Michigan Crazy weather!

Well today it was 65 outside! (Well thats what my Jeep said) 65!!!, yes 65! That's awesome, even though we had the BEST (warmest) winter for what seems like since forever, I am sooo excited for warm weather!

Reasons:
1- More outside run's- (or walks when I have to push a stroller) at this awesome new trail that I found near me!
2- Get rid of this Ghost white skin of mine! I swear my skin is horrible in winter! Break out's- dry...ehh just bad!
3- SWIMMING! my daughter is a fish and loves water so will be exciting!
4- Clean my jeep out! I refuse to do it in the cold!
5- Open windows and get fresh air!
6- Play outside more = extra exercise!
7- Riding! 4wheeler and Ranger, was so much fun last summer,  every night we took a ranger ride through our property! So nice!

ill end on 7 cus thats my fav #! lol


SO TODAY was my day off but with this nice weather I went Diamond trail! Its a mile loop. Very pretty, goes through some woods and pretty much is in a huge open field! Just heard of it late last year, so excited to run it in the spring/summer!

 Walked 2 miles! Than did a photo shoot! lol

My lil love! all bundled up likes its 20 out! But she said her baby doll was wearing jammies soo was cold and needed the blanket!

 Couldn't figure out which one I liked best cus really its windy and were walking, not being/looking like super models today!

on this trail they have little wood posts that each have a different name on it, for a "in memory of" type thing. and they are all along the trail, so that's where I set the camera up! (and why the pictures are angled!)

Went to subway after! Seriously I crave subway everyday or at least think about it once in my day! Im addicted! Which is crazy because I didn't like subway that long ago, I could only handle it once every other month or so! But NOPE not now!! lol I try making it myself and of course never tastes like it!

This is what my fav. sub looks likes, veggies falling out everywhere and hard to eat!

and my love again!

Dinner: Homemade chicken noodle soup....ooooooo yummmmmmm!

it was really good!!

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(Recipe below in comments)

Hill Work

Need a little change up and not the same boring thing?  Help build some muscle? Help with your speed? YES YES and YES so I'm starting to add in Hill Work once a week, oh yay...lol I'v never done more than a walk on a incline!



   hmmm, well I couldn't decide which "Hill work" would be more fun?!

????

OK OK, this is about running, although I do have a love for my Dodge trucks, and country style! ( I also might need to get myself a pair of these super high waist running pants..LOL)


Hill Work,
 It really does make the time go fast, just like fartleks, your  changing things up every so often!!

 I got this from Happy Mother Runner  that she posted on her Facebook page!
(I just changed up the speeds for me and added my warm up and cool down)

15 min Warm-Up 1mi

Incline      Speed      Min
0                  6.0         5
1                  5.5         2
1                  6.2         2
1                  7.0         1
5                  3.5         2
5                   5.2        2
5                   6.5        1
7                  3.4         2
7                  5.2         2
7                  6.1         1
9                  3.2         2
9                  5.0         2
9                  6.0         1

15 min 1mi Cool Down

55 Mins

Give it a try!!!

Just Do It!

Last week was good, I did some good miles through out the week finishing with 27 miles. I been doing longer warm up's and cool downs. about a mile each. Which I feel have been making me feel better, and back to what my normal was before training. I useally will have my days off tues or wed. and friday. Well last week I had wed and thurs. so I had to run friday which I don't like cus I have a long run on saturday. That just set me up for a lonnnnnngg long run. which I only had to do 8 miles but they were...horrible. I thought it would have been great because I had a sitter, didnt have to worry about my daughter waking up or anything...but nope.  I walked prolly 10 times, Just couldn't get with it.  We were going to be busy all day saturday, which I was excited for and thats all I was thinking about! so I  wake up early to get something to eat a couple hours before running, than started running about 10a.m. Started off fine did a mile warm up, ran and got past 4.5 miles than...blahhh. It was bad, but I finished the 8 miles walked a small cool down. and thats it!  Sometimes its not how you plan it to be, but the one thing I read from Hal Higdon is to never cheat yourself on your miles!

 I may have done it in double the time, but I did it, and that's all that matter's! Time on your feet is the main thing for training.

If you set out to have a "good day" and things don't click, try again another time. You cannot force a "good day."   After all, a bad day running  beats not being able to run at all! I am lucky to even be able to have a bad running day!

How do you get through your "bad day's" ?! Do you feel guilty after them, or just proud you tried?
comment below!