Get Back on the Train!

This past week I really slacked on my running. We did our long run of 8 miles on Monday and then I only did one other run. Eight miles was tough and my knees were pretty achy for the next couple of weeks. So I think it was kind of good that I took the rest of the week to kind of recover. So this past week's mileage is a bit lower than it should be.

Mon: 8 miles
Thurs: 2 miles

Total: 10 miles

Today we took Penny to the Matteson Trail and ran 3 miles. It was a good run. Running with Penny kind of pushes me to run faster...or should I say Penny pulls me. My avgerage pace was 10:27 mins/mile. I thought that was great. The last time I ran at the Matteson Trail was for a Halloween 5K and I finished in 36 mins. So I've shaved off 4-5 mins of my time. I plan on running a 5K this coming Saturday, hopefully I'll be able to run in it the same pace I ran today!

I have to get back on this running train and stick with my training schedule. The half marathon will be here before we know it!