more runs after Birthday Break!

4/24 Sunday - Okay... jogging may have gotten a little harder!  walked 2 miles, and then ran 2 miles in 23 minutes... which is 5.2 mph!  So maybe running faster made it a little harder?  Anyway, feeling good... traveled 4 miles!  Hopefully burned off some Easter chocolate!
Total 64   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

4/22 Friday - Wow, it really doesn't feel like I haven't exercised in 11 days, lots of birthday fun, eating out, etc. ... but I took a few shorter walks with Mully on Wednesday... today I ran 1.65 miles...maybe I'll try to add in .5 miles later?  I don't know... For some reason I thought I was running longer... but hey, any running is better than no running!  Adding 3 to scheduling difficulties for the past week...
Total 63   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

New Runs!

4/10 Sunday - traveled 4.43 miles... jogged 2 miles! With Mully, go Mully! Had some knee pain, so had to take a couple of breaks...hoping to work in more
Total 62   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

4/8 Friday - 3.77 miles traveled... jogged 2.25 miles in 25 minutes! Go Laura!
Total 61   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

Spring is here! Fun to run in the sun!

4/3 4.5 miles traveled during dog walk with Mully... probably only jogged 1.8-2.0 miles, but all of it faster than I would generally go... I was really pushing my lungs! Now icing my rt. shin, which is ouchy... on the way over there I felt a little pain in my right hip... hoping to use stretching/icing to avoid injuring!
Total 60   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

4/2 Saturday - jogged nearly 2 miles, minimal warm up, minimal cool down, in a hurry, hope I don't hurt myself, last mile run in 12 minutes for a 5.0 mph pace
Total 59   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/27 Sunday - Jogged with Mulligan Osher (Spring Spaniel) today... jogged 2-2.3 miles... traveled 4.85 miles! woweee! and it was so nice to have a doggy partner in crime, even when he sometimes wanted to go the wrong direction!
Total 58   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/26 Saturday - I know I was at the gym for roughly 90 minutes... I was actually ellipticalling about 70 of those... go me! 70 minutes? that sounds insane!
Total 57   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/25 Friday - Really thinking this weekend should involve three exercising days.  No reason it can't.  Jogged outside today, but miscalculated my distance, so I only ran 1.88 miles, in 23-24 minutes... which is under 13 minutes per mile... I felt pretty winded by the end...the way back is a bit of an incline I suspect.  But my legs felt good.  And I caught my breath quicker than usual.  Go team Laura!
Total 56    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5


3/20 Sunday - Laundry day...at the gym from 2:10 pm to 4:00pm...but I only kept track of roughly 70 minutes of ellipticalling... so it is a mystery what I was doing the other 40 minutes... Some of it may have been stretching/warming up... doing the laundry part, I don't know...just know I was tired after all of it.
Total 55    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

SPRING is here!

3/18 Friday - Oh my! What a busy week it has been! So my exercise schedule took a hit... but I'm back at it and I ran outside for 2 miles and did some warming up and cooling down too... The second mile took roughly 13 minutes, but I had to stop covering ground at one particularly long stop light... so my pacing is pretty much the same as I do inside on the treadmill!  Note to self, use vaseline before run to avoid chafing!
Total 54    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/10 Thursday - Decided to mix it up and save time by exercising on the way to my appointment.  I warmed up walking for 10 minutes-ish and then started jogging and jogged roughly 1.4 miles in about 20 minutes?  Then I was at my appointment and still felt pretty good, so I thought I could just jog back... I jogged about 1.1 miles (according to MapMyRUN) and walked the rest of the way home... so in total I jogged about 2.5 miles.  But I really should start using my inhaler again...boo cold air on lungs...
Total 53    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/6 Sunday - I'm pretty sure I exercised this day... yes... I did, it was after making a video with Jill May... I jogged for 2 miles after warming up for 15 minutes... I forget the pace, but I totally did it. Phew!  6 miles in one week! With minimal pain! Yay!.
Total 52    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/5 - Saturday - warmed up for 15 minutes walking, then jogged for 2 miles at 4.5 mph... then walked for 15 minutes...
Total 51    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

More Workouts! Having trouble keeping track there are so many!

3/2 - Wednesday - warmed up for 15 minutes walking, then jogged for 2 miles at 5.0... then walked for 15 minutes...
Total 50    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

2/27 - Sunday - The great thing about exercising so regularly is that I am forgetting to journal it!  That is an accomplishment and a sign that I am making a routine here!  I think I went to the gym and saw Amanda R and talked about stuff on the ellipticals... it was pre-oscars and I was rushing home... but I don't remember exactly how long I did anything.
Total 49    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

2/26 - Saturday - warmed up .5 miles...jogged 2 miles at 4.5 mph, cooled down... stomach and shins hurt pretty bad...but I forged on! Go me!
Total 48    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

2/20 - Sunday - I know I exercised... I think I ran 2 miles this day even though I thought it might be a little too much!
Total 47    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2 more workouts! Go Laura!

2/19 Saturday - went to the gym... 15 minute warm up, 2 miles at 5mph...15 minutes cool down...good for me... stretched everything out, hoping not to be hurting too badly tomorrow... when I want to go to the gym again and go running again!  I read an article about how long it takes to develop a habit... 66 days they said.  So, I'm definitely through that period...though I haven't done 66 days of workouts...so, we'll see...
Total 46    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2/17 Thursday - went to the gym despite being up til 3 am studying last night... 15 minute warm up, 2 miles at 5 mph (faster than usual!), and 15 minute cool down... stretched after, did some sit-ups...
Total 45    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

February workouts!

2/13 Sunday - Thanks to a frustrating conversation with my mom and the suggestion of my roommate Leia, I went to the gym today! 60 minutes of ellipticalling and I must have done a little something else since laundry takes 27 minutes +50 minutes, and I was doing stuff until my laundry had 10 minutes left... good for me!
Total 44    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2/12 Saturday- I'm a little confused about when I last exercised... I think it was last Saturday or Sunday... and then this was a pretty rough week and I didn't get to it again until today.  But... today I went to the gym, warmed up for 15 minutes, ran 2 miles...right shin keeps feeling sharpish pain on food landing, walked 10 minutes, stretched...got a bad weight this morning...might reflect the rough week.
Total 43    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2/6 Sunday - Thanks Facebook... I did run this day... ran 2 miles, traveled 4 in total
Total 42    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2/5 Saturday... forgot to ice it.  I could go to the gym and do the elliptical... hmmm... we'll see how it goes...

2/4 Friday... Fail. I would have exercised today, but I was busy all of the hours that I would have been able to go to the gym. Boo. And my shin hurts... should ice it.
Total 41    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2/1 Tuesday... went to the gym... ran 2 miles... didn't feel great...right shin bugging me again...
Total 41    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5