If you want to do something in your life you've never done, you'll have to do what you've never done.

About Me

I am a wife and mother of three. I started running in December 2009 after watching the Biggest Loser finalists run a marathon. I joined GoRun, a running group in Lake Charles, LA, to train for a marathon. In January 2011, I ran the Chevron Houston marathon, my very first marathon. Since then, I have run several marathons and numerous half marathons. In February 2011, I ran the Rouge-Orleans as a member of a six-person team. As we would meet the solo runners, members of my team would comment how crazy the solo runners were. However, in my mind I kept thinking that I could do that with the right training. After talking with my running coach, we set up a plan so that I would run the Rouge-Orleans solo in 2015. In the meantime, I would like to do endurance races. After much research, I determined to do the Mississippi 50-miler as my official first ultra race. (In 2013 I'm doing Rouge-Orleans as a three-person team.) Thus starts my journey....

Monday, September 24, 2012

My Running Coach, Phyllis Aswell, and Me

My usual marathon training schedule has me running around 3-4 miles on Monday, 4-5 miles on Tuesday, 3-4 miles on Wednesday, 4-5 miles on Thursday, rest on Friday, long mileage on Saturday, and rest on Sunday. Relentless Forward Progress’ schedule for the 50-miler has me resting on Monday, increased mileage Tuesday through Thursday, resting Friday, long mileage on Saturday and 5 miles on Sunday. This past week I missed my Thursday’s run so I ran 6 miles Friday, 10 miles Saturday and 4 miles Sunday (shortage of 1 mile and a pace of 13:37), my first Sunday run.  Needless to say, I was quite disappointed in my Sunday run.  I don’t know if it was the fact that I had not rested Friday or that my body is not accustomed to running the day after a long run even though the long run was only 10 miles or even that I had started after the sun came up.  But, I choose to look at it as, “when you start at the bottom, there’s no place to go but up!” - - RELENTLESS FORWARD PROGRESS!
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