Monday, February 20, 2012

2.82 miles today

I ran for a mile and a half or so and ran into a friend on the path so I ended up adding on some walking too! Beautiful evening.

2.29 miles today!!!!

Squeezed in a run after a baby shower and before going out to a birthday dinner with friends. It felt good to run a little longer!

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Catching up

Ok. I have ran every day this month so far. It seems I am better at consistently running than I am at blogging! I'm posting a screen shot of my running log which includes the mileage for each day. I will try and post some photos from different days too. I think my most challenging run so far was the evening after I had hiked almost 12 miles through the Haleakala crater I stopped off at the gym and ran a mile. My legs were angry but it felt awesome to say I did it. I would have to say one of my favorite runs this month was last night with my wicked awesome friend Leeann who ran with me at 10:30 at night after our friend's birthday party!!!

This has absolutely been an awesome month so far. Only 10 days to go!!!

Thursday, February 9, 2012

20 days to go!

Tonight I ran 1.25 miles after work. I was wicked tired but ran anyway and I think I busted out my best time for the mile for the last 9 days!!! 20 days to go!!!


OK... I haven't fallen off the wagon yet... just been too busy to post!!!  On the 7th I ran 2.06 miles and tonight I almost didn't make it in time... I finished my run a little after 11pm.. yikes!  I ran 1.09 miles. 

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Day 6 - I ran 1.22 miles today..  I would like to run a little longer tomorrow.  We will see if I can squeeze it in with my crazy schedule.  Between work and studying for a class I'm taking its been difficult to find extra time.   :)   I was really happy about the photo of the day.  :)   I was passing a fence that has the green screen attached to it... the silhouette of the weeds on the other side of the fence and the sun shining through made for a great canvas.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Day 5 of running everyday this month!

 













I actually procrastinated on my run all day today.  :)   It was challenging because I went to a super bowl party and enjoyed the friends and food and just couldn't pull myself away to run.  Sooooo when the party was winding down I zipped home grabbed my shoes and ran 1.34 miles around the streets of my neighborhood in the drizzling rain.  It was actually pretty refreshing!  Anyway... I do not recommend running after dark and it really does make for boring photos... oh well... here is the pic from day 5.  :)

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Running everyday of February!

Day 4 of 29 - I ran 1.25 miles today.  It was a beautiful day for a run!  25 days to go!  :)


Friday, February 3, 2012


















Day 3 of 29 - Running!  :)  - Today I ran 2.30 miles.  I felt really good like I could have ran forever.   :)  We will see how it goes tomorrow!  :)

Thursday, February 2, 2012

February is the coolest month!

So many exciting things have been happening in recent months.  I had the opportunity to visit my family in Oregon over Christmas.    We even stayed a couple days on the spectacular Oregon coast while I was there.  You can see a photo of Haystack rock here.  :)

Since I've returned to Maui from the holidays naturally I have been thinking through goals for 2012.  They are developing as the year progresses. 

In the area of health and wellness I have enrolled in a class to get certified as a personal trainer.   I have been studying a absorbing as much information as possible in the last two weeks.  As I study I keep thinking I need to be living out the lifestyle as well.    So each day I am making an effort to make progress towards my physical fitness as well.

Since I started running for "fun" in 2005 I have heard about these crazy runners who run absolutely every day for years and years.   Every time I hear about these people I think, "that's nuts!" and "I want to do that!!!"

Recently I received a flyer for a Leap year fun run.  Its basically getting everybody to get out there and run, walk, jog or crawl on February 29th for 2.9 miles.  This run wont be held again for another 4 years so I want to encourage anyone who reads this to register and do it too!   Go to lifeasarunningmom.blogspot.com and sign up!  Its going to be fun!!!  :)   I decided that I will run everyday of February (at least one mile)  so I can say I ran for 29 days straight and on the 29th I ran 2.9 miles.  :)  Its going to be fun!  :)  So to keep me accountable I am going to try and snap a photo every day on my run and post as many of them as I can on here.  :) 












So here are a couple pictures from my last two days.

Day 1 - 1.27 miles:


Day 2 - 2.56 miles: 



OK...  its been two awesome days in a row and I'm looking forward to tomorrow!  :)  Aloha!