5 Miles!!!

So I have my wonderful family here visiting from The Netherlands, we get them for 3 whole weeks and what a great time we are having!!

Els is a runner and does training 2-3 times a week at home, so she has been so kind as to go with me this week and give me some great tips, so great in fact that I ran my first 5 miles!! What an exhilarating feeling to know that i have once again run farther than ever before, and that I WILL be able to run a marathon in June!!

I am so thankful for my family and the support they give to me. I have the best sisters in the world. I am excited to go on this journey with KL. I am also so glad that she has the patience to listen to me!!  Thanks:)

We are snowmobiling and skiing this week, there is soooo much snow here which means fun for all!!

Happy New Year, make 2011 the year to remember.

List of excuses

I have run a total of 6.3 miles in the last 3 weeks. I have several excuses for my lack of motivation, the biggest being I'm just plain lazy!!  I'm not really sure what is wrong I simply don't have the desire to go out and run, really I don't have the desire right now to do much of anything, not even laundry and I LOVE to do laundry (seriously I do) Not sure if I have an early case of the wintertime blahs or if life is catching up to me and all the sadness and heartache are hitting me and I don't even realize it. I've been going through some personal struggles for a couple of weeks and can't seem to do more than just the bare minimum to get by.

I have so much to be grateful for, but sometimes do you ever just want to say "hey look at me sometimes my life is hard too??" I just want to have a pity party.

I think I will take the rest of this week off and begin fresh again next week, the kids will be home so I will definitely want to get out of the house!! Plus all the goodies we will be making for Christmas treats will need to find a way off of my hips!!

Here are some more of my excuses

It's too cold
I don't have cute running clothes
My knees hurt
It's too cold
I ate too late
I haven't eaten yet
It's cold
Can't find my socks
Need to check facebook
My hair is wet
I didn't sleep well
And of course........It's COLD!!!!!!

Have a great weekend!!

Falling behind??

Sorry i have not posted for a few days.... It is all KL's fault, she said she would post so I was giving her a chance!!!J/K

I ran 4.2 miles Saturday in the snow, it was a lot more fun then in the cold!! For my birthday Shawn gave me a watch thingy that tracks my pace, route, time, distance all of that stuff it syncs with the computer and has a gps, so I should never get lost!!  I can't figure out how to use it so I have to wait until Shawn shows me what to do!!

I have not run at all this week, I had a special birthday lunch with some very special friends on Tuesday and we had a snow day today, there was no way I was going to risk being out there on the roads with that mess!!

I will do P90X or something tomorrow.....yea right I will probably not do anything who am I kidding!!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and looking forward to a wonderful Christmas season.