In my defense, last week was a very busy week. I took on the responsibility of opening the store at work, which consequently led to several 8 hour shifts, plus a few hours at my other job. Combine that with fundraising, trying to keep a clean house, and general to-do's...and the blog falls behind.
Although this really shouldn't be an excuse. If I allowed 'my busy life' to get in the way all the time, I would fail at this whole experience. Many of you don't know, but I tried to start training for the marathon last summer. I ran on my parents' treadmill regularly, tracking my progress. When I moved to Niagara for school, I ran through the wineries, until October. When October came along, I decided I was too busy.
This is something you hear a lot from people who aren't active (like me). And from my experience now, can I just say - although I do miss the world of sleep, it's not hard to wake up an hour earlier and give yourself more time in the morning to get done what you want to.
Anyway, a lot has happened since Wednesday so let's see if I can't get you back on track!
My training progress:
Last entry was when I started the whole run-to-walk training ratios. You may recall (and if you don't you can just scroll down), but although I was awesome and did 2 sets of 3-and-1's (run 3 minutes, brisk walk 1 minute), the whole thing was a little jumbled. So, I've worked on being more balanced and straight-forward in what I'm doing.
I can officially say that I can successfully take on the 2-and-1's, followed by 1-and-1's on my return. If you're following my pattern, that also means that, yes, I am back to running my return, rather than walking it in case of injury. Basically, I go out on 2-and-1's and return on 1-and-1's.
Not only am I running my return again, but I have also put hills back into my training, rather than solely walking those to avoid injury as well.
My plan now is, to continue steadily at this pace for the remainder of the week. The weekend will be my push times, so I will hopefully be able to do 2-and-1's on my return on Saturday. Then next week I will increase to 3-and-1's to go out, 2-and-1's on my return. If I can keep pushing myself up like this, I will be able to make the ideal 10-and-1 in time for the Running Room training! Woot!
I know this will still be a great challenge, but the way I look at it, the running is the easy part. It's trying to get out of my sweaty sports bra without letting it touch my face after the run that is the challenge.
Fundraising progress:
We had some great pledges come in this past week, as well as several friends who are committed to donating. In fact, we have a $200 pledge coming in at the end of August! Although it's after our first deadline, this will really help us get to the second deadline.
Jeff even ran a car wash again at the Esso here in Guelph yesterday. Now that made me proud, because whereas my weakness is the running part, Jeff's is the fundraising part. But he did a great job! The weather was cold and cloudy and so traffic was slow, but the team (Andre, Heather, Larry, Amy and Jeff) managed to bring in $187 for us.
And of course, this Friday is our Hawaiian-Themed Fantasia Party, and Karaoke is coming up next Wednesday (remember, advance tickets = complimentary appetizers, email anniejeffrunning@gmail.com to order them!). I've also found some great recipes for dog cookies that I'm going to start baking this week to sell around town. And we booked a little party at the Sapphire Room in Peterborough for this coming Saturday so that all my friends and family there can finally get a chance to come out and support us.
I'm crossing my fingers for some big numbers to come in the next few days for sure.
Jeff's Training Progress:
This part is a joke. I shouldn't be tracking Jeff's progress at all! Before I get into it, just an FYI that Jeff may guest-blog once in a while to share things from his perspective, so stay tuned for those!
So, Jeff. God, I hate my boyfriend. Jeff has gone out on 3 runs now since we registered for the marathon. The first run I blogged about (I rode my bike, we went much farther than I ever do and the boy barely broke a sweat). The second run happened while I was at work one day and Jeff popped in to deliver some ibuprofen for me...and continued on his run. The third run was on Saturday.
The little jerk ran 30 km on Saturday.
Yeah, you heard me. 30 km. The farthest he's ever gone is 10 km, and he just up and decides to run 30 km on Saturday. So much for those dreams I was having where he falls down and I cross the finish line before him. The worst part was, as usual, he didn't even feel very poorly afterward. He waddled for the night, but the next day was back to normal.
And by the sounds of things, he did that 30 km in about 2 hours and 50 minutes.
I hate him. So very not fair/cool.
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