Training Update

As I mentioned in one of my previous post I am training for the SurfTown Half Marathon which is coming up right around the corner on the 18th of this month. Training has been going really well, up until this week grr...The rain coupled with the sun rising later each day has totally put a kink in my training. Having said that I missed my 5 miler yesterday and today it looks like I am missing my 3m or cross training that is on my schedule. Today is Adam's mom's birthday (Happy Birthday Debbie!! ) and tommorow is my 31st birthday. We will be having his parents over for dinner tonight and I feel like getting in a treadmill run today is even going to be hard. I have done very little treadmill running because lets face it, it sucks! I only run on a treadmill when I am desperate. Today might be that type of day but it will only be if I am lucky to get out of work here early enough...

So heres to keeping my hopes up for no rain tommorow and a safe 5 miler run in the dark before work! I have a 10 miler planned for Saturday morning which marks my longest run since my last half marathon last summmer. Last weekend I ran 9 miles with Traci and we ran it in 1.5 hours (pace was 10:00 min miles) I know I could and have run harder than that but the goal of the day was to get through it. I had a crummy nights sleep and it was humid, didn't help that I had 2 glasses of wine the night before. (you know the old story...I should have stopped at one!) In the end we felt good but those first 2.5 miles were quite miserable. Running is funny like that at times. It's almost like I need a 3 mile warm up sometimes to get into my groove.

Next week is a taper week which I know is very important to training effectively but having had these 3 past days makes me feel like I need to go all out next week. I know that is not a good plan so I just need to get focused for tommorow's 5 miler and my 10 miler on Saturday morning. After Saturday's run it's a party night for me, whooohooo!! Our friend's are coming over to our house for drinks and a casual night of pizzas and hanging out on the deck in honor of my birthday. I never had a birthday celebration for my 30th last year being preggers and all so this year I said what the hell, who cares if I am turning 31! I don't feel any older (for now...ask me in the morning on Sunday after I can't recover like I used to!). The night will be a nice break for us too without the boys. Adam's parents are taking these cuties for an overnight!



Here we are at the Goshen Fair this past weekend. Eli seemed to really enjoy the fair this year again, he loved the animals even more than last year obviously and the rides were so much fun for him! He even went down the giant slide with Daddy. Here they are enjoying the ride!