday

I have been running inside at Planet Fitness and have done well. I have run 5 miles twice on a treadmill and it felt good! Tomorrow, the plan is to run outside in about 20 something weather. I am really not looked forward to this but know that I need to start running outside some if I want to do a race in February. I do enjoy running outside but only when temps are around 45ish and up. So tomorrow is going to be a challenge. It is also an early morning run starting around 7:30 for Grattan's birthday. Blake and others will be running 14 miles but I plan on trying to get somewhere between 4 and 5 miles. I may be running by myself but there may be a few individuals who run somewhat of a pace that I keep up with. I hope that I can run with someone and hopefully be able to keep a good pace. I have learned that when I have someone who runs besides me then I will keep a good pace and I am able to keep a good pace.

 I know that this week I will not get the miles that I would like. I want to be able to run 16 miles a week. I do struggle with trying to get to the gym to run. I have tried to arrange my schedule so that I can meet my goals that I set for each week and month. 

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Goal for the week of Jan. 7

I have come up with a goal for this week. The goal is to run a total of 16 miles. I think that is is do able since I have started running 4 to 4.5 miles now. As of today, I am halfway to reaching this goal, which makes me excited. I have done a total of 8.3 miles (4 miles at Planet Fitness and 4.3 miles at Blackwater with part of that being on a trail). I am getting close to reaching my goal for this year, 5 miles. When it gets warmer, I am hoping to do most of my runs outside but for know, I will do half of the mileage at Planet Fitness on Monday evenings and Thursday mornings and the rest on Tuesday and Saturday afternoons at Blackwater. I know that some people do not like running on a treadmill but I don't mind it. It also depends on the weather for me. I just need to take it one day at a time and one run at a time.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Kristen's Race Schedule

I have been running for a couple of years now but only running 5ks and every so often 4 miles. For this coming year, I have set a goal of running the 5 Miler in July. So I have looked over the race schedule that is Riverside Runner's website and came up with a list of races to run this year. 

Feb. 26th- Liberty Mt. 5k (trail race)- still not sure yet
April 6th- Point of Honor 5k
April ? - 4 mile race
June 22- Presybterian Homes and Family Services 5k
August 10th- Lynchburg 5k
September 28th- VA 4 Miler
Oct. 5th- Deep Hollow 5k (trail race) (not sure about the date yet)

I am not sure what my times will be but I am hoping to improve. I have thought about even running some local trail 5ks but I have not fully decided on this yet.