Sunday, July 31, 2011

7 Miles

Jenn and I did 7 miles this morning on the cedar river trail.  Both of us were feeling a little tired, but we pushed on to get a longer session in.  I even jogged for 3 minutes straight; my personal best.  Next week, we have another race; race # 2 in the quest to qualify for Half Fanatics. 

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Fast Thursdays

Jenn and I were joined by the lovely Ms Janel tonight on the trail.  Our 3 miles went quick so I checked, and yup, there's a pattern starting to develop.  Tuesday nights we are usually about 2 minutes slower than Thursday nights.  Same distance, same pace.  So....it's the weekend coming up that helps??  Hmmmm.  Well, either way, it's good to get out there and just do it!! 

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

3 mile nights

I am beginning to sound like a broken record...but we did 3 miles again tonight.  Took us 47 mins, doing one minute of jogging and one minute of walking.  Hopefully, I'll sleep better tonight.  I'm ready to go deep.....

Sunday, July 24, 2011

5 mile morning

After almost a week off, Jenn and I did 5 miles this morning on the cedar river trail, in about 1 1/2 hours. Slow for us, but it felt just right today.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

The Wild Thing 2011

Oh, my goodness, I had so much FUN today!!!  Jenn and I participated in my first loop run, at Lake Padden, just south of Bellingham, WA.  We did 13.1 miles in 3 1/2 hours which is pretty fast for us, considering we stopped after each loop to complete a task before continuing on.  We jogged more today than I ever have in a race.  It was great!  The trail was a nice, rolling track, with lots of pretty views.  I didn't have my camera with me on the trail, so here are the before and after pics. 

 On the road, appreciating the early morning clouds.
 Pee stop!
 Dressed up Divas, pre race

 Our task list, we did 5 laps, so we did the first 5 tasks listed in order to get our 'offical' time.
 Pre race, silly faces...we were ready to go!

 After the race, Diede and Jonathan came to meet us and helped take pictures while we cooled down.



 One of our tasks was to write down why we run.  Jenn's is in blue and mine is in orange, in the lower middle of the page. 
After the race, Jonathan offered to cook for us, and who were we to refuse???  We enjoyed a very relaxing hour or two hanging with them before heading home.

Great race, Jenn!!  It's our first qualifier for Half Fanatics.  We have much to look forward to this summer.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

3 miles goes fast...

....when you are walking one minute and jogging one minute.  We did another quick 3 miles tonight and shaves 2 minutes off our time from Tuesday.  Whoot! 

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

A quicky

Jenn and I are getting close to our next race, so we did a quick 3 miles tonight.  And by quick, I mean 3 miles in 47 minutes; running one minute: walking one minute.  It was good.  It still takes me a while to warm up, but I like how I feel afterwards!!!