Monday, February 24, 2014

The Good, the Great and the Ugly

THE GOOD
Last week I got back in the 30's for my weekly mileage. I've been building my miles slowly and then backing off again whenever I feel the slightest twinge in my foot's plantar. Following the plan of "listen to your body", it's taken me nearly two months to get back to where I think is my norm.
Jan. 17-23 - 4 runs and 3 Spinning classes
14 miler done! 

I'm happy to feel the endurance return. A 5 miler is beginning to feel average again, and my mile splits started to dip back into the 9's. I was most proud of Saturday's 14 miler. The distance has been toughest for me to build with 10 being my breaking point the past few weeks. However, this weekend I reached 14 on a solo afternoon run doing loops around my neighborhood. Boring but sufficient (and clear roads).

Where I failed this week... My Spin/Strength classes were cancelled due to a snowstorm on Monday, so I never got my strength training done this week. Then I skipped my swim. I am the worst at scheduling a lane time, and then of course, remembering it. Thankfully, today starts a new week.

THE GREAT
Thank you to all my faithful friends who voted continuously in the ZOOMA Run-to-Napa contest. The support was overwhelming and I will never be able to thank you enough. In all honesty, the daily self-promotion was getting uncomfortable. This is why people hire campaign managers in real life elections... it's a lot of work!  Like anything in life, I'm either all in or out. So I bugged the crap out of peeps for the past 5 weeks, begging for your daily votes. Some unliked, unfriended, unfollowed and blocked me, but the majority hung with me for the duration. Seriously, thank you so much for that. It means a lot. The contest ended at midnight last night. I was up by over 1700 votes, so now I wait for the official announcement from ZOOMA on the winner. Every time my email dings, I come running to the computer... Ahhhh!

P.S. As part of my final push, I promised to do one crunch for each vote that I received on Sunday. I have now completed 200 crunches today... with only 201 more to go!

THE UGLY
On a personal note, it was a rough few days... Both kids took turns being sick. I've never done so much laundry in one week before!  I've been sucking down the Emergen-C, hoping not to be the next flu victim. Today everyone returned to health, school and work, thank God!

After a couple days of relief, our temperatures have dropped again. The 10-day forecast indicates only one thing... winter is back. It's been a long cold season, but don't give up! The official first day of Spring is only 24 days away. I sure hope someone gives Mother Nature a reminder on that. Geesh!


This is the final week of the #WinterMiles Challenge! Good Luck!
Week 7 report-backs due today before midnight here.

7 comments:

  1. You deserve to win and I agree about the weather. I am so sad that it has turned cold again. I really thought it was going to stay warm in Missouri! I just can't wait until Mid March because that is when it usually warms up and stays warm here. Good luck on the crunches.

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  2. Why would anyone unfriend, unfollow or block you? Just ignore it. Dooffusses!

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  3. Bummer on the sick kids - glad that everyone seems to be healthy again.
    So exciting about the Zooma contest - congrats!

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  4. Hope everyone feels better soon.

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  5. We had a couple of days of Spring here and now back to good. I'm so over it!!

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  6. Hooray for the great! Woot for the good! Boooo for the ugly! Every child in America seems to be sick sick sick.

    I'm ready for Spring, missy...boy howdy, am I ready. :)

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