September Run Log

September...the month of my birth...a busy month of school & cross & family & running.  Fall is a beautiful time.  Standing by the finish line at Camp Stig, looking across the lake to the treeline, with its changing colors and the reflection in the pond, I just stopped and took in the beauty of it all.  {and then I saw all the blue kids running ~ there were many more blue than any other, because only one other team with 7 kids came to run with us today}
A great running month! Two races & a PR!
Cross Country has been great this year ~ our boys have only lost to Memorial {twice} and just totally rock every time they hit the course.  The girls are just as awesome & fill me with hope as most of the front runners are 7th graders.  I'm going to miss all these 8th graders; they are all amazing kids.

September Totals:

103.68 miles for the month 
837.89 miles for the year 

358.01 miles for my blue Brooks Glycerin 12 ~ Seriously...over 350 miles & they are still cushy & comfortable.

Training for:  The Northern Ohio 1/2 marathon on October 12. and the Rabbit Run ~ which is always a fun race :)

My WEIGHT:  Weighed myself over the past few days...133 to 135 to 138 this morning!  All that birthday Mac & Cheese & the chocolate & cookies & the peanut butter cup blizzard cake...which I am going to have a piece of as soon as I'm done here!

Some interesting facts:

Longest run this month: 14.05   With negative splits ~ ready for that 1/2
Favorite place to run this month: Run for the Grapes 5k!  so PUMPED about my PR
# of books I read this month: Two 
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: 22:30 (Run For the Grapes 9/28/14}
10K: 50:13 {Run for the Hills 6/22/14}
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)