How'd March Go?

Monthly Miles Ran: 258.1 (Year total: 826.2)

Rest Days Taken: 0

The Streak: March 31st was Day # 326 of the streak 2675.4 miles,

445 Runs ~ ave. 8.2 miles per day/ 57 miles per week

Highest Mileage Week: 3/14 - 3/203 (DM Weeks) 66 miles

Races:

Seneca Creek Greenway Trail 50k ~ Distance and course PR ~ 6:06

The HAT Run Trail 50k ~ Second fastest 50k ~ 6:17

 

Current Shame-Inducing Guilty Pleasure:

McDonald's Coffee almost every weekday morning ~ but I take my own cup!

Non-food Current Shame-Inducing Guilty Pleasure:

I am still living in compression. 

I wore my CEP compression shorts during both races and believe they made a difference in my ability to push through those last difficult miles without cramping.

Which Outfit did I Wear the Most:

I lived in One More Mile shirts, Nike shorts and my black and grey striped knee-highs this month.

What We Are Watching: 

With the Kiddos:  MegaMind

My Viewing:  127 Hours  Favorite movie of the month.

Funniest Kid Quote:

(S'ghetti girl shares loads of great conversation but LBM usually does say the cutest things)

Scene:  Me on treadmill as I stop the noisy treadmill

LBM playing in workout room

LBM, "Mommy.  You done?" in the cute young child with a head tilt way

Me, "Yep.  Are you ready to play with Mommy?" said somewhat rhetorically

LBM, "No.  Me run fast now.  Move."

Current Triumph:

Setting a new 50k PR, two weeks later completing my second fastest 50k ever on a very challenging course all while continuing my running streak.

Current Goals

Personal:

To budget both my time and money more deliberately

Running/Fitness:

To enjoy and be successful in running my first 50 mile trail race.

If successful, I will have raced 113 miles in 5 weeks ~ a new PR.

Current Blessing:

This day and all the ones that God gave me before it.

 

Current Excitement:

Family:  The continued hope that Army Son will be home soon.

Running:  At the beginning of March I was # 62 on the wait list for The Bull Run Run 50 miler.  You'd have to have just awoke from a coma to be unaware that I am finally IN!

April 9th, 50 miles here I come!

Current Concern:

Family:  Army son still is not home.  A problem with paperwork may keep him away another month.

Running:  On April 9th, I am going to be running 50 miles.

How did your March days add up?

Late to the Party

I am not much of a crowd follower. 

That is really my only excuse for not knowing what all the fuss was about a few years ago.

However, this morning while running on the treadmill I finally figured out why a world full of women fell in love with two young boys.

Twilight

I am finally watching it and now

I get it.

I have all three movies.

Looks like some long miles for me this weekend

but wouldn't you know it, the weather is going to be perfect for running outside with the jogger. 

I guess I'll run faster knowing when I get back I'll get to watch!

Freaked Out!

All weekend I struggled with a lack of motivation. 

 I felt like my measly miles really didn't amount to much compared to all the long runs everyone was putting in.

What I lacked in motivation I made up for in jealousy.  I was jealous of all the races planned when I still have none.  I spent considerable time looking over upcoming races to see what I'd really like to do but even that didn't snap me out of it!

I was really getting Freaked Out over whether or not I was going to get my run in today.

It's Day #98!  I kept telling myself.  Get out there and get your miles in.

Then Negative Nancy would start yapping about not really having a race to plan for and how I wasn't going to get a long run in this weekend with everything else.

Yap Yap Yap.

So I spent the day with my family simply spending time together knowing that when we got back to PA I would be hitting the treadmill.  After the long drive, I needed to find some way to keep myself on the mill.

A movie! 

I got everything in place.  The kids were playing in the other room.  My Nathan's handheld was filled with ice cold fluids.  Good to go.

I told myself just do 2 miles and see how you feel.  Okay.

Start the movie.  Which movie?

The Fourth Kind

I like a good scary movie sometimes.  But this movie started out with the actress telling everyone how there is actual footage along with the movie and how "these events were supported by actual video or audio."

O.K.

The miles were ticking by and I had stumbled across my motivation somewhere on that looping black belt!

But

I was in a little room tucked under the stairs with headphones on so I can't hear much of anything else that is going on around me. 

Freaked Out!

I kept thinking I heard noises behind me.

Uh, maybe because the kids were in the adjacent room, duh!

But at the time that reality didn't register.

Needless to say when S'ghetti girl opened the door to tell me LBM was done "playing nicely", I screamed out loud and ended my run with 5.75 miles. 

Now the kids are in bed and I would really love to go get in another 5 miles but I have to admit that I am still a bit Freaked Out!

Next time, a comedy.

Maybe I Should Do Movie Reviews

I really don't know how it happened.  I knew that I was not following my training schedule this week when I only got 15 miles on Sunday instead of my scheduled 20 but I don't know how that short fall ended up in me being at 74.5 miles on Thursday night. 

I have watched The Perfect Getaway, The Proposal and Surrogates already.  I should write reviews.

Since movie reveiws are not my thing, I will just leave you with a few reminders of some of the great giveaways happening in Bloggy Land.

Remember this is the last day to enter my Life Your Sole Giveaway!

Erica is having an Awesome Kalyx Sports Bra Giveaway

Jen is having a great dual giveaway. Check it out!