Well, It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update on my training!
I’m still planning on doing the Mississippi Blues Half-Marathon on January 7th!
As you know (if you’ve been reading my blog) I had a bad case of the shin splints a few weeks back and that set me back quite a bit… then I finally cleared those up fairly well and did that 8K last week on Thanksgiving which went FABULOUS!! I finished in 51:37 and was extremely pleased with that!
So I have found the BEST running buddy for me. We keep each other going at a really great pace, she’s not too fast for me, but she also isn’t slow and keeps going. So, Meet Caroline!
Caroline is on the right and that’s sweet Chelsey on the left. We worked camp together this summer and I got so close to these beautiful women! Chelsey unfortunately is in Lucedale teaching and we don’t get to see her much, but Caroline is the Starkville High Track coach, so she’s in town with me! She has been the greatest motivation for my running and she says the same about me. We just are right there at each others pace. It is so nice because my previous running friends, although SUPER GREAT, were sometimes way too fast for me and I always felt bad.
So back to training… we’ve been running together for a few weeks now and it has been going SO GREAT! I have to stretch a lot and after every run I put on some compression sleeves and ice my legs to help with the recovery. It has been going so well and today we did FIVE miles! I’m so excited to be back on the running track. I want to go ahead and set my goal for the Half-Marathon…. TWO AND… wait for it… wait for it… (any How I met your Mother fans out there? ha) A HALF HOURS!
So there, the time is out there… It’s what I’m trying to live up too, so everyone… KEEP ME ACCOUNTABLE! I’m looking forward to the next few weeks in training and I’ll try to update you guys again in a week or two!
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