TCS New York City Marathon - Get Your New York On Challenge

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I just entered the 2014 TCS New York City Marathon Get Your New York On Challenge. Read my story and VOTE for me!

It would be so awesome if you guys could vote for me! I would love to win this opportunity! 

Day 1

Today began my journey to the finish line of the TCS NYC Marathon. Well my training that is, the journey to this decision started long ago, but today is when it all becomes real and the real hard work starts! I chose to follow the Hal Higdon method after reading his book, Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide. The schedule has tolerable mileage during the week, and long runs that gradually increase maxing at 20 miles. I could try a plan with more mileage, but my only goal is to finish healthy. Besides slow and steady wins the race, and I don’t want to rush through it, I want to relish every moment that day brings me! 

Today’s run called for 3 miles. I had issues with my Garmin, so I had to use my Nike+ app, and logged 3 miles in 32:37 with a 10:52 pace per mile. The weather was muggy, and humid, and the air was very thick! But my run went very well, I took it nice and slow, and ran with ease! But I do need to invest in a water bottle ASAP, I was thirsty really fast, and I know the longer runs ahead will definitely  require me to hydrate throughout! 

All I know is that I have a long road ahead, but I’m going to give it my all, and try my best to do what it takes to get to the finish line! 

The Battle Continues

Still trying to find a balance and control, over my healthy lifestyle. I’ve been so stressed out lately, and have a lot of things outside of my running life going on. My stress loves food. I haven’t been terrible staying on track, but by the weekend I’m a mess! What I need to really do is focus on staying on track all week, and allow myself to cheat on the weekends within my points and weeklies. My goal this week is to stay within the daily points range during the week, and save as many weeklies for the weekend, so that when it does come, I’ll have more than enough points, that I won’t feel so guilty, and go off the deep end! 

My workouts have been pretty good, worked out 5 days last week, ran twice! I feel like I’m lacking in my running, but then I had to remind myself, that this month I wanted a break from running. Beginning July 1st, marathon training starts, and  I don’t want running to feel like its all I do by then, because I’m sure by November it’s mostly what I’ll be doing each week! I also am hoping to fit strength training at least 3x a week when I hit marathon training. I like to do Jillian Michael’s DVD’s, because most of her workouts are no more than 35 minutes, so if I wake up at 5 am, on those mornings, then I can still fit in my run or cross training after work, before my house wife duties kick in! 

Being a housewife is a whole other battle I still have yet to conquer! So far I think I’m doing ok, I just hope when marathon training begins and progresses that my guy will be understanding that I won’t feel up to tackling everything that needs to been done at home right away! 

I’m also hoping to post weekly updates on marathon training until November, I’m thinking of coming up with a pros and cons format for weekly updates, that way I can make changes where necessary! We’ll see, my life is so hectic sometimes that I have no clue what I may be doing in the next 5 minutes!

Till next time…