Week 1: Day 2

* trail/road run = 2.72 miles, time 31:21, pace @ 11:32

* WALK with dogs: 1.7 miles

I know that it's still  2013, but tomorrow is the first of the month and the first of the year! So it's the first week of the year! Happy New Year!

I finished the month of December with 27.19 miles of running. I finished the year 2013 with 553.09 miles of running.

I got myself a 2014 wall calender where I plan to mark an X for each day that I run. This will include my own running and running with my dog, Jubee. I hope that this will help motivate me to run more regularly/consistantly where I see more X's than empty boxes/spaces. This year (2013), I didn't run as much as I wanted to because I didn't like the weather or I was unmotivated/lazy.

In my blog, I'll record any runs that I do solo or with my youngest dog, Jubee, and walks with my dogs. Lately, I've been doing "longer" (between 1.5 to almost 2 miles) walks with my dogs on a daily basis. I generally don't like to walk for exercise, but I will do it for my dogs.

Week 52: Day 7 - 2013

@ 8:05am: road run = 2.17 miles, time = 24:52, pace @ 11:24

Total Weekly Mileage: 7.92
Total Monthly Mileage: 24.47
Total Yearly Mileage: 550:37
Total Shoe Mileage: 382.44

New Year's Day is on Wednesday. Ok.....so I actually don't have any New Year's Resolutions. I'm just going to make sure that I end and start the year on a good note by not being lazy and sleeping in.


Week 52: Day 4 - 2013

@ 9:00am: trail/road run = 3.24 miles, time = 37:58, pace @ 11:43

Running this morning wasn't as bad as running later in the day. I didn't cough up a lung. It's weird that while I was still somewhat sick yesterday and this morning, I ran slower this morning. I think I put in the same effort on both runs too.



Week 52: Day 3 - 2013

@ 4:15PM: trail/road run = 2.51 miles, time = 27:24, pace @ 10:55

For the first time in a very long while, I ran after 3pm, much later than usual. The weather lately have been driving me nuts. I mean, I do enjoy this 80 degree weather when I'm NOT running, but I find no motivation to run when it's so warm. It's already warm at 7am!

I think I shouldn't have ran so late in the day. I'm almost over my cold, I'm still recovering. My lungs aren't quite ready for smog and I'm hacking/coughing my lungs out. Mornings aren't quite smoggy yet because the night air seems to clear it out by morning (which returns by mid-morning). I have to make myself run in the morning when the air isn't so smoggy.

Week 51: Day 7 - 2013

@ 9:00am: road run = 2.17 miles, time = 24:43, pace @ 11:27

Total Weekly Mileage: 6.69
Total Monthly Mileage: 16.55
Total Yearly Mileage: 543.45
Total Shoe Mileage: 374.52

Whoops, I forgot to update my blog on Thursday after my run that morning.


Week 51: Day 3 - 2013

@ 10:25am: road run = 2.35 miles, time = 25:38, pace @ 10:54

I've been randomly (on and off) running one WALK/RUN with one of my dogs. I've been doing a lot of walking with both dogs everyday. I had planned to do both running with my dog and solo running on the same day (using the "dog run" as a warm up), but I didn't have enough motivation to do both on the same day. I got lazy and hadn't been keeping up on running with my dog. I've lost quite a bit of my endurance and I get tired easily now. I need to get back into solo running again and build up some base running before I start training for my 10K race in February. I haven't been doing any cycling in awhile, and I need to get back to work on that too because I have a 20 mile bike race/tour on the same weekend as my 10K run/race.

And while I'm building up my base running, I need to work off this cold that I got from someone at work. Boo.



Week 49: Day 3 - 2013

@ 8:00 AM: trail/road run = 5.32 miles, time = 58:41, pace @ 11:02
@ 12:15 PM: hiking with dogs = 3 miles

I've hike many times before. Today was the first time that I took my dogs, Jubee and Kiko, on a hike. It was also the first time that they walked more than two miles at one time. They did pretty good on the hike. I'm not sure when I can take them again, but I want to take them on a hike again.

Week 49: Day 1 - 2013

@ 9:10am: bike ride = 7.15 miles, time = 34:16, pace @ 12.5 mph

 

I'm going to start running with my dog, Jubee. I think I've figured out a way that won't make either of us more tired than necessary. I tried to run with her before, but we both got too tired and it was hard, so I gave up. I'm going to try again. I'd really like for Jubee to run with me sometimes.

Week 48: Day 7 - 2013

@ 7:30am: trail run = 4.54 miles, time = 53:16, pace @ 11:44

Total Weekly Mileage: 14.04
Total Monthly (November) Mileage: 32.78
Total Monthly (December) Mileage: 4.54
Total Yearly Mileage: 531.44
Total Shoe Mileage: 362.51

I went running at the Chino Hills State Park this morning. In the first half mile of the run, there is a challenging hill. Since I haven't ran here since July, I struggled on the hill. I don't have the endurance to run this hill anymore since I lost some of the endurance.

I also forgot to check my ipod battery and recharge it yesterday. I didn't realize that the battery was enough for yesterday's run. I had to do the whole run this morning without music. I guess it's ok. Sometimes I need to run without music.