THIRTEEN POINT ONE

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Well, I’ve been busy as hell since the last time I posted on here and since then I’ve run another half. This makes my fourth! It was the Oklahoma City Memorial Half Marathon, which was the first half marathon I ever ran last year.

Also since the last time I’ve written, I found out I’ve been awarded a scholarship to study in Wales for a semester so I signed up for my next half in WALES! I’m so excited to run that! It’s not as big as the OKC or Route 66 races in Oklahoma, but it had 18,000 participants last year, so it should be great. I’m SO excited!

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14 / 05

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// Another Half…//

Tomorrow morning I’ll be running my third half marathon, again with no training. This time I’m running it with my good friend Charlotte. It’s her first half so I’ve decided to just stay with her throughout the race. It’s going to be fun.

After this I’m going to start FOR REAL training for my next half marathon, which is the OKC Memorial Half Marathon. It was my first half marathon. I’d like to do well at that race because I think I should have a better time by now and I have a co-worker or two running it. My competitiveness has bee uncovered.

Bring it on.

02 / 03

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// O Motivation, Where Art Thou//

SERIOUSLY. I COULD USE YOU RIGHT NOW.

I’ve determined my previous motivation was spent with my first success at a half marathon. ~~I don’t know WHAT came over me and kept me waking up early to run, running most evenings, and running some weekends.~~ Hatred, jealousy, and pride fueled my efforts a year ago.

Boo, how pathetic is that!?

I need to find a new motive. Maybe I’ll make myself obsessed with getting hot.

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That’s it. My new motivation: Project Get Hot 2013. Commencinggggg….now.

23 / 01

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// Winter Break is just about over…//

…and school is starting up again in about 36 hours. I’m excited…and I’m not. It’s going to be a long and tough semester so I know I’ll be stressed out and crunched for time. I have been stressing mildly about band interfering with work (and paying my bills) but it’s absolutely perfect and, again, I’m so happy with my job.

As an avid scheduler I have spent hours specifying and color-coding my schedule. It’s pretty crammed but this is the average week I’ll be having until May.

This is it right now but I’m thinking I can fit in a workout on Tuesdays since I only have work at 3pm and the only “class” I have is Band at 7pm but I may need that time for studying or homework.
I took a month off of running so I wouldn’t burn myself out right before race season and honestly…I probably wouldn’t run anyway so why make myself feel bad for not doing it? I’m excited to start going again and to stop eating crap.
This semester I want to run at least 10 miles a week and get more involved in yoga to try and keep my stress levels down.
…the gym is going to full for the next couple of weeks with Resolutioners so I’ll probably run outside on days it isn’t too cold.

13 / 01

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I was completely blessed by a new job in my college town a few weeks ago. I was hired at a local bank and most of my bosses and coworkers are runners to the point where the CEO pays for some of our race entries! It’s probably the coolest thing EVER. On my first day I walked into my branch managers office and the first thing I saw was his rack of medals and his Route 66 marathon medal. He told me about how the company pays for local races and that’s how I came to be signed up for the Jesus Day 5K that was this morning.
Since there was exactly 13 days between my last half marathon on this 5K I didn’t train for it and it was a high, sub 40 minute 5K but it was a lot of fun and a decent course that I finished in 37:04 with a little walking mixed in.
I’m going to cut back on running this month, starting today since it’s December 4th, because I can feel myself getting burned out and I really want to pick it up in January for the spring races.
Now that I have a few races under my belt while I was focusing on finishing, I want to start working on my mile time so I can bust out some fast race times.

01 / 12

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Ahahahaha…well, I decided to run the half marathon. SURPRISE to me. I got onto their website to look up when to get my race packet and the first thing I saw was a picture of their pretty medals and I knew I had to do it. I didn’t have to beat my old time, I just want to finish and get my medal (and not waste all that money).

WELLLLL…I DID BEAT MY BEST TIME! It was only by 2 minutes and 28 seconds but considering I that only “training” I’ve done is run one mile about three separate times, I think that’s pretty goddamned AWESOME. I could have sworn I was behind my time but I was SO incredibly happy to see I beat it.

I learned my lesson the first time and took a cold bath first this time before eating or taking a hot bath. I was staying with my great grandmother and she has no shower, so bath it was.

The last 4 miles of that race were the hardest miles I’ve ever run. I just kept repeating what I read on some lady’s sign, “Pain is temporary, online race results are forever” and that kept me going. I also prayed quite a bit. I find prayer comes to mind when I’m busting my ass trying to get something done, but it was sincere for sure. I almost collapsed at the finish but I didn’t want someone to overreact and try to carry me to a med tent so I just stumbled through the foil blankets, let a nice lady put a heavy medal around my neck, guzzled some free Muscle Milk, and I called my mom to pick me up.

It’s been a great weekend…but I have a shit load of homework to do so the rest of the day is going to suck so bad.

Cat

PS - I also ran the 5K on Saturday and missed my best 5K time by 40 seconds. BOO! But I made up for it.

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18 / 11

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Made it official today: I’m not running the half marathon I paid approximately $80 to run. I’ve been busy as hell with my school and any free time is spent eating or sleeping like a mad woman. Instead I will wear my 80 dollar half marathon t-shirt whenever and where I want and I will just run the 5K on Saturday.
I’ll get over it. There are consequences to not training. I don’t want to die on the route or injure myself.
My life will only get worse. I changed my concentration from Pre-Physical Therapy to Pre-Medicine…so my life is going to melt away.

I’m going to try to keep some 5Ks going at LEAST and go for the OKC Memorial Half Marathon again in April 2013. I’m going to take a little break from running and work on circuit and flexibility more…something to cut some more stress.

15 / 11

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I don’t even remember the last time I posted on this. I’ve been busy to the point of exhaustion. I recently (as in yesterday) decided to drop my Russian minor because it was basically just for fun and I can’t afford to let it result in getting a B in one of my major courses. Russian has become a chore and trying to keep up with it while trying to keep As in my important classes was nearly making me physically ill. It’s a ridiculous relief to think about not having to do it anymore.

Running wise…uuuuuuuuugh. I’m behind here, too. My next race is a 5K on the 17th which will be OK, but then I have a half marathon THE NEXT DAY and I have so busy with school and work that I haven’t had time to run hardly at all.

I go to school five days a week then work all weekend. I’m trying to change my work schedule but it’s taking more than I thought.
…..I really need to be able to just fall asleep for 8 hours and not wake up to the world melting around me because I needed that time to do something else. I’ve had about 10X more all-nighters this semester than I have both previous semesters combined. I need to just restart my whole life.

I’m about to go run…hopefully I will be able to relax a little.

03 / 11

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I’ve been SO busy this past couple of weeks. My hard classes all had tests at the same time so I was cramming and dying and had no time to run for two weeks. Which is why my race today sucked a little bit. It was Oklahoma’s first all-woman’s race and there were almost a thousand women registered. It was a little warm but not the hottest race I’ve run. I didn’t train for it at all so I’m not surprised that I felt like I was dying and that my face was purple afterwards. I got a lot of awkward glances. It was a fun race though.

I’m picking up running again this week because my next half marathon is about a month and a half away. I’m freaking out a little. I really need to get back on my training and water regiments. This week is my week.

30 / 09

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I just signed up for the Route 66 5K and Half Marathon, both of which are in mid-November. I’m excited but I need to get on the ball because I’ve been extremely lazy this past week and just 5 days of being a lazy-ass has made me fee like crap. So, this Labor Day weekend I’m doing all the crap I need to get done for school and then I’ll do Insanity and run a bit. I need to build back up to a half marathon and I’d rather not wait until November to do that…

31 / 08

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