Week one in the books!!

Last week went pretty darn well minus the one day that I cut short and only powered out 1.5 miles because wine was knocking at my door.  The real highlight of the week was my trip home to Spokane to participate in Bloomsday a 14k race with 57k of your closest friends.  It is one of those races that you say sorry at the beginning for bumping into people around you and that "sorry" should cover you for the whole race!  As you know my training only called for a 5mile run but instead I did a 10.3 miles walk and I was not prepared for that.  Live and learn I guess. I was good physically and with my wind but my feet just could not handle the the distance without getting many blisters on them.  It was a great day for an event as my mom likes to call them because she says she is not racing anyone just participating.  I have a few pictures from the day that I stole from my Aunt Patti who flew in from Cali to do Bloomsday with us.  I will leave you with a few pictures of the day and will fill you in on this weeks training later on this week.  As a preview it is much of the same distances as last week as this is just the getting back to running phase.

It is tradition in Bloomsday to throw your unwanted clothes at the start line in the tree to be donated!

The start

The Church that always has their bells ringing and choir singing as the race is always on a Sunday!

Carrying the Flag the whole 7.4 miles!!

This is a picture of the hill of all hills called Doomsday Hill.  

Here is another shot of the hill.

another Bloomsday tradition, the Vulture at the top of the hill to greet you!

There is it almost done Mile 6.

This week I have 2-3-2 and a weekend run of 4 miles.  

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Marathon or Bust

      I have a new goal and training starts now!!

I have singed up for the Portland marathon on October 4th 2014.  I will say that I did complete the Seattle half it was a walk not a run but it was completed.  That is not the goal I have for the Portland marathon.  I want to do it like for real run the whole way and check the marathon off my list.  I got the idea to do this when I was thinking about doing a full Ironman.  I was thinking that it might be wise to conquer the marathon first before I bite off a goal of an Ironman.  So when my boss sent me a link to sign up for the Portland half marathon.... I just clicked the full button and not the half I thought why not.  I have taken time off from the training world and I need to get back at it.  I need to have something to blog about trust me my "normal" life is too boring to share.  I need some accountability to keep my butt in gear.  

This week's training:

Monday: Rest Day  Its the first week of training so I will be doing a gym activity of sorts swimming or lifting.

Tuesday: 2 mile run

Wednesday: 3 mile run

Thursday: 2 mile run

Friday:  Rest

Saturday: 5 mile long run.  Rest day

Sunday: Walk 30 mins. I will be doing a race with my Mother and Aunt in Spokane that is 7.4 miles I believe, so this will be the long run for the week with a rest day on Monday.  I am out of shape so this will be a run walk combo. As some of my runs will be until I get back up to my old running self.

I have not had any real motivation on this front I just think of this a goal far out in the distance this will truly be a big test fro me to see if I can stick to this plan and get ready for a full blown marathon.  Here goes nothing.

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