month one of training

what a month Ive become somewhat of a morning person :) let's just say today was the first day one of my alarms didn't make me jump out of bed when it went off. lol  Lissa and I have been killing it since our race on the 24th! we did 45.73 miles just in the last month my ave mile was 16.28 but one of the day's this week  i crushed that with getting my fastest mile 12:17 also got a new 5k time of 41:28  and a 1k of 6:58. my trainings really stepped up the miles from 3-5 for the last 3 weeks to 5-9 next week the trail we've been running on is a max of 7 miles so there will be a few runs (9,10, 11, and 13 miles) that we'll have to find a different place to do them but it will be good to get some variation in runs. Lissa asked what my goal was with my running and when i told her it was length and then she missed a run and asked how i did she decided she was holding me back so she rides her bike now and yells at me ! lol

it's a great thing though when i'm being lazy and just walking  more then i should or to help motivate me, she will go ahead of me or pick a land mark and say run to/past that bench or her bike. she has helped push me out of my comfort zone and it has helped me do better at my distance for sure! when i started training for my 10k in march i only ran from the top of a park on my trail to the bottom now she's got me running from the top down and around and under a tunnel into the little league fields and almost all the way past that, a little at a time. it's been so great having her, my mom, and Justin telling me how proud they are of me and to hang in there.  if i make it to October there will be a HUGE thanks to those three for sure! it's a little depressing seeing my weight not changing but i know I'm building muscle and that fat has no chance. but it's hard seeing the finish line when your only finishing 1/3 of the training way to the race and with the crap load of hours i got this week at work I'm stressing out way bad because right now the race is my priority (trust me my list of undone chores shows it) lol

  

but the sunrise's have been so beautiful and it's been nice to get a workout in every day even if I'm falling asleep at work : /  it's worth getting up ten to six.

also with our anniversary coming up we said the fun concert was all we were doing for each other but i was sneaky and Justin had said he was really wanting more chrome on his bike so i picked out this awesome grill for the bike ta da (he loves it) :)