Mom visiting!

My mom has been visiting. So i've been getting a lot done. I've got a lot of work done and I've been able to go out and run every day. I had a bit of a set back this week with both a cold and severe back pain. But my drill exercises, specifically the birddogging exercise, helped strengthen my back A TON. I feel a lot better. Garren and I are going out to run today with the kids. Next month I'll be purchasing my Rock n Roll Marathon year pass and will be registering for all my qual races. Here we go!

Piedmont Pacers! And breathing technique training.

I was accepted this weekend into the Piedmont Pacers USATF Running Club. It's out of Greensboro, which is two hours away. But it's the closest one to me. I now have one year to meet all USATF standards. And you'd better believe that was enough motivation for me to kick it in high gear. My mom is visiting for two weeks and I am getting lots of training in while I she plays with the kids :) Tomorrow, though, she plans to do some running with me :)

Tonight I ran five miles. Tonight's run was focused on breathing training. And I can feel that my lungs had a good work out! I sucked on life savers while I ran. That forced me to keep my mouth closed and breathe only through my nose.

I am so tired, but I need to do some work tonight. 'Tis the season to order window treatments :)

Post recovery

I took some time off to let a lot of things that were bugging me heal. I had designated today as my return day a long time ago. This is what the day looked like:

Train in the rain. Wasn't so bad. I ran all 6.7 miles of red loop at Ragnar in the rain. So it was NO big deal. But I was Spectacularly slow. And with the amount of time I took off I have to start my training program again. Until I get a running coach, I am using the training program designed by the Boston Athletics Association. I am doing the Advanced program found here. It was originally intended that the end of the training would fall on Richmond race day. but that isn't going to happen. I tore something in my arch and had to let that heal for two weeks. Set me back significantly. So I need to rework some things.

A few things are working in my favor: temperatures cooling, work is going really smooth, kids are finally settled in to the school and after school schedule AND I am finally losing the weight put on when I wasn't training while healing from my psoas injury for 8 months. So I'm looking forward to getting back into it. 

Back at it and feeling great! Follow my instagram or twitter @MelRunTheWorld .