Franny Runs - Week Sixteen!

Week sixteen and the miles are piling up. I figure I have run a little over 500 miles by now. Hee hee. Could have be to Vegas by now. I seem to be running slower each week though. I think I am having problems keeping up with the nutrition. I can not get enough calories in when I do the long runs.

This week I will run 24 miles. We do our first Double Digit run Saturday with my TNT group. In two weeks I run 13.1 again in the Long Beach Marathon. Looking forward to that.

I am just having fun!

Franny Runs - Week Fifteen

Wow I am on week fifteen of running. It seems like yesterday that I started this lunacy! No I actually really love it. I was just talking to a co worker who said she can tell the days I do not run, I am not in as good a mood as the days that I do run. Interesting.

Well I found out yesterday that my surgery has been approved. I hope it is scheduled soon. I do not want to miss too much of my training of the Marathon in January. I figure I will be out for about 4 weeks from running. I will walk instead to keep up my miles. I still have plenty of time to make up what I miss.

I seem to be running slower. I guess that is because the miles are ramping up. I am running about 25 miles a week now. That is up about 10 miles from the past. I also noticed that I am not sweating as much. I think this is a sign of dehydration. I am going to try to get in more fluids in my day. It is so hard to eat enough to keep up with the calories I am burning, and now drink enough to keep up with my sweat! Oh well it is a learning process.

Frannyp Runs Week Fourteen - Long Run!

I ran with my TNT team this morning in Irvine. We ran 7 miles. I was able to finish, but went really slow. I am not feeling so good today. I think I may be coming down with a cold or something. I hope not, I can not afford the time to recover.

Today, Sunday is rest day. I am relaxing and maybe take the dog for a walk later.

Franny Runs - Week Fourteen Day Three

Ran 6 miles today. It is weird that the 6 miles today felt shorter than the 2 miles yesterday. Hmmm. I have to keep reminding myself that only 14 weeks ago I had trouble running for 2 minutes at a time. Today I ran for 1 hour and 12 minutes! I guess I have come a long way in 14 weeks.

I really love it. I am now at a point where I get a lot of thinking and planing done on my runs. I am thinking of more than just how am I going to take my next breath!

Franny Runs - Week Fourteen!

Wow! I am on week fourteen of running! I am not having a good week though. Had a colonoscopy on Monday so my 6 mile run on Tuesday was really slow! But at least I was able to get through it.

I am still in need of support for my January Marathon for Leukemia. If you feel the need to support those with blood cancers please feel free to sponsor me!

I will be running with my Team In Training group on Saturday, we are doing 7 miles! I just really love the running, it is making me healthier, I can tell. In fact when they hooked me up to the heart monitor on Monday my heart rate was 48! It used to be 110 when I was heavy.

Thanks to all of my friends and family for your support!

It is Week 13!

I am in week 13 of running! WooHoo! It is now habit I think. It feels like it, cause i sure miss it when I can not run.

Franny Runs - Back on Track!

I was able to run 5 miles pain free today and at a good pace. I am very excited. I am still icing the knee just to be safe. I am also doing a lot of exercises to strengthen the muscles around the knee.

It is just so nice to be out an running again.

This is week 12 or is it 13? I will have to check my calendar.

Franny Runs - First Injury Recovering!

I was able to run 3 miles today pain free! That makes me so happy. It has really been depressing not being able to run for a whole week. Yikes, you would think that I was some sort of athlete or something! Hee Hee, I just have fallen in love with running. I guess it is because I could never do it before, and now it is happening!

Tomorrow I run 5 miles and 6 miles on Saturday. I am like a kid at Christmas, I just can't wait to get out there and do the miles! What a dork I am. But it makes Franny happy! And that is what matters right?

Franny Runs - First Injury!

Well I am off for a couple weeks with a knee injury. It is very painful to run on my left knee. I was told to not run for a couple weeks. I am supposed to do "pool running". So that is what I am doing to strengthen the leg muscles.

I am also looking at the possibility of having surgery on my abdomen. It seems there is something there that is causing all of the pain I have been having. I see a specialist tomorrow and then they will decided to do a surgery or not.

Ugh, that will be another couple weeks off of running.