The December Recap

Oh man am I behind.  It's February and I haven't even told you about December... Oooops!

I've gotten off track.  I'll jump the gun on January and tell you that I didn't run even 1 mile in that entire month.  Never got my gear on and decided not to go.  Nothing.  Sometimes when you fall off the band wagon you just lay there under the wagon for a while until you pull yourself back together.  Sometimes it takes a month.

Back to December!

Goal 1:  Run 40 miles/month.  I missed it!  I was SO close and then I got really really sick the last 4 days of December and I just didn't make those last 7 miles.  I thought for sure I had it in the bag.  I was dreaming about the brilliant post I would make about my month and then my year and then we just all fell apart.  The kids were sick and when they weren't sick I was sick from what they had.  Darren had a fever for like 4 days.  Believe me it like longer.  He didn't sleep very much for those 4 days, and therefore Mommy didn't either.  But I did manage to push out 33 miles despite being pretty busy with Christmas festivities.  I used to be a perfectionist, but as a mom and as I've gotten older I've gotten so that I can accept best efforts.  I know that I really was trying hard to juggle all of the things I needed to do in Dec. and still get my running in so I'm not too disappointed.

Goal 2: Run a race each month.  I ran the first of the 4 race Frozen Foote series in Canton on Dec. 13th.  It'a s a 4 month series race that I also ran last winter.  Last winter I missed the Dec. race but ran the Jan., Feb., and March races. It's an almost 4 mile out and back race with some gentle rolling hills.  It wasn't easy for me.  I hadn't been running outside and it's not so easy to figure what to wear when it's 15 degrees out when you have been running on your treadmill in your not really heated (but warmer than outside) garage.  I didn't walk at all though and I kept a pretty good pace -for me.  It seems to me that only really awesome runners do these things.  I don't think I'm that pathetically slow, but I'm always at the back of the pack.  Oh well!

Here are the stats from the run:
 
First mile: 9:51 min/mile
Second mile: 10:20 min/mile
Third mile: 10:08 min/mile
Fourth mile: 10:16 min/mile

A 10:10 overall pace isn't too bad I don't think.

Last year, my first run in Jan. 2014 was an 11:56 pace (and by the third one in March 2014 I was super proud to get down to a 9:51), so yup, 10:10 isn't bad!

Here's to getting back into the swing of things!  Happy 2015!