Memorial Day Weekend

My week ended with a total of 27.3 miles. I’m doing very well at making sure I get AT LEAST 20 miles in each week. I’m ready to start making my goal 25 per week and being happy with right at 30 if I manage to make the time to get all that running done. I guess it does get easier when I’m making most of my training runs from 5 to 6 miles during the week.

This Saturday we didn’t get any running in. Well, the weather has been horrible, but that wasn’t even why. We had both kiddies… and a Birthday party to go to during the afternoon. After that we went home and took a nap. Later I made a homemade pizza and we drank a few beers. Oh Yeah…

Sunday Mom came over and sat with Shyenne and Chase while Chuck and I got our long run in. Mom wasn’t too worried about missing the run because her calves have been bothering her. We went to Monkey Joes and ran the subdivisions behind the shopping center to Lake Joy Elm and back. Got about 8 miles out of it. My Garmin was dead, but we’ve done that run before so I knew the distance. Not sure how my time was…but I honestly didn’t mind “free running” for a change. When we got back I took Shyenne out to run 1 mile. 1 mile without walking, she was so proud of her little self.

Memorial Day was great fun. We got up early and packed food, loaded up the bikes, picked mom up and headed to Dauset Trails. We ran out there for 7 miles. It took us 1:46, but we had to stop a lot due to sludge puddles. We wanted to see how far we could run on the trail since we have the 15K out there in 2 weeks. It was challenging but I really enjoyed the run.

Since it was so muddy out there we drove back to Macon and rode our bikes on the Pig Trail. We only went about 3 miles out there. I am getting more comfortable on the bike, but I still thought I might die a time or two going down hill! We saw a deer again. I love being out in the woods playing!

Later on yesterday evening we went bowling and then to Mellow Mushroom for pizza. First let me state that I do not like bowling and completely suck at it. But since Chuck is always willing to do whatever crazy thing I want to go do… I figured it was my turn to humor him. Still though… I suck at it. Then I got a tummy ache from the bowling alley food I ate and the beer I drank. I just didn’t feel very good for the rest of the night.

At bed time I could not go to sleep. We went to bed by 10 and I was still wide awake at 12. I hate that… not being able to sleep. I get very frustrated and that just makes it harder to fall asleep. Plus I was TIRED from all the exercise earlier. What’s up with that?

Needless to say, when the alarm went off at 5 I felt horrible. Really horrible. I feel like somebody hit me with a car… My body didn’t have enough time to repair the damage I did yesterday. Plus I had not bowled in years so tossing around a 10lb ball so many times has my neck, shoulder and arm feeling sore. Yuck. I want to go back to bed…

Ok, enough whining. I am for sure going to get 100 miles this month. That makes me very happy. And I am going to try to get 30 miles in total for this week. I think I can make that happen. I am going to take today off due to the two long runs back to back, then my lack of sleep last night. I need REST!