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I am a Runner

by Ariana Peters, posted in healthy lifestyle, kids, life, running, training

After so many years of not consistently running; moving in with my now husband, getting engaged, getting married, enjoying being married then kids. I find myself having to remind myself that I AM A RUNNER.

Even if I run slow, even if I have runs where I walk more than I run, even if I have bad training months, whether I finish first or last in a race (I have finished last lol) whether I run a marathon in 3 hours or 7 hours….I ran it…..I am a Runner.

For some reason now, I don’t know if it’s tackling the marathon or maybe having had kids, but I seem to be much harder on myself than I was 5 years ago when I was running. If I have a bad run or a run where I’m really tired or even a bad month of runs suddenly I think I’m not a good enough runner. I don’t remember ever feeling like that when I was training for half marathons before kids.

I think it might be because this has been such a bad month with my kids sleep and my stomach issues that I feel like I’ve backslid in my training a little. But I don’t ever want to be a perfectionist. So I have to continually remind myself that there will be seasons in life where it just doesn’t go the way I want it to.

But I am STILL a runner!!!!!

Weekly Workouts

by Ariana Peters, posted in healthy lifestyle, kids, life, running, training

Sunday – OFF

Monday – OFF because it was 110 degrees

Tuesday -OFF Because it was 106 degrees

Wednesday – OFF because it was 103 degrees

Thursday – 2 miles

Friday – 3 miles

Saturday – 4 HILLY miles

Spent the weekend at my in-laws and that town is all ups and downs

Total miles this week- 9

Weekly Workouts

by Ariana Peters, posted in healthy lifestyle, life, running, Uncategorized

Sunday – OFF

Monday – 1 mile……I have been having some stomach issues the last 4 days so even this was a slog.

Tuesday – 2 miles. Ran this after I put the baby to bed. It was actually pretty nice outside but I ate way too much dinner so I was really bloated and uncomfortable on this one.

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday – OFF still having stomach issues and feeling a bit run down from it.

Saturday – 12 miles!!!! Got it done! I slept in the tiniest bit so it got a bit hot. I stopped halfway and the farmers market and refilled my water bottle with strawberry lemonade hahahaha and ate extra energy gels to combat the sweat loss and a system that was probably already a little out of wack from all the stomach stuff. It is VERY slowly improving.

Total miles -15

Weekly Workouts

by Ariana Peters, posted in healthy lifestyle, life, running, training

NOTHING!!!!!

Ok not nothing, I did a 1.5-2 mile walk with the kids in the stroller pretty much every day but I was feeling really tired and a smidge burned out after almost 3 months of building back up after pregnancy and then starting marathon training so I took a week off and enjoyed my sleep in day on Saturday. I slept for 12 hours! I needed it. Now it’s time to get back to it.

Weekly Workouts

by Ariana Peters, posted in healthy lifestyle, kids, life, running, training

Sunday -OFF

Monday – OFF

Tuesday – 3 miles

Wednesday -OFF

The longer my mileage gets the less I want to press play on any kind of strength training. I need to start finding shorter strength workouts as my mileage increases. I can go back to 30 minutes strength workouts after the marathon.

Thursday – 3 miles

Friday – 2 miles – these were hot miles right in the middle of the day while I got the kids tonight from the stroller.

Saturday -10 miles

Weekly Workouts

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

Sunday – OFF

Monday – OFF

Tuesday – 10k race

Small town race means it wasn’t exactly 10k length hahahahaha

Wednesday – OFF

Thursday – OFF

Friday – 3 miles

Saturday – 7 miles

Total miles- 15.93 miles

With the holiday and the jam packed week we had I was exhausted. We did lots of activities this week so I took it easy on the workouts.

I just hit REI and got lots of yummy new energy gels for the next 2ish months of training!!!!

Weekly Workouts

by Ariana Peters, posted in healthy lifestyle, life, training

Sunday – OFF

Monday- OFF

Tuesday – OFF

Wednesday – OFF fighting a summer cold 😢 resting now it hopes to kick it quick

Thursday – OFF I made sure I took plenty of time off so my cold wouldn’t come back

Friday – 3 miles

I accidentally hit save instead of continue after stopping to look at puppies lol

Saturday – 6 miles