I had a little bit of slipping here. I got up late and got to the gym about 15 minutes late, cutting in to my workout time because I did […]

DAY FIFTY-SEVEN – CROSS TRAINING – ONE HOUR DAY FIFTY-EIGHT – PACER – 2 MILES AT 6.7 MPH = 9 MINUTE MILE PACE DAY FIFTY-NINE – LONG – 4.9 MILES […]

I was looking forward to today’s run, knowing I was going to get to go with my 16 1/2-year-old niece, Emily, who is on Cross Country. I know that Emily […]

Well, this was an interesting run. I was in Minnesota, my husband’s home state, for a memorial service for his grandmother who had passed away a couple of months ago. […]

We were flying out early this morning for Minneapolis and I figured that our travels would not leave time for a run, so I scheduled this to be my rest […]

This is just befuddling to me.  If I allow myself to go as slow as I want to go, I average 5.7 mph.  If I try to go fast, then […]

It looks like I will have to just get used to the idea that I must stop briefly, just about every mile, on these long runs, probably including the actual […]

Who puts these things on my calendar?!?!  Three miles at 6 miles per hour?  I think we already determined, this is too fast for me.  Oh well, just give it […]

Piece of cake. Boy, this speed thing is really something else. Trying to run at 5.45 mph is simply not a challenge, and I ran this 4 miles at 5.7 […]

DAY FIFTY – PACER – 4 MILES AT 5.45 MPH = 11 MINUTE MILE PACE DAY FIFTY-ONE – PACER – 3 MILES AT 6 MPH = 10 MINUTE MILE PACE […]