Summers in Houston are not for the faint-hearted. We had a week of 100 degree days, 90+ percent humidity and generally miserably hot weather. Now the weather has turned to rain, rain and more rain. How is one supposed to keep running in this type of weather? The good news is that I’ve made it to the last 2 weeks…
29 July 2016: Summertime blues
I’ll admit it. I’ve been lazy the last two weeks. My last good run was at Hermann Park with the Luke’s Locker group. It was a good run with both Kathryn and Connie….but it was hot and muggy and exhausting. I was glad that I did it – but I haven’t been very motivated since that day. I…
07 Jul 2016: Working on my speed
The last 2 weeks have been very hot here in Houston. It’s miserable to go outside and run, so I’ve been running inside on the treadmill. I’m trying to increase my speed by using the C25K app by Zen Labs. So far the workouts have been good. The day before yesterday, I completed the Week 2, Day 2 workout. The…
22 Jun 2016: New goals to the end of the year
Now that I’ve run the Tinkerbell 10k and the NYRR mini-10k, I do not have any new races on the horizon. That got me thinking about new running goals. Certainly I would like to learn how to run faster and longer without stopping. The hard part is how do I do that? Almost everything that I’ve read says that I…
11 Jun 2016: NYRR Mini 10k race recap
My sister signed up for a conference in NYC and we decided to combine that with a girl’s weekend. So I got a crazy idea in my head that it would be fun to run a race while I was there. When I started researching options, I found the NYRR Mini-10K race which is run in Central Park. Package pickup…
6/4/2016: Heights 5k Race recap
Rain, rain go away….come again another day! It was wet and rainy on Saturday morning for the Heights “Run the BLVD” 5k! I arrived around 6:45am just in time to be in the photos taken by Coach Joan of our 9 to 5 group. Even with the bad weather, there was 20 of us! Much of the core group and…
28 May 2016: 4 miles today which makes 10 for the week!
This week I “wogged” 10 miles in high temperatures and high humidity. What is a “wog” you might ask? It’s a combination of walking and jogging. I laughed when I saw it in someone else’s blog and I think it’s very descriptive for slow runners like myself. But back to the heat and humidity that I experienced this week. I’ve…
21 May 2016: I’m baaaccckkk….
I went to my Luke’s Locker training class today and I ran for the first time since the Tinkerbell 10k. It was hot, the hills were tough, I sweated gallons — but I did it! We did an interesting workout called the “cloverleaf”. We walked/jogged over to where Waugh crosses over Memorial, by way of Buffalo Bayou. Waiting on the…
18 May 2016: Still not running….
I’m falling apart. I can’t hear much out of my left ear. Its been clogged up for the last 3 days. I’m tired and cranky and I need to run! Last night I got on the treadmill and walked 2 miles slowly but my doctor said today that I shouldn’t run for a few more days. She said…
15 May 2016: 8 days later and I haven’t run a single step!
The Tinkerbell 10k was 8 days ago. While I had intended to take a few days off from training, as of today I have not run a single step. I was hit hard by a sinus infection/cold a few days after the 10k and I’m still recuperating. I’m coughing, my ears are filled with fluid and I’m generally really really…