Michelle's Running Blog

It is nice to be at my parents house and have someone avaliable to watch my children while I run.  I didn't run until 7:15 and was able to go further than normal because I didn't have to rush home.  It was a nice run.  I noticed there were less hills but the two hills I ran up were a bit steeper then the hills I usually run in Colorado.  One thing that I noticed on my run was how much garbage and junk was in people's yards.  I guess I have gotten used to living and running in a covenant community where yards must be kept clean.  A ton of yards I ran passed, looked like they could start a local junk yard collection.  I guess that's what you get with country living, open spaces and no covenants. 

This morning when I opened the door to run it was pouring rain/sleet.  I decided to wait a few minutes to see if the weather would lighten up.  Luckily, after 15 minutes it looked a lot better.  Today I ran the opposite direction of yesterday and the yards were a lot cleaner with less junk, that was nice.  It was a good run, I am lucky to have help with my kids this week so I can run a little more and later in the morning.

Just another run this morning.  There was nothing too eventful.  I did wear shorts and it was really cold in the shade, I wished I had worn pants.  

I didn't really feel like running this morning but I had to take advantage of my last day of babysitting and running later in the morning.  So off I went for a bit over 6 miles.  It was a good run.  I am always glad I chose to run after, but sometimes it is just hard to get out the door.  Tomorrow will be a nice sedentary day, alone in the car for 8 hours with 3 kids.  I hope it goes well.  

I wasn't planning on running this morning because I had some earlier meetings and I wanted to sleep in after driving home on Friday and just relax a bit.  However, I woke up earlier than I wanted so I decided why not go run a quick 4 miles.  Well, they weren't really quick miles but that OK.  It was a nice run.

Two weeks ago I wrote about my ankles hurting when I ran for the first couple of miles.  When I was in Utah, I had no pain while running but when I ran today my ankles hurt again.  I don't know if it is because there are more hills, elevation difference, or maybe because there is more concrete here instead of pavement.  I wish my ankles didn't hurt and I hope it doesn't continue.

I don't have a garmin so I think I added about .2 to my normal 4 mile run.  I wanted to even the week out and not be left with a .8 in my total.