Time to Get Serious

Okay Spring is officially here. We had some nice mid-70's days last week. Crazy for being barely April. Today is rainy and mid-50's but I'm not complaining. I started doing some barefoot walking (outside on the road). I'm still too chicken to do any real running. Mostly because I am only running 3 days a week now with my FIRST program and those runs are pretty intense. Too much for a barefoot noob. I would like to do some easy 1-2 milers on my off days, but finding the time to squeeze in an extra workout is not easy.

I have races scheduled pretty much through December. It is exciting and daunting. I have a 5K this Saturday and next weekend a 5K and a 6K. Three out of four weekends, I will do doing a 5K and an occasional 10K. I might do a half-marathon in late June, but I have to convince my husband to let me run during our family vacation (Big Ticket Festival). It shouldn't take more than a couple hours, right? He will probably still be sleeping in...won't even know I'm gone. :) In July is the Frankenmuth Volksläufe 20K, basically another half-marathon. And here's the big one: my first marathon (still just a potential at this point)-- the Beaver Island Marathon. This race looks AMAZING. It is on a remote island off of Lake Michigan, has a relatively small number of participants and is a Boston qualifying race! How cool is that? So, I think that when I finish my 18-week half-marathon training program (which should be complete my mid-June) I will get started on the marathon training program. :)

I completed a 7 day total juice feast last week. It was easier than I thought and I felt great. Now that I am back to solid foods, I feel tired. I will probably go back on mostly juice for a while. I had to break my fast because my husband flew home for a couple of days during Easter weekend and demanded that we go out to dinner. I had a "big salad." That's about as extravagant as I get when we go out to eat. I am a cheap date, but I make it for it when I go grocery shopping.

Now I am just waiting for my sons to get home from track practice so I can go for my interval run. I hate my interval runs, but will feel much better when it's done. I'm hoping all this hard work pays off and I can set some PR's this summer. Well, time to get back to work. There is no rest for the dedicated.