Surf City Half Marathon

I have not been running much lately.... I broke my foot in England at the beginning of August so I had not ran since i was in England.

So that said I started running again last Saturday. My mom, my dad, and I all signed up for the surfcity half marathon in Feburary. We dicided that we should just set the goal which will force us to actually do it.

My dad and I came up with a training plan that includes running (obviously), intervals, cross training, and strength training. Hopefully we will be able to stay with the schedule and be able to run the entire half marathon.

Since it is raining it is making it really difficult to go out and do the training that is needed... hopefully it stops soon.

jogging final

so for my jogging final I was super tired and my leg was killing me but somehow i was able to finish my mile in 8.03 which is pretty good! and the best time that I have gotten. I do think i could have done better if my leg hadn't been hurting!

Now I am doing a bootcamp with my mom for a while! It's a lot of fun but doesn't have me running as much... I think I'll have to make Katt get up and run with me!

Mud run number 2

My parents, Jake and I ran the OC eco mud run this last saturday! We had so much fun!
Sadly the last few weeks my leg has been hurting again so I was not able to run the entire thing I had to take a few breaks to stretch my leg a little bit. Other than that it was really good and we had a really good time! Jake and My time was 35.10 which isn't bad for a 5k but I could have done better if it weren't for my leg!

Jogging class

So i have been in this jogging class at school! It's not to bad! I wasn't sure exactly what to expect but i do think it is making me stronger in a way! especially since lately I have been to tired to want to get up and run, this class has forced me to do it anyway and push myself to do it.

We run between a mile and 2 miles ever class which is Mondays and Wednesdays at 7am

This Monday we ran another timed mile. I was trying not to get the best time a could while still beat the time i got on the last one (9.15). I was really shooting for about 9.0 minutes of course I can't ever hit what I want to and ended up getting a 8.24 which actually kind of surprised me that I could do a mile that fast and still think i could go faster! I'm actually kind of excited!

today we ran a timed 2 mile I was able to get 17.47 which isn't to bad i am actually pretty shocked now that I look at it that just a year ago I could not even run a full mile straight and now I am trying to slow myself down. Kinda cool!!

My leg hasn't been hurting at all thankfully! the only time it hurts now is if I try and sprint so I just don't do that :)

I am signed up for the Irvine Mud run on April 24Th with my friend Jake and my parents. So I need to keep up the training to make sure that I will be able to do the 5k in the mud! I am pretty excited about it!

Jogging class

So the jogging class has been going good! I had to run a timed mile yesterday so that we could get times for the beginning of the semester to improve on!

So my thought was I will jog really slow so that my time will be bad and I will be able to improve easily! so that's what I did or so i thought!

I ended up with a time of 9.15 that's better than any of my other times! crazy! so now i don't know how I will be able to improve on that week after week! ugh. oh well I guess I will be really challenged!

as for the injury I have been feeling so much better therapy is going great and hopefully I will only have a few more weeks of it and I will be cleared!

update

ok so it's been a while i am totally slacking!

Let's see I have still been running almost everyday! it's been raining lately and well i have been slacking in the rain but i just don't feel like getting soaked a little rain is ok but pouring just not fun!

Any way I have been going to this new physical therapy place it's called synergy it's so good! Leo my therapist is awesome and i have been getting great results! I have been able to run without my wrap and without tape and still have no pain! it's amazing! we figured that it is an IT band problem so we have been working on that and so far it's working hopefully i'll only need another month of therapy and been done! so exciting!

I also signed up for a jogging class at school at 7am on Mondays and Wednesdays! I am super excited hopefully I will get some great pointers! I'll have to post things as I go!