Run Log: December 2013

The Streak:

I've run every single day since Thanksgiving Day.  I will finish the blasted thing tomorrow, when I run on New Year's Day.  I'm not sure if it's helped or hurt my overall fitness...never before has a mile or a mile and a half been an acceptable running distance.  But I did it.  Had to run a few Friday mornings at 5:15 am {at the Y ~ and not on my favorite treadmill since someone set it up like their locker...}  I even ran when we first arrived in Colorado ~ and then again when we arrived home.  A short little run after so very little sleep.   I'm rather looking forward to running 3 to 4 days a week ~ and adding some other activities. {yet to be determined}   I'm unclear as to what my next run will be.  The Cleveland 10 miler?  The Cleveland Half?  The Northern Ohio Marathon?  I'd like to do the fun little runs...the Captain's 5K, the Red Bird Run, the Grand Prix series with NERC.   Currently I'm fighting a sore hip/lower back.   Yesterday it was really sore, but with stretching and rolling, it is feeling better.  As Mike and I moan and groan when we move, I'm worried about what we'll be like when we're 60.

December’s Totals:

87.65 miles for the month 
1217 miles for the year {an even # since I ran 3.51 this morning!}
0 biking miles for the month
132 biking miles for the year
431.42 miles for my orange mizunos 

79.29 miles for my bright blue Brooks 

2011: 564.5 miles

2012: 656 miles 

2013: 1217 miles 

My WEIGHT:  136.8 is what the scale said this morning.  I took my Lose It! app out of the folder...and onto the second page of my phone.  Time to watch myself...and fit back into all those size 6 pants I bought.

Some interesting facts:

Longest run this month: 7 ~ the run steak curse.  more running...less miles.
Favorite place to run this month: the bike path in Colorado.  Ran out to the peninsula one gloriously cold and clear morning.  There may be less oxygen, but there's so much more beauty!
# of bags of Candy Cane Kisses left in my cabinet: NONE.  I did not buy extras. {and there were none at Giant Eagle on Sunday, when I looked}
# of books I read this month: four
Monthly mileage record: 155.46 ~ August 2013!  WOW
Highest mileage ever-at-one-time:  26.2 ~ October 13, 2013 ~ Northern Ohio Marathon

PR's:
5K: 22:45 (Rabbit Run 10/30/11~ but I think it was a short course)
10K: 52:02 (Cleveland 5/15/11)
10-miler: 1:21:29 (Hermes Cleveland 10-miler 4/28/12)
half-marathon: 1:47:35 (Cleveland Half 5/19/2013)
marathon: 4:01:04 (Northern Ohio Marathon 10/13/2013)