Happy Easter!
My Easter started off with a good breakfast. This is my normal breakfast…
I usually eat melon or cantaloupe with a banana, apple, and/or pear. I don’t eat all three. I eat a banana and an apple or something like that. The chow hall always has a lot of fruit so my breakfast is mostly fruit with cottage cheese. I cannot resist cottage cheese. It’s not like I get Greek yogurt here. Wahhh.
Then, I went on a run. I have to sneak off by myself to run since no one wants to run a billion miles with me. I did 10.54 miles @ a 6:58 pace. I wanted to do more miles, but my legs haven’t been feeling ‘fresh’. You know what I mean?
I followed the run with 24 minutes on the elliptical. My legs feel rather deadish.
Believe it or not, the barracks I am currently living in have a gym. I won’t lie to you. It’s a pretty average Joe gym. There are some weights that the dudes hog, two ellipticals (one is broken), a treadmill, and a stationary bike. I want to lift weights more; however, I’m too intimated. I don’t know why. I use to lift weights at my old gym all the time. Here, I’m intimated and embarrassed that I lift like 20 and 30 pounders while the guys lift 80’s.
Back to running…
On base we have The Battlefield. It’s actually a little tourist section with amazing running trails. Every time I run in the trails, I see deer and horses. It’s beautiful. It reminds me of home actually.
Well, this week I ran basically every day on my own time except for Wednesday. Wednesday’s here are considered ‘field day’ where we clean our rooms for an inspection. That means no liberty so I can’t run. Nonetheless, we do have PT every morning with our class. PT here is a joke. Yeah, it gets you moving, but we run for like twenty minutes at, like, a 12 minute mile pace. I swear I can walk it. PT here is for body maintenance, which is funny because a lot of people here are chunky. Not all, but there are quite a few. I blame the vending machines with donuts, Poptarts, and potato chips.
As I was saying, I ran basically every day this week. My stats look like this:
Monday: 8.39 miles @ 7:11 pace
Tuesday: 12 minute run (two miles at least) with a staff sergeant under a seven minute mile pace + weights + 50 minutes on the elliptical
Wednesday: PT run in the morning
Thursday: 8.51 miles @ 7:12 pace
Friday: 8.62 miles @ 7:04 pace
Saturday: 11.17 miles @ 7:10 pace
Sunday: 10.54 miles @ 6:58 pace
Total mileage: 49.23 miles
Of course that is not even close to what I want to be running!
Of course not everyone can be like Miley either…
I bet she’s better than Kara Goucher.
I kid, I kid.
Anyway, you can add a few miles that I run for PT in the morning with my class, but I can’t even count those because they are so darn slow.
As you see, I run like eight miles daily. Doing a bit over eight miles takes me an hour and that’s all I can do when I have a buddy running with me. It’s only fair to them. I know not everyone is a crazy runner like me. That’s why I am a weekend warrior with my eleven miles. Hah! I wish I was doing seventeen.
I hope this week to ramp up the mileage even though on Saturday I will be at an amusement park all day. I’ll just run on the treadmill at 10 PM. I don’t care. I just want to run.
My running face
And I absolutely love my running shoes. My mom sent me these:
They are like six ounces or something. Whatever they are, they are incredible. They go great with my unshaven legs.
Well, I hope I have a better week of running. I have a few posts up my sleeve about what I’m eating, reading, ‘dieting’ and more running. Obviously.
Enjoy the rest of your Easter!
I got some honorable eats for you. I couldn’t forget…
“Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you’re young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don’t let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.”
-John Bingham
SO happy you’re able to blog again- I always enjoy reading:).
That breakfast looks delicious, but I would be so sad without greek yogurt too.
And it looks like a successful week of runs to me- I’d actually kill for that mileage since I’m just getting off crutches having broken my leg 11 weeks ago( not recommended BTW!). Well actually I was never near as fast as you anyway:p.
Looking forward to your upcoming post, and YAY for the honourable eats, iv miiiiissed them!
Xxx
How the hell did you break your leg?
Umm, take this as a warning(just in case:).
I overtrained. Continued running through pain in my shins, which I thought were just shin splints, but were actually fractures. My tibia consequently completely broke-NOT FUN.
It was a result of years of overtraining and being underweight:/.
I second Sarah’s comment! It’s so good to hear from you.
Gosh I wish I could get back to running like you! Even if you think you’re not in the best shape or anything, you’re still my running idol! Can I just say I’m a big fan of your running face? I feel the same way. Actually I think running at night is quite nice!
It’s so great to see your posts again, I missed them and your hilarious celebs pics!
Your love of running is so inspirational too, you truly have a gift my friend. Hope you had a great Easter and hope you have a great week ahead!
Ohhh my gosh! You ran that far and THEN did an elliptical workout?! Haha that’s crazy!
I’m really glad to see you going to be able to ramp up those miles. I am preying I get to see you in May and we get to run together! You are awesome and don’t let anyone or anything tell you otherwise. I don’t know ANY other gorgeous kickass runners in the marines…yeah just saying.
I love hearing from you again! Your so strong and inspire me every single day.
I’m fairly new here. I wanted to say “hi” and let you know you are truly an inspiration for me. I’m 40-something and a lot of healthy blogs posted by young people are not interesting to me, I can’t relate. You are bright, eat well, and you’re running your butt off! I’m not a runner, I feel like a hippopotamus when I jog, LOL. I do love to hike and one day will begin trail running. Keep up the hard work, and take care of you.