Welcome Back!

It has been a long time since I have posted on here.  I haven't really thought a whole lot about this blog.  I started it to document my journey into fitness and share a little bit about myself.  But, like with everything it became a chore to maintain.  I love reading blogs and I am a loyal reader of a bunch of running blogs.  I love how it seems effortless for them to share details of their lives.  I have never met them.  But, I feel like I know them better then some of my real friends. 

I have a few friends that I hold very close to me.  But, they do not know me very well.  I try to stay to myself as much as possible.  It is something I am working on.  I feel like my life is pretty much scheduled to the max with family and kid activities, my business, and my husband's business.  So, it is much easier to be friends with people in the blog world that I have never met in real life.  I can do it on my time.  Not always possible with real people.

But, the real friends I do have are great!  I have done a few more half marathons with them.  I am up to 4 total.  I just finished my 4th and bombed big time.  I was going for that big goal of getting closer to a sub-2 hour half.  I bombed in my eyes.  I did still PR by over a minute and a half.  But, it should have been no less then a four minute PR.

I have now signed up for my 5th half marathon.  It is one that I know I will not be able to PR at.  It is going to be hilly!  It's in Kentucky so it going to be really hilly!  Hill is a four letter word to us.  I have about 18 weeks to get strong enough to hang in there through these hills.   My main focus is going to be on strength training.  Something that I think I really benefited from over this past winter.  We had a very cold winter and running wasn't an option.  I turned to a few different at home workouts.  I think it really helped me maintain my fitness over the course of the winter.  I would like to start that again and continue with my running.  I have a hard time doing both.  I prefer to run so that is my first choice.  Plus, it is hard for me to do my indoor workouts at 5 am.  I don't want to wake anyone up.  We have a small house.  I'm think of seeing if my running partners would be interested in mixing it up a couple days a week.  I am interested to see how my running is effected by these new workouts.

I will keep up posted on what my plan is starting next week.  I am going to try to post on here once a week to keep a log of how things go. 

Glad to be back on the blog!!

We will see how long it last!!

:)