Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Catching up...

Hey guys!

Can you believe December is here? Sometimes I just don't know where the time goes...
I haven't been the best about blogging lately so I figured I should check in.

I had a lovely Thanksgiving with my family. My parents, sister and niece Jasmine came up to Richmond to celebrate the holiday with me. It was such a delight! Jasmine is getting so big and she is quite the character... but be careful what you say, because this one hasn't developed a filter yet (she told my neighbor's daughter that her room was a mess and that she needed to clean it up... yikes).

Holidays are great, but for me the indulgences of the celebrations tend to linger too long. It's probably a product of not being in the habit of being good right now. Luckily for me, it takes 2-3 weeks to make a behavior a habit, so there is hope I won't repeat this pattern for Christmas. I think I will be well-prepared because I'm starting today!

Training with Sean is back to running smoothly... since I can't get ready there for the time being and I don't do very well working out at night, it was a little rocky for a while there. Thankfully, Sean is working with me on this -- which means on the days that I have to be at work at 7am, we work out at 5am. This gives me enough time to go back home and get ready. I really appreciate his flexibility with this, because I am so not ready to go it alone yet...

So, the 1st of December was the first day to sign up for the Monument Ave 10K. I decided that this is going to be my next race. It will be on March 27, so that gives me PLENTY of time to start training... I want to be able to run most if not all of this one!

Anyway, I think that's all I have to report... have a wonderful day!

Happy Tuesday!
LP

5 comments:

Casey said...

great goal! The monument is fun to run :) loads of people.

Laura P said...

thanks! want to do it with me, casey???

The Carter Family said...

i want to try to do this one too...i don't know if I'll be up to running it though!

Laura P said...

Surely if I can do it, you can too! I signed up today... as a Jog/Walker (90-100 min)... 90 min or under is my goal -- that's 4mph or 15 min miles... you can do that!

Hope said...

Great goal! I've been toying with the idea myself. I would like to join a training team, either Stroller Strides or YMCA, but I don't know if I can dedicate every Saturday morning because of Izzy. Maybe we could create our own team and walk/run together!