Since I last wrote, I completed my 2nd half marathon.  This time the Detroit Free Press half.  I was excited to beat my Napa time by 15 minutes.  Since then I’ve just been trying to stay active and not get lazy like I did after Napa. 

I’ve been mostly rocking the trails, stony creek, paint creek, and inglenook.  Today I ran up to inglenook, did 5k and back.  Altogether 5.2 something miles.  I may potentially do the 10k Turkey Trot with me bro, so I gotta stay right and tight. 

Time to shower.
-p.

Just finished a lovely 6 miler at stony creek in shelby township with Kristin.

It was my first time there and I’m glad we went. They had those fitness stops where you do fun work outs along the way, though they weren’t the whole way ’round on the 6 mile route.

The run itself felt good. Kristin was a good pace setter. Yesterday I did an easy 3 around lathrup village to see how things felt after we did an unexpected 9.4 miles at paint creek.
So, with 12 more training days left until the Freep half I’m doing alright. I’d feel better if my mileage was a little higher but that’s ok.

Till next time,

P.

With about a month to go until the Detroit Free Press Half marathon I’m feeling pretty good.

I’m grateful for this race for pushing my goals and keeping things in check while I’m still unemployed.

I’ve been able to go to the gym here and there for some cross training although I don’t think I’m swimming right…

So, about a month till the race, looks like I’ll be upping my mileage in the next few days!

-p.

Coming off the greatness that was the Napa to Sonoma half, I was feelin the urge to do another.

I signed up for the Detroit Free Press half a week or so maybe after coming home from California. My thought process was “hey, I’m good to go, I just have to continue what got me this far”.

Well, since then I’ve gone on vacation and let my training slide. The race is in about a month so I figure there’s time to get on track, but I can’t help but feel I won’t beat my first half’s time this go.

Today I’m going to the paint creek trail to go for a 4 miler and see how I feel. It should be a nice one.

Love,
P.

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1st legit run in like 3 months.  I don’t know why I let it go that long, just wanted to be safe with the ol’ foot I guess.  I went for my usual route with a little twist to get some chin-ups.  Since I havn’t ran in forever I’m also behind in my running book so I gotta catch up on motivational reading.  There’s talk of signing up for the Detroit Free Press Marathon relay team.  Don’t know.  I want to do it but I’d like to also do well.  We’ll see.  Glad to be back in the game.

-p.

Wh’ok.  I have had almost no time to get back to running since I’ve been working the past few weeks.  But now I think I’m ready to get back into it since my foot got messed up.  Finally. This week I’ll take it easy and see how it goes for a few miles.  Wish me luck.

p.

My foot doesn’t hurt anymore, not really anyway.  At softball yesterday I ran pretty well without pain.  I have yet to try out any long distance running though.  I’m itchin to get back and improve my milage.  I think the bike riding I’ve been doing in the meantime will help when I start again, there’s that.

-p.

check this out, new shoes, some I should probably look into getting soon. 

still can’t run, wish I could. :-/

-p/