Marathon

Running plans

Well hello hello and welcome to WEDNESDAY! —-> I just typed that and it sounded so overly perky and annoying that I decided to keep it as my intro haha. Sorry 😉 [I do talk like that in real life occasionally-eek]

I feel as if I haven’t talked much about running on my blog lately and I guess it was for a reason. I didn’t really have any plans for completing a race. I have still been running (20-35 mile weeks) and I’ve been trying to work out a racing schedule. Yeah, it’s been fun. I was looking into running a 20 mile race in February, an 30k in March, various 5k’s/10k’s in April and a marathon in June. 

Mostly, I want to run a marathon, so that is what i’m going to focus on! DUH. If I follow a 18 week training plan, that mean’s i’ll start training for the June 2nd marathon in the last week of January. I want to follow the training plan as closely as possible and some of the winter races i’m looking into just don’t match up with the plan/milage. You win some, you lose some (literally…).

The toughest part about running in January-June is the crazy Pittsburgh winter/spring weather for long runs!

So it looks like I am going to be running a half in March (like I did last year.)I’ll also be running a lot of 5k’s/10k’s in April and a marathon in June. That is the plan, if I don’t get injured!

As my road racing season gets closer I will be posting a more exact schedule of all the races i’ll be doing. For now I will leave you with my 2011 year end report from Daily Mile. 

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How do you deal with the inclement weather for long runs?!

Awkward pets?

Happy Thursday! How is the weather by you? Yesterday it started out raining in the low 40’s in Pittsburgh and ended up in the low 30’s and snowing by 2:30–right when I got out of my last class. Brrr. I usually walk Lola after classes and yesterday was no different..except it was cold, so I bundled up. 
I also attempted to take pictures of Lola with little success. 

Other picture fails:


Face time with Jimmy. Cause I hardly see him. Sad.

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Does anyone have a cat who likes to sit like this?


Lily (Hannah’s kitten) often sits like the above picture^

So when I see her sitting like that I like to grab her paws and look into her eyes. It is really awkward for the both of us.



Okay, enough.

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This post has been really random! Other random tidbits:

-Yesterday my mom went to spinning for the first time with me. She liked it & now Hannah wants to go. Rock on.

-I had my last microbiology class yesterday and I’m kind of sad because I liked it so much.

-I can’t wait to have time to bake and read more over the holiday break! 

-I can’t decide if I want to do a marathon in March or an ultra in April. I hate running in cold weather. I don’t know what to do! 

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Do you have any weird things that you do with your pets?!

[Besides holding Lily’s paws when she sits upright, I try to get Lola to come into the bathroom while I shower to keep me company but she is scared..lolzzzz]